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Topic: Near and Far
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Faith
Knowflake Posts: 6769
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Registered: Jul 2011
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posted January 17, 2014 04:51 PM
  
It's hard to understand
how one day, you surround me--
engulf, encompass my whole spirit
saying heartfully, explicitly
"You and I are one."
Another day
there is no overlapping
whatsoever. Collapsing into oneness--
Telescoping into strangers-- Is this the way you always are?
Dancing near and far?
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Randall
Webmaster Posts: 36993
From: Saturn next to Charmainec
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted January 17, 2014 04:58 PM
Loves it! Can identify, since it describes me.IP: Logged |
Faith
Knowflake Posts: 6769
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posted January 17, 2014 09:41 PM
Thank you.  IP: Logged |
Faith
Knowflake Posts: 6769
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posted January 18, 2014 09:54 AM
Another verse:--- And I am always faltering
in everything I do--
if the hope inside
each action is
to recombine
with
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Faith
Knowflake Posts: 6769
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posted January 18, 2014 11:20 AM
It occurred to me as an afterthought that my little poem is a commentary on what John Gray calls typical male behavior: quote:
“A rubber band is the perfect metaphor to understand the male intimacy cycle,” writes Gray. “Men instinctively feel this urge to pull away. It is not a decision or choice. It just happens . . . It is a natural cycle.” (92) As men experience this instinctive urge to “fulfill [their] need for independence or autonomy,” they pull away much like a rubber band that is stretched to its limit. (93) Like the rubber band, a man has nowhere else to go but back. When he has done so, like the rubber band, “he will return with a lot of power and spring.” (94) If a woman expects her partner to be close and intimate all of the time, the rubber band will turn limp and flaccid. His “power and strength,” like the rubber band, is gone. Simply put, if a woman quietly accepts her partner’s instinctive urge to pull away, she will be rewarded by his eventual return.
Link I might re-post that in Sweet Peas. IP: Logged |
Pearlty
Moderator Posts: 354
From: Ohio
Registered: Jan 2012
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posted January 21, 2014 02:53 PM
Personable and deep, loved both parts and the conveying article too. IP: Logged |
Faith
Knowflake Posts: 6769
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posted January 22, 2014 09:01 AM
Thanks!IP: Logged |
charmainec
Moderator Posts: 7803
From: Venus next to Randall
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted January 29, 2014 06:27 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Faith:
It's hard to understand
how one day, you surround me--
engulf, encompass my whole spirit
saying heartfully, explicitly
"You and I are one."
Another day
there is no overlapping
whatsoever. Collapsing into oneness--
Telescoping into strangers-- Is this the way you always are?
Dancing near and far?
Faith, you nailed it.  ------------------
"DON'T EVER try and destroy someone's life with a LIE.....when yours can be destroyed with the TRUTH...."
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mirage29
Knowflake Posts: 2328
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Registered: May 2012
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posted February 04, 2014 10:17 PM
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