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Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 16, 2008, 7:14 PM: |
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The scope, the sheer size and complexity, the utter dynamic of nature and a life. It's too much to take in. It's too much to hold in one's head or give due in one's heart. The spirit cannot handle the magnitude of its own life. |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 16, 2008, 7:16 PM: |
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Crumpled brown photo smudged partial memories, creased Last time I loved you. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 16, 2008, 7:18 PM: |
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__________ Tiny blood bottles set in rows with messy corks. Red sunlight captured. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 16, 2008, 7:23 PM: |
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The sound of one hand brushing spirals down your back. Musky-sweet love scents. ___________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 16, 2008, 7:30 PM: |
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Choking a curved heart, remnant loves of yestertimes. Can't breath the shadows. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 16, 2008, 7:37 PM: |
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Recycled travails, pains of the fathers repeat. Pains of mothers too. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Happiness said Jan 16, 2008, 10:28 PM: |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 17, 2008, 4:44 PM: |
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Woke from bawdy dreams, splayed, delayed, crusty and frayed. “Oh hell, not again !” __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 17, 2008, 5:25 PM: |
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Dude from the future, just glanced my way, said “Wassup?” Just stoppin' for gas. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 17, 2008, 5:28 PM: |
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Don't got no time, no. Gotta keep movin, keep on. Wind's a comin', wind. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 17, 2008, 5:33 PM: |
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Come a cruel, cruel blow, 'n darkness, fast gonna come. Just me 'n the road. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 17, 2008, 5:43 PM: |
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__________ Don't tell me nothin', them whispers in the river. I listen them plenty. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 17, 2008, 5:44 PM: |
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__________ Git out da way, hey! 'taint no time, no time ta waste. Runnin', runnin' straight. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 17, 2008, 5:46 PM: |
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__________ S'pose I'll stop for now, gotta messa hurt comin' on. Messa hurt comin'. Yeah. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 17, 2008, 5:53 PM: |
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__________ Cracklin' fire of dreams, too much heat for monkey meat. Time? Wash gone the flames! __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 18, 2008, 9:46 PM: |
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___________ Blue-hot steely clamp Thor's fist wrapped around jelled meat Can't think, can't think, can't … __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Happiness said Jan 18, 2008, 11:57 PM: |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 19, 2008, 2:22 AM: |
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Great suggestions Happiness. Thinking about it, I'm a great admirer of Mark Twain and his use of dialect in his writing. It's the way my mother's people talk and I'm somewhat familiar with its rythms, flavors and colors. I have a rather “clean” midwestern accent but sometimes lapse into “country talk” - especially when on the phone with Mom. Also, as I mentioned to you elsewhere, I loved Cormac McCarthy's “The Road”, Stephen King's “The Stand” and “Cell” and those type of books for their post-apocalyptic imagery. For some reason, these stories inspire me. Cormac especially captures the utter despair and struggle of living a day at a time in a dark and menacing landscape where horizons seem to only make things worse. I love the dystopic genre and can easily imagine myself in the shoes of “The Road” 's narrator. |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 19, 2008, 1:17 AM: |
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Used ta git up quick. Now, I sink fast - git up slow. Plain sucks ta git old. __________ I'm sure where snow goes - It's the rocks, stones; they steal it, keep it for themselves. __________ Starlight burns tired eyes, dim harbingers of ill winds. Can't see the beauty. __________ Like a huge starved tick, I gorge on scrumptious pages. Books, my pale victims. __________ In spellbound moongaze, waking mole knocks at my shoe. “Hey, get off my porch!” __________ Devils have no horns and angels have no haloes. Just the opposite. __________ Laying on of hands to heal a forlorn hazel. Returned the favor. __________ Leaves in my basket Maple's lost children to keep. Too much lost as is. __________ Tall broken cedar must have sent a branch to knock. Couldn't come himself. __________ Blood rose petals, skipping past tired, mute gravestones. Play, then fly away. __________ Built a museum to house life's missing pieces. “Closed For Maintenance.” __________ Steamy espresso dark chocolate, extra sweet. Rapture in a cup!” __________ Wounds the martial sun those diffident like the moon. Soft echoes of stars. __________ Please - you're boring me with your pretending to truth. You're an open book. __________ Lose all pretentions, I'd rather see you naked. Love sees through wrinkles. __________ Love's shadow, tricked out in cheap-frosted memories. Go away. Please, go. __________ It's the other way - Angels want to corrupt us, Devils offer light. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 19, 2008, 1:54 AM: |
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Devils in dem hills, sleep 'til sunlight's shadow fills 'n day takes its pills. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 19, 2008, 2:07 AM: |
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These shoes got voices; scrip … scrip-plop … scrip … scrip-plop … scrip Soul's done gone from one. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 19, 2008, 2:13 AM: |
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Clouds stole the moonlight. How 'ma gonna find my way? Whispers. Rain whispers. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 20, 2008, 2:45 AM: |
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Love's luminous cloud fingered sparkles of bliss like - puffed dandelions. __________ Games intimated in morning's stay-in-bed eyes. Over here, you minx! __________ Sun, not quite deceased, puts face on maramalade fools, then fades to cobalt. __________ Unwelcome sunshine barges into my nightmare. Was jus' gettin' good. __________ Cast-off blackberries; first meager grub in three days. My lucky number. __________ Parting - searing words, streak of mercy in her hair, vanish in the rain. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 23, 2008, 7:56 PM: |
