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Array ( [sid] => 127270 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => Don't Give Up The Living Ghost [time] => 2006-10-23 00:30:21 [hometext] => This is my second entry after reading many poems well into this night. I have found this site as a source of great inspirations. I look forward to a 'critical mass' of sharing. [bodytext] =>

Have you fire?
Stoke it, stoke it.
Flames in quandary still grow
flickering into pronouns of the self:
you, me, I, we, us, them.

Do the labor; strain but temper.
Give birth to the soon to be cold one.

Unmoving Stillness: inner world off.
The double does not sense but it does
relate. Eyesight with out sockets,
ear-sense without lobes,
Taste without throat;
the living ghost!

Feel ever so lightly with our delicate
paper flesh as butter-moths and dragon
flies and lighter still feel as helium
in the ground.

Take time and space, spread them wide
as one thing: the present.

Be just! How quick it all goes!

AJPIII [comments] => 3 [counter] => 280 [topic] => 46 [informant] => yangdantien [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 11 [ratings] => 3 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => didactic )

Don't Give Up The Living Ghost

Contributed by yangdantien on Monday, 23rd October 2006 @ 12:30:21 AM in AEST
Topic: didactic

Have you fire?
Stoke it, stoke it.
Flames in quandary still grow
flickering into pronouns of the self:
you, me, I, we, us, them.

Do the labor; strain but temper.
Give birth to the soon to be cold one.

Unmoving Stillness: inner world off.
The double does not sense but it does
relate. Eyesight with out sockets,
ear-sense without lobes,
Taste without throat;
the living ghost!

Feel ever so lightly with our delicate
paper flesh as butter-moths and dragon
flies and lighter still feel as helium
in the ground.

Take time and space, spread them wide
as one thing: the present.

Be just! How quick it all goes!

AJPIII

Copyright © yangdantien ... [ 2006-10-23 00:30:21]
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Re: Don't Give Up The Living Ghost (User Rating: 1 )
by emystar on Monday, 23rd October 2006 @ 12:50:24 AM AEST
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Welcome to our global family here.

I have found this site as a source of great inspirations.
Your comment about our site here is just about the sweetest thing I've heard any one say. Well now we're family and you are one of us.
luv, huggs, smiles,
emy
Great writing!

Re: Don't Give Up The Living Ghost (User Rating: 1 )
by Former_Member on Monday, 23rd October 2006 @ 08:39:13 AM AEST
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Well thought out and with great depth.
This piece seems to fan the flames of inspiration itself.
I hope you enjoy it here at YPDC and be welcome!

Re: Don't Give Up The Living Ghost (User Rating: 1 )
by Former_Member on Monday, 5th March 2007 @ 08:54:01 PM AEST
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AJ .. been sifting through the back pages of your
introduction to YPDC .. and wow .. this is wonderful.
I agree with Jecks .. what a piece of inspiration.

I adore the last line .. incredibly profound and so very
interchangeable with many a situation and/or circumstance.

Your capacity for deep thought never ceases to amaze
my friend. Beautiful work ~

~Breezy

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