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[aid] => mick
[title] => Smiles In the Ripples
[time] => 2004-11-24 05:56:50
[hometext] => Unedited and raw as ever... I don't think anyone's going to get this one.
[bodytext] => (There and back again.) Couldn’t see the circle until I tripped over the starting line Laughing it off, getting up, But not stepping forward (Again.) . . . He sat there, silent, on the rock Staring, gazing, talking; Whisp'ring at the distant hawk Within the waters, walking For in the liquid sat himself, Reflected, quiet, hiding, Although his face framed perfect health The wet eyes were deciding In all the days and nights before The waves had washed his thoughts unclear Plunging, forming, lost in lore Reflections lost in whispers dear And now the water, languid, calm In startling truth and arid air Like laden wisps of silent psalms Reflected nothing there. It seemed himself yet seemed untrue His face, though rather fair Amidst the pale sky’s mirrored blue Something wasn’t there— —Wakeful winds of silent times in decrescendo dance Biting airs, cremated cares together murder chance Inveigled serendipity asphyxiates in trance Alone in wish-torn quietude will emptiness enhance Solemnities of remedies attempt to mend the last Forgetful airs in melodies that wind-chime of the past Ringing of the enemies whose thoughtful shadows cast Gentle aches of all the stakes, all driven in too fast And smile again, he dearly tried A laugh caught on his tongue Mirth dammed up behind his eyes and welling, swelling lungs… …(Once upon a Neverland and sky-shy shattered stars Once upon the silver lining fragile strongholds gave Once upon forgetful oceans salines shimmered cues Naïve, a raindrop dashed and drowned within itself, not far From ever-lost horizons where sweet dreams joined idle waves (I closed my eyes, in dark reprise, and try to forget— — — —Once, once upon a time, A boy stared into the water, face heavy Hollow air weighing where his heart should be (And though he wasn’t) ...He was smiling in the ripples… [comments] => 4 [counter] => 327 [topic] => 50 [informant] => EternitysLyre [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 15 [ratings] => 3 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => ApologyPoetry )
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