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_____ Rough rhymes discarded, unpolished dreams left for ants. Curiosities. _____ Ants check my spelling nightly, as fires turn to dreams - An amusing kindness. _____ Think carefully, ant - this enticing tiled plain is guarded by cats. _____ Consumed in passions, love's breath, your peaches revealed. Line of ants applauds. _____ Strolling in cold woods, your harsh last words warming me. Sympathetic ants. _____ My love, oh, my love just time and space between us - unfleshed love within. _____ Moon through the forest crowd, winks at fairies, “Come flitter!” Come keep me from dreams. _____ Decompressed edges, overfed terrors imagined - relaxed to breed new coils. _____ Times will not wink out. Ends race like full eclipses - a wall of shadow. _____ Pole of relative inaccessibility - peace, farthest from you. _____ A crowd of people - puzzles withing dense puzzles, Falling, pulling loose. _____ It's worth cracking knees - tired lovemaking's why I live. What else could there be? _____ You prey for escape, but shallow habit is missed when it's all you have. _____ What you do not want can seem austere next to dreams, … but austere has place. _____ Our depth of spirit brings depth to godless heavens. We “god” the old stars. _____ Dream Earth. Sleep land, sleep. Rest 'til season calls your name. Sleep land - dream Earth dreams. _____ Sins need confessing. Only life presses report. Waste no time on “gods.” _____ It's lies that age you, not sliding of days to nights. Lies. Sharp, ripping lies. _____ Your legs wrapped in love are no small moral lessons. Love the flesh. Flesh love. _____ Can't we speak of it all? What feeds the flesh? What burns away? Why just half the tale? _____ We impersonate. We claim angels among us. We are meat - that's all. _____ Unencompassed life - the spilling flesh and spirit, evolved DNA. _____ Taste for solitude, I venture into strange thoughts. Coiled spoils, far from you. _____ Trouble planning days - fogged minds can't read calendars. ' rather read my love. _____ Chapters in her eyes, her hands - complex metaphors. Novels in her parts. _____ The whole mess of her scrapes me from remnant shadows, feeds me wild nethers. _____ Graces extracted, what's left of the human meat? Grace unexpected. _____ Time fades from skies. Skeletons called “memory” cool in the night's breeze. _____ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 24, 2008, 1:35 AM: |
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_____ Meat pretending grace, puerile ministers, kneel, pray. Grace cannot be forced. _____ Smelling the storm build, I brace for beasty mind winds. Fool chance is unkind. _____ Marionette threads binding one life another - masters play masters. _____ Mossy solitudes - stone poetry carved from dust, have lives of their own. _____ My love, facades stripped, I am come - “La luna del … cacciatore.” _____ Memory's dead leaves - Come stampede! Come to my blade! Be slain, be nothing! _____ Lost to Alice worlds, making faces in water. They make faces back. _____ Burning chrysalis an ember of thoughts unripe. Words, lines tossed away. _____ Saved some cherry leaves - your favorite, so I'm told. My love wrapped in red. _____ Full moon hung too bright, her presumptions sass my night and chilled breath despoils. _____ How quaint your favors. Comes your jasmine's fairy breath, comes Pan's fawny musk. _____ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 25, 2008, 12:37 AM: |
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_____ If I stop somewhere, stuck mid-breath, wide-eyed and bronzed, wipe the drool, will ya? _____ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 25, 2008, 12:38 AM: |
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_____ Go straight a lifetime, hang a sharp left at the end. You'll see what's comin'. _____ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 25, 2008, 12:40 AM: |
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_____ Stooped in the mirror, can't see himself anymore - no upstart dimples. _____ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 25, 2008, 12:42 AM: |
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_____ It's an irony; simple to find complex to find simple again. _____ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 25, 2008, 12:43 AM: |
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_____ Didja buy it, true? Ain't no one can own you, sure, … do what drugs you like. _____ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 25, 2008, 12:44 AM: |
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_____ Took a toke o' day 'n smoked him toke fast away. Now, night she comin', Hey!. _____ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 25, 2008, 12:45 AM: |
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_____ Another time reveals and mind steals another rhyme 'til time left behind. _____ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 25, 2008, 12:46 AM: |
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_____ The weeping of boys who ought be allowed to weep; Earth could use the tears. _____ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 4:39 PM: |
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__________ Tried scrying futures in the shine of a bald head - quick-buffed prophecies. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 4:42 PM: |
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__________ Graying fading mane, precious only in madness, you'd sell souls to keep. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 4:44 PM: |
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__________ I will adore you. Disregard your self-disgust. It's my head, not yours. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 4:45 PM: |
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__________ Barbarous coward! You, who will not own your life, sneer when I take mine. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 4:47 PM: |
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__________ Milky mist forest frosty sinuous path melts to dreams and whispers. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 4:48 PM: |
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__________ Traveler in time strays from his vortex briefly to wink and move on. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 4:48 PM: |
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__________ Seeming from nowhere, raggedy man and his cart wandering through time. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 4:50 PM: |
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__________ “Have ta go naked; It hurts,” said the future droid. Yeah, ain't it the truth. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 4:52 PM: |
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__________ Played-out tracks of dust, too little meat, too much bone. Wrinkles on my hand. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 4:53 PM: |
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__________ Got words on a page; pinched out some few with bruises. Can't stop the bleeding. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 4:54 PM: |
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__________ Hey, pig, what's the time? Got the time, pig? Any time? “Ain't no time, monkey.” __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 4:57 PM: |
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__________ Disgruntled angels, spoilin' the monkey madness with their own damned brand. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 4:59 PM: |
