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Lialei
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posted February 04, 2006 08:25 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lialei     Edit/Delete Message

I would like to watch you
sleeping,
which may not happen.
I would like to watch you,
sleeping. I would like to sleep
with you, to enter
your sleep as its smooth dark wave
slides over my head

and walk with you through
that lucent wavering forest
of bluegreen leaves
with its watery sun
and three moons
towards the cave
where you must descend,
towards your worst fear

I would like to give you
the silver branch,
the small white flower,
the one word that
will protect you
from the grief at the center
of your dream, from the grief
at the center.
I would like to follow
you up the long stairway
again & become
the boat that would row you back
carefully, a flame
in two cupped hands
to where your body lies
beside me, and you enter
it as easily as breathing in

I would like to be the air
that inhabits you for a moment
only. I would like to be
that unnoticed
& that necessary.


~Margaret Atwood

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salome
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posted February 04, 2006 08:36 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for salome     Edit/Delete Message
oh...
so soft and sweet.
thank you for sharing this.

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not controlled by time
future lovers shine for eternity
in a world that's free
~madonna

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Dynamic_Stillness
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posted February 04, 2006 08:47 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Dynamic_Stillness     Edit/Delete Message
BEaYOUtiful!

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fayte.m
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posted February 04, 2006 08:51 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for fayte.m     Edit/Delete Message
My response to these words are not for the public eyes... Except to say..
It doth touch truly... the hidden depths of me........

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Lialei
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posted February 05, 2006 10:44 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lialei     Edit/Delete Message
The most precious and rare of souls would have understood that feeling...
as you all must be.

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SunChild
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posted February 05, 2006 11:37 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for SunChild     Edit/Delete Message

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sweetlibra
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posted February 06, 2006 12:22 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for sweetlibra     Edit/Delete Message
Thnx for sharing

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