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[aid] => mick
[title] => The River
[time] => 2004-09-07 20:37:54
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[bodytext] => Brave or Foolish is the man That swims across the river, Not wide, And yet, The current takes him ever farther; Treading to rest He swallows some water, A gasp revels his swim, to nowhere Manically wondering, which is the closer side…? As he doubts, Comes a shout that decides; pulses from his heart Churn the water deep, rip tide at his feet, tear At his air to breathe, His body weak, despair sinks through his body, the spinal shock; Limp and solid as a skipping stones last hop; He bellows to the side he never realized… Plundering deep, a voice hear’d into sleep; Awaking alas, dead to be sure, the rapture from heaven blinds his first sight, casted out by the shadow; An Angel or Demon? In a kiss recollects a lover The last side he ever thought to find her; But alas his bravery, foolish At the start, Has ended in the arms of his rescuer… [comments] => 3 [counter] => 216 [topic] => 2 [informant] => Eicherus [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 8 [ratings] => 2 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => LovePoetry )
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