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__________ 'dem hands got no folds; been used too little, or jus' ain't no hands at all. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 5:00 PM: |
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__________ Scratched in empty plates, fingerprints of shadow meals, sadly, … forgotten. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 5:02 PM: |
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__________ Ain't you learnt nothin' kid? Life blows in, gives you a spin - you bes' learn ta dance! __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 5:06 PM: |
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__________ 'dis box ain't purty, but you missin' da dam' point - Ain't purty warms ya. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 5:07 PM: |
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__________ Chickens on holiday jus' strollin' in for coffee. “Three bucks, featherhead!” __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 5:09 PM: |
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__________ Keep blowing kisses. Though love's gone, heart-blown kisses … got somewhere ta go. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 5:11 PM: |
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__________ Young wad of tissue leaps and cartwheels in chance winds; Trash Nouveau Ballet. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 5:13 PM: |
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__________ Day may never come - at least, may not come for some - and shadow undone. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 5:14 PM: |
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__________ Dreamed of a future; an unwelcome queer dream, … an unlikely future. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 5:17 PM: |
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__________ Moon's subtle cutouts silhouettes snipped from darkness - I and trees remain. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 5:18 PM: |
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__________ In the tops of trees I thought I could see, you, me … Detritus of dreams. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 5:22 PM: |
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__________ Your sanity's ill; had my fill of your ill will. Be silent. Be still. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 5:25 PM: |
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__________ Straight, flat, square, plain - yech! Your purity is hellish. Heaven's a real mess! _________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 5:28 PM: |
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__________ Perambulating, pompous pertinacity philosophizing. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 5:29 PM: |
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__________ I ain't movin' down your one-lane road; one-lane roads ain't movin' down me. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 5:31 PM: |
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__________ Ivory maiden crowned in frosty black blossoms dreams of greener fates. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 26, 2008, 5:34 PM: |
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__________ Lavender whispers deception scents in your eyes sounds of smoky lies. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 27, 2008, 2:41 AM: |
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__________ Prodigious power to set heavens to dancing - in dragonfly wings. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 27, 2008, 2:44 AM: |
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__________ Trek to tomorrow as though heading into fog - no reason to fear. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 27, 2008, 2:49 AM: |
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__________ Comfortable lives, minds hiding in thin boxes, miss the fullest snows. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 27, 2008, 2:53 AM: |
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__________ Peeling frosted leaves to birth the day's eloquence - leaves and leaves to go. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 27, 2008, 2:56 AM: |
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__________ Dead-end trances abhored traded for trances preferred. Flows the stream of dreams. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 27, 2008, 2:58 AM: |
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__________ Life freshly leavened; wondrous once-in-the-'verse bloom - just like its mother. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 27, 2008, 3:01 AM: |
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__________ Could we have it wrong? Does the light give us shadow, or shadows the light? __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 27, 2008, 3:04 AM: |
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__________ I can know nothing but what the water whispers or its breadth reveals. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 27, 2008, 3:08 AM: |
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__________ I can hear nothing in shadows of cobalt lakes lost in scaled breezes. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 27, 2008, 3:10 AM: |
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__________ This is not haiku, but only words pretending to a real moment. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 27, 2008, 3:13 AM: |
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__________ There are deep faces you can slip and fall into … and keep on falling. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 27, 2008, 3:14 AM: |
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__________ An owl jus' doin' what owls jus' do, an' me I'm jus' doin' too. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 27, 2008, 3:16 AM: |
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__________ Climbed outta my skin to look at what's happenin' - climbed back in again. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 27, 2008, 3:17 AM: |
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__________ Walking a long path, I once chanced to meet myself on the long walk back. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 27, 2008, 3:19 AM: |
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__________ Fog-laced sun cuts a half-baked shadow behind me. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Jan 27, 2008, 3:21 AM: |
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__________ Gull in the water, staring at his reflection. “Who you lookin' at?” __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Feb 9, 2008, 2:27 AM: |
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A simple uncertain smile - a wish within a fear. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Feb 9, 2008, 2:29 AM: |
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__________ Too many moments spread thick over too few hours - it's almost bedtime. __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Feb 9, 2008, 2:30 AM: |
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__________ Abandon illusions of station in man or stone - there is no “stillness.” __________ |
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Re: Just pieces ...Naumadd said Feb 9, 2008, 2:31 AM: |
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