Topic: Ramblings
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Wed 01/26/11 06:23 AM
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Wed 01/26/11 06:18 PM
out of hapinstance, I stumbled upon your tributaries
these flowing word ripples through the spaces
ingestions of a moment's depth
a frowning smile melds with that smiling frown
undecided still, unstill decided to let it be known
the things that been shown, rock, smoke, slide into home.

I'll be check'n back
and thanks for the journey's through your words.
:thumbsup:

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Wed 01/26/11 06:48 PM

In our old shipwrecked days there was an hour,
When in the firelight steadily aglow,
Joined slackly, we beheld the red chasm grow
Among the clicking coals. Our library-bower
That eve was lef to us: and hushed we sat
As lovers to whom Time is whispering,
From sudden-opened doors we heard them sing:
The nodding elders mixed good wine with chat.
Well knew we the Life's greatest treasure lay
With us, and of it was our talk. "Ah, yes!
Love dies!" I said: I never thought it less.
She yearned to me that sentence to unsay.
Then when the fire domed blackening, I found
Her cheek was against my kiss, and swift
Up the sharp scale of sobs her breast did lift:-
Now I am haunted by that taste!that sound!
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti


This poem is actually by George Meredith.

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Wed 01/26/11 07:24 PM
Your voice a gentle calm, every write a quiet eloquence. The clarity of vision you express leaves one to think between the lines. An old soul, a young girl, a longing for what is, what isn't and an ever present thought of what could be. I loved all your work.flowerforyou

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Thu 01/27/11 08:27 PM
I just wanted to say that your words are spellbinding Red. You are a delightful soul and I'm thinking wiser beyond your years :smile: . I'm on page three of this thread and I look forward to tomorrow. You have a calmness that I have not seen but of a very few people in my lifetime. You are truly divine! God Bless.

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Fri 01/28/11 05:07 AM
Edited by LAMom on Fri 01/28/11 05:08 AM

It was just yesterday,
fresh as waking, you were
dripping on my mind, leaning
on a sliver of sunlight slicing
my every thought into two;
My senses, denuded, divided
between keeping a book waiting,
and waiting some more.
You have this way
of ending our dialogues,
or suspending it,
like you often have,
with a flashing of teeth,
a splatter of rainbows,
and a throaty laugh
into my last breathless note.

If I inhaled again, and I
must have,
I knew, in some sick way,
I would have a chance
at ending a conversation,
on my own terms.
But, unmanned, then and now;
having you, and then losing
you, and waiting
too very damn long,
or insisting on control
a tad too strong,
or jumping in too fast – I never
could tell.
If I forego breathing now,
and close my eyes from seeing
rainbows again,
for a minute, or two,
I might yet realize
a greater pain.

But I’m human enough
for air, for another hope
at another exchange, down the road,
where the perhaps always lurks,
when winning and losing
don’t mean as much
as watching you
light life into me again,
simply by being.


Your light shines once more, the void has passed and the heart sways to and fro... let the sun warm you and all shall be dear one.. all shall be.. soar sweet angel... soar:heart:

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Fri 01/28/11 05:58 AM

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smooched

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Fri 01/28/11 06:04 AM

out of hapinstance, I stumbled upon your tributaries
these flowing word ripples through the spaces
ingestions of a moment's depth
a frowning smile melds with that smiling frown
undecided still, unstill decided to let it be known
the things that been shown, rock, smoke, slide into home.

I'll be check'n back
and thanks for the journey's through your words.
:thumbsup:


Thank you for stopping by, for taking the time to read. :)

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Fri 01/28/11 06:28 AM

Your voice a gentle calm, every write a quiet eloquence. The clarity of vision you express leaves one to think between the lines. An old soul, a young girl, a longing for what is, what isn't and an ever present thought of what could be. I loved all your work.flowerforyou


Oh my...I sincerely am left speechless. Thank you.

