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Topic: I promise to act surprised
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pchan33 Knowflake Posts: 66 From: usa Registered: Jan 2006
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posted February 06, 2006 08:06 PM
(This is a poem I wrote in october 2004, it has been published since then)I get so impatient. And yet I wait with baited breath. I practice waiting the way I practice my dancing. Every single day. Your fear breeds patience, but not in me. I see glimpses of you, behind the carefully contructed mask. And it isn't even Halloween yet. And I want it back: long, graceful fingers curled around mine, tingles up my spine, feeling your chest rise and fall as hot breath escapes your sleeping mouth. I can't stand the wait, and yet I cannot speak. palpable silence surrounds me like an envelope, the letter inside is blank. but I want to throw the words like stones. Words that cannot be taken back. Words spoken linger, they hang in the air forever. These words are for keeps. Words that remain trapped in my throat... my mouth like a cage, the words a menagerie of wild animals. It is not my place to say it, and so I wait... for you to drop me a sign, a hint I cannot miss. The suspense builds in me...I know you will say it. every gaze an insinuation, a silent invitation. But I don't know when. And so I remain in a perpetual state of waiting. And When you finally set those magic words free, I promise to act surprised. you were always the best at surprises.
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aqua Knowflake Posts: 2078 From: dreamland Registered: Jan 2004
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posted February 07, 2006 07:55 AM
it touched me......IP: Logged |
pchan33 Knowflake Posts: 66 From: usa Registered: Jan 2006
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posted February 07, 2006 05:53 PM
Thank you, Aqua ------------------ http://www.associatedcontent.com/user/6562/pchan_stockton.html IP: Logged |
pixelpixie Moderator Posts: 3094 From: Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 2005
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posted February 10, 2006 07:10 PM
I really liked this, i meant to say before....IP: Logged |
Randall Webmaster Posts: 23114 From: Columbus, GA USA Registered: Nov 2000
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posted February 17, 2006 07:47 AM
------------------ "There is no use trying," said Alice; "one can't believe impossible things." "I dare say you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." Lewis Carroll IP: Logged |
26taurus Knowflake Posts: 9817 From: the stars Registered: Jun 2004
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posted February 19, 2006 02:36 PM
Beautiful, pchan33. Please share more. ------------------ Some people are made up of rhyme, coincidence, omen, periodicity, and presage: they meet the person they seek; what their companion prepares to say to them, they first say to him; and a hundred signs apprise them of what is about to befall. ~Emerson - Fate IP: Logged |
pchan33 Knowflake Posts: 66 From: usa Registered: Jan 2006
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posted February 21, 2006 06:09 PM
thanks for the compliments everyone. I will post more eventually. ------------------ http://www.associatedcontent.com/user/6562/pchan_stockton.html IP: Logged |