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From: Ontario Canada
Registered: Jun 2005

posted December 20, 2004 11:26 PM         

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Can you be angry with a dream?
Be angry with obsene words, twisted from years
wrought with violence, flung from a vicious pen
Though they are small alone, somehow together they possess and bite
together they are more than spite
Devouring old feelings buried beneath carefully sewn demeaners and tattered truths
Can you be angry at a remembered love
cobwebs shaking and breaking with the furious windbreath of the past
A door opened, shattering the old hinges that only squeaked before
Can you be angry with not so much a person,
but angry that we couldn't be
(each in our own shells)
the image we invoked with our own dreams combined
together they seemed
larger,
like the old words
bigger
and they make the words angrier
We loved with a passion only exceeded by the passion with which we've hated
Conjouring demons where the love once rested innocently
A favourite dimple becomes a wound
A crest of hair, tangled wire
It's hard to walk on wire when its so caught up in shadows
It's hard to walk on wire with no hand to guide
and no net resting safely astride.
He once cursed me, but we cursed each other
I know we cursed because we were children walking tall,
hating each other for not knowing how to love
We understand differently now
We barely relate, only through necessity.
and even then, not well.
But I know the love was the realest thing,
the most fragile and booming thing that had entered my body
and anything that deep leaves scars.
There is only so much camouflage for the body.
every once and a while, a passage can rip it open
every once and a while, new bandages must be applied
Ten more years, perhaps, until we get it right?
Love and hate, aren't they really the same thing? Separated by moments.

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posted December 21, 2004 02:33 AM         

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posted December 21, 2004 10:03 AM         

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You live this life with your eyes wide open but all you can own are your feelings and your experiences...

I loved it, Pix!

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From: London
Registered: Jul 2004

posted December 29, 2004 05:27 PM         

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pixie ~ I'm in just the right frame of mind to absorb that, and catch the all the emotion there.

It played with my heart a little, and I realised I relate to everything that came from yours.

I admire the intricate way you deal with words, like you tackle the situation and order the words to take time out from the dictionary, line up, sit with you, then run along the page until you're done!

Another Opalescent masterpiece You know I love it, because I do

And yes you can be angry with a dream.

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posted December 30, 2004 10:35 AM         

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We loved with a passion only exceeded by the passion with which we've hated

Ohhhh, yes... been there before, doll.

Another wonderous vision!

Ghani

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posted May 23, 2007 09:30 AM         

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Wise, deep-hearted Pixie

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posted May 24, 2007 11:47 AM         

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Awesome, Pix!! I loved the bare, stark human emotion in your words.

"Love and hate, aren't they really the same thing? Separated by moments."

Yes, I think they are. We can't seem to have one without the other.

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posted May 24, 2007 12:29 PM         

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pix, you're amazing. Truly.

you better be saving these, young lady.

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