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Topic: "Before 'it was for the best'"
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Voix_de_la_Mer
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posted November 18, 2020 07:44 AM
  
I hadn't written any poetry in ages (was focusing on song-writing) but I wrote this from musings on the passing of time, how some things endure and some don't. ------------------------------------------- Before 'it was for the best' I flee to the starlings at the sea on the edge of winter,
stumble through slush, sand and needles of light.
The sky is moving, shadows
jag in and out of the fog,
the swell grinds at the wall.
A stiff clutch of roses clings
to the omnipotent
arm of a memorial bench. An elderly couple push along the front, wind
slapping their anoraks. They anchor
under a scintillating column.
His slow hand
haloes her face with fur
and sweeps her silver waves inside. An old, folding couple
moored in each other.
Gasping-up the world because they still have time.
My eyes fossilise them. I am a tundra
circling someone else's baby.
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Randall
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posted November 19, 2020 11:39 AM
You should write more often.IP: Logged |
mirage29
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posted November 19, 2020 12:45 PM
Love that!!!!  fits your newest 'photo' thread in a way
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- http://www.linda-goodman.com/ubb/Forum25/HTML/005636.html And coincidently,
Chanterelle's offering
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Fight, Flight or Camouflage
- http://www.linda-goodman.com/ubb/Forum17/HTML/003561.html Glad you're back among us.  IP: Logged |
Ayelet
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posted November 19, 2020 05:45 PM
Wonderful. I join Randall and mirage. Keep writing.IP: Logged |
Voix_de_la_Mer
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posted November 20, 2020 05:44 AM
Uch, thanks everyone for your kind responses. That's weird Mirage, there must be a theme in the air! Although I wrote this poem at the beginning of the year. IP: Logged |
Chanterelle
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posted November 20, 2020 07:45 AM
This is so beautiful... thanks for sharing! It reminds me of a moment I had not long ago, watching this elderly couple in a shoe store... it took this guy forever to lower himself to the ground so he could help his wife tie her shoes, but he did it at least 3 different times —I was a little bit awestruck, to be honest. And a little bit sad.IP: Logged |
Voix_de_la_Mer
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posted November 22, 2020 11:45 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Chanterelle:
This is so beautiful... thanks for sharing! It reminds me of a moment I had not long ago, watching this elderly couple in a shoe store... it took this guy forever to lower himself to the ground so he could help his wife tie her shoes, but he did it at least 3 different times —I was a little bit awestruck, to be honest. And a little bit sad.
YES! It was exactly one of those moments Chanterelle. Thank you for your kind comments IP: Logged |
Randall
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posted November 22, 2020 01:17 PM
Well-said.IP: Logged |
mirage29
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posted November 26, 2020 10:19 AM
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Chanterelle
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posted November 30, 2020 12:44 PM
A river of starlings went over my head this morning, and I remembered the name of this awesome video. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iRNqhi2ka9k
Up next: my own ancient poem with starlings in it, and finally a decent title (those almost always come to me way late).IP: Logged |
Randall
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posted January 13, 2021 09:57 AM
I bet that (starlings) was majestic to see.IP: Logged |
Randall
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posted July 17, 2021 09:58 AM
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Randall
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posted August 09, 2021 04:00 PM
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Randall
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posted September 04, 2021 11:15 AM
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Randall
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posted January 02, 2022 02:44 PM
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Randall
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posted January 20, 2022 04:25 PM
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Randall
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posted February 01, 2022 07:38 PM
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Randall
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posted February 17, 2022 11:49 AM
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Virgo-AriesArtist
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posted June 30, 2022 04:52 PM
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Randall
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posted July 01, 2022 11:13 AM
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