Just when I thought nobody sees what has always been written in all those implied spaces, people like you come by. :)

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Fri 01/28/11 06:32 AM


It was just yesterday,
fresh as waking, you were
dripping on my mind, leaning
on a sliver of sunlight slicing
my every thought into two;
My senses, denuded, divided
between keeping a book waiting,
and waiting some more.
You have this way
of ending our dialogues,
or suspending it,
like you often have,
with a flashing of teeth,
a splatter of rainbows,
and a throaty laugh
into my last breathless note.

If I inhaled again, and I
must have,
I knew, in some sick way,
I would have a chance
at ending a conversation,
on my own terms.
But, unmanned, then and now;
having you, and then losing
you, and waiting
too very damn long,
or insisting on control
a tad too strong,
or jumping in too fast – I never
could tell.
If I forego breathing now,
and close my eyes from seeing
rainbows again,
for a minute, or two,
I might yet realize
a greater pain.

But I’m human enough
for air, for another hope
at another exchange, down the road,
where the perhaps always lurks,
when winning and losing
don’t mean as much
as watching you
light life into me again,
simply by being.


Your light shines once more, the void has passed and the heart sways to and fro... let the sun warm you and all shall be dear one.. all shall be.. soar sweet angel... soar:heart:


LAMom, as always, you make me smile by your mere presence. :)

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Sat 01/29/11 07:39 AM
Edited by red_lace on Sat 01/29/11 07:48 AM
For Matt. When we talked about Nibiru. :)

We are leaves in the full bloom
of summer, destined
for autumn glory;
surreal in discourse, we dance
to wind and half-remembered patterns
of spring-time and dreams,
and first kisses.

We have learned to speak truth
with the grey,
seen the lie in black,
discerned deceit in the white.
We know life as it unfolds for us,
for others, and we know ourselves
unwhole,
except in the company of strangers
equally irresolute.

What I know of leaves
I know in the grip of winter-chill,
when, brown and sere,
they sleep crushed in snow.
Mortal, I know, they are;
marked for death as we,
doomed so as early as the first
breath of spring.
But knowing that; I do not
begrudge those times
when mortal coil first wakened me
to wanting infinity;
everytime a robin sang,
everytime I could walk,
with an open mouth,
tiptoeing between raindrops.

The grey has never danced well
for me, or I have never
danced for it;
I do not know the difference.

All I know, now,
between your poetry and mine,
is a longing to sit beside you,
in some place without questions.
There is such a place,
my hopes tell me; so long as I
can find you,
perhaps, after summer and before
autumn. Definitely, before
winter; when the dance between
wind and leaf and rain
becomes
death.

We are summer’s leaves
doomed to
fall.
But before then:
there is moonlight on water,
glitter-motes dancing
through sunbeams;
the taste of dewdrops,
as they dripped, blazing
new trails down our cheeks;
the joy of the summer-wind
before its winter face;
the delicious tartness of the before
before it becomes after.

Bitter-sweet,
like life, before it
dies.

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Sat 01/29/11 08:10 AM
Edited by Torgo70 on Sat 01/29/11 08:21 AM
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The shelter I'm digging for its impending arrival has room for two.:wink:

heartsfire81's photo
Sat 01/29/11 10:23 AM
Heart that breaks
Like thin ice,
Love's mistake
Emotion's vice

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Sat 01/29/11 05:43 PM

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The shelter I'm digging for its impending arrival has room for two.:wink:


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It's a date then. bigsmile

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Sat 01/29/11 05:44 PM

Heart that breaks
Like thin ice,
Love's mistake
Emotion's vice


Heartsfire, there is truth in that. Thank you for sharing and welcome. :)

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Sat 01/29/11 06:34 PM
Let every voice, have it's freedom's choice.

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Sat 01/29/11 06:35 PM
Love,
is the power.
that shall
always,
tower..

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Sat 01/29/11 06:38 PM
Never say goodbye,
say,until then.
For we never know,
when our life may end.

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Sat 01/29/11 08:15 PM
thank you red_lace your poems are very deep

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Tue 02/01/11 10:53 PM
Edited by red_lace on Tue 02/01/11 11:52 PM