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Array ( [sid] => 7577 [catid] => 1 [aid] => Mick [title] => Laurie [time] => 2002-11-27 20:20:00 [hometext] => Wrote this after a few drinks with a young lady I'd just met at a local poetry reading. It's odd to run into someone who brings the past back so vividly. [bodytext] => Windows before me
Open to a room I once knew
So well so long ago

It seems more than many
Lifetimes past
Since last we met

But of this
You have no recall

That much has happened
Since once we spoke
Where shadows embraced
Spirit paths that couldn’t
sing the same melody
dance the same step
or remain together
past the opening act
of a very sad play

Perhaps it’s the smile
That encourages memory
Of new lovers
Riding alone

And a roar of the engine
Beneath us
That carried two runaways
Into each others arms
For too short a time

Perhaps it’s the image
Of youth, hope and wonder
You still wear so well

That over 20 years later
My heart will stumble
And trip like a fool

When I try so very very hard
Not to let on

That I understand
at least a little
This vision just beyond reach
One more time

© July 28 2000
Kent Mackey

[comments] => 1 [counter] => 156 [topic] => 22 [informant] => KM [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 5 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => LostLove )

Laurie

Contributed by KM on Wednesday, 27th November 2002 @ 08:20:00 PM in AEST
Topic: LostLove

Windows before me
Open to a room I once knew
So well so long ago

It seems more than many
Lifetimes past
Since last we met

But of this
You have no recall

That much has happened
Since once we spoke
Where shadows embraced
Spirit paths that couldn’t
sing the same melody
dance the same step
or remain together
past the opening act
of a very sad play

Perhaps it’s the smile
That encourages memory
Of new lovers
Riding alone

And a roar of the engine
Beneath us
That carried two runaways
Into each others arms
For too short a time

Perhaps it’s the image
Of youth, hope and wonder
You still wear so well

That over 20 years later
My heart will stumble
And trip like a fool

When I try so very very hard
Not to let on

That I understand
at least a little
This vision just beyond reach
One more time

© July 28 2000
Kent Mackey

Copyright Â© KM ... [ 2002-11-27 20:20:00]
(Date/Time posted on site)

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Re: Laurie (User Rating: 1 )
by OreO on Thursday, 28th November 2002 @ 01:30:25 AM AEST
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Bravo!! Beautifully written
i really enjoyed this one alot
Thanks for sharing it
.::´¯`·..· OreO·..·´¯`::.

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