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[aid] => mick
[title] => The Last Swan
[time] => 2009-07-29 09:35:46
[hometext] => Was feeling quite emotional when I wrote this and I hope that it may move some of you the way that it moved me to write it.A sad story but sometimes sad is how we all feel
[bodytext] => Even when the last swan had left the lake, iced over by winter's fingers I waited for you by the edge of that glass expanse Where skeletal trees stood on high hills either side Stripped bare, exposed to the harsh northern wind There I walked alone, through rolling morning mist That bleached out the miles I knew stood between us My mind flashed images of unity as the snow began to fall While hands held on to nothing but themselves to stave the chill White dapples in the low meadows where my feet had walked so many times Now covered in the carpet that wills all to sleep On the ridge the pines still whisper hope like generals outflanked We share the bond of prisoner and both await our fate There is liberty now and inner calm, as I know you will not come I will sleep tonight on this pebbled shore, no pillow for my head When they find me in the morning in my blanket made of white They will think of me as victim, I will think of me as free [comments] => 8 [counter] => 487 [topic] => 32 [informant] => puppy_dog_eyes [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 25 [ratings] => 5 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => SadPoetry )
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