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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 02:14 PM
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***A Poem for Today***
There is death here

They say you carry the seeds of your death

Inside you

I’ve just caught a glimpse of mine

A small piece of my heart

Just rolled over

And died.

And

Funny thing


I have no tears for it


Not yet anyway………



This just came out of me today........thought you might find it interesting....
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johnnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 02:18 PM
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1. Whoa... heavy
Edited on Wed Oct-04-06 02:22 PM by johnnie
I have to let that mull around under my skull for a while. :hi:

BTW, I like it. :)
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 02:22 PM
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2. My dear johnnie.............
Edited on Wed Oct-04-06 02:24 PM by CaliforniaPeggy
It is a little, isn't it?

Thanks for commenting ..........

:hug:

On edit: I'm glad you like it!

:hi:
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khashka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 02:30 PM
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3. Beautiful.....
But I already told you that.

Spontaneous poem for Peggy......


I have spent my entire life
trying to give an eye for wisdom
and all along
you've had an eye for beauty....

Khash.


P.S. For those who don't get the ref.... Odin, the all-father, king of the gods, gave up one of his eyes in order to gain wisdom......
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 02:34 PM
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4. My dear Khash.........
Thanks.......

I'm so pleased to have your comments here, for all posterity...

And I love your spontaneous poem for me!

That is just beautiful, sweetie!

I think that it's a prime candidate for my little blank book.......

BTW, thank you also for explaining the Odin reference...... :hug: :loveya:

Funny......I'm feeling much stronger since our chat.........thank you for your help.......
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khashka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 02:41 PM
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5. You really like it?
I can't decide if I like it or it's absolute total crap.

But either way it's my gift to you, who has gifted me so many....

Khash.
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 02:54 PM
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9. My dear Khash!
Yes, I really like it!

And I just wrote it down in my blank book too......

Thank you so much..........:loveya:
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wildhorses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 09:04 PM
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14. its weird how poems can be spontaneously "thrust" upon us...
like yesterday...those words just jumped out...when we were talking about sad songs. its like I cannot claim these words as mine I was just the conduit of some divine inspiration, a tool :shrug:

and yes, CalPeg really does have an eye for beauty

and isn't beauty a wisdom all its own?

:hug::hug:
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Haole Girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 02:46 PM
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6. It's very sad...
...plus, I'm still pouting over not getting a response in Swimboy's appreciation thread. Sure, there were two of us that didn't, but Call me Wesley is a mod, and all, and....oh, just forget it.

Keep on writin' dearest Peggy!~
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 02:53 PM
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7. My dear KC2........
I appreciate your comments a lot, sweetie......

Funny, but I didn't feel sad when I wrote this.......

Sort of numb, perhaps.........

I'm sorry about neglecting you! I hadn't realized I was.......

I'll be right there, OK?

As long as the words keep on showing up, I will keep writing.......

And posting.........:hug:
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Haole Girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 02:59 PM
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11. You've never neglected me!!
And, as you know, my little fragile ego needs a lot of stroking!

Thank you...:hug: :loveya:
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miss_american_pie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 02:53 PM
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8. Thank you
for sharing it with us. :hi:
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 02:55 PM
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10. My dear miss_american_pie..........
You're welcome......

And thank you for reading........

:hug:
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wildhorses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 03:01 PM
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12. I wonder "where did that come from?"
inspired by and why?


very nice Peggo:loveya:
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 03:05 PM
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13. My dear wildhorses......
It just showed up inside me today......

I cannot comment on why, though......

Glad you like it, sweetie!

I just might turn into a writer yet...........

Stranger things have happened.......

:hug: :loveya:
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Writer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 09:09 PM
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15. Peggy, that's definitely a very personal thought.
It's a lie to say that art is created solely for art's sake. Always is the artist's soul attached to his or her work.

That work contains your soul, and I hope all is well with you. :hug:

Writer.
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 09:22 PM
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16. My dear Writer...
Indeed, this poem contains my soul!

But let me hasten to add.....that having written this poem, I am in a much better place than I have been for awhile....

Thank you for your thoughts tonight.... :hug:
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Writer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 10:07 PM
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17. Well I thought it was quite lovely. Thank you for sharing it.
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TOhioLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 10:10 PM
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18. That's very deep...
...I find it a little saddening too.
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 10:31 PM
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20. My dear TOhioLiberal...........
I felt it most profoundly, as I wrote it.......

It is a little sad, isn't it?

I wasn't really sad though.......resigned might be a better description.

Thanks for coming by.........:hug:
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TOhioLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 10:37 PM
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22. more likely its me...
...I have had a lot of crap dumped on my plate: by life, by my husband, by laughing fate. Your poem has tapped into that, making me face it. x(
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 10:46 PM
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23. Oh sweetie.......
I am sorry if this has caused you any discomfort......

That was not my intention at all....

I'm hoping that things will be better for you quickly! :hug:
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TOhioLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 11:54 PM
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30. I sent you a PM...
:cry:
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vixengrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 10:15 PM
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19. Lovely and true, CaliforniaPeggy.
I like the way it ends:

Funny thing


I have no tears for it


Not yet anyway………

It suggests the loss or hurt is too new to feel truly, but the feeling will come--that's pretty much the way of it. Makes me want to share mine (crap, caught out as a poet)--

The State of Things



Every wound

Is ultimately mortal,

And every scar-

Permanent,

And every passion-

Endless,

And every breath-

Final,

For right now I can tell you

Just what wounds I am dying of;

And every scar I have had,

Though unseen, I can show you

I can conjure any passion,

Once fresh, into life again,

And every breath I take stops-before I take another.

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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 10:34 PM
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21. My dear vixengrl!
I just love your poem!

That has a lot of passion in it.......plus truth!

It is beautifully organized as well.....

I don't believe we've spoken before......and I'm glad to meet you......

Thank you for your compliments! :hug:
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vixengrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 10:56 PM
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24. Thank you!
:hug:
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 11:18 PM
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25. Nice and simple peg....
A good poem...
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 11:21 PM
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27. Hey Chris.......
That's how it came out of me today......

Glad to see you.....and glad you like it.......

It means a lot, coming from you........:hug:
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 11:21 PM
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26. Interesting piece, Peggy.
And well done, though it is a sad piece. :loveya: :hug: :loveya:
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 11:23 PM
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28. My dear SeattleGirl......
Well, sometimes I feel sad........

And this is just how it was earlier today.....

Glad you like it, sweetie!

:loveya: :hug: :loveya:
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 11:26 PM
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29. I understand, and I hope you didn't take my comment as a
negative comment on your work. It is sad, and yes, sometimes we just feel that way. Being able to write about it is a good way to express it.

:loveya: :hug: :loveya:
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-05-06 12:57 AM
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32. I sure did not take your comments as negative!
I am happy that I am able to communicate it, first to myself....

And then to all of you interested enough to read it!

:loveya: :hug: :loveya:
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Rowdyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 11:57 PM
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31. I wrote some interesting poetry back in the early 1970's when I was young,
passionate and drunk on sensations...Really wish I was still moved enough to compose.
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-05-06 01:00 AM
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33. My dear Rowdyboy!
Well, you never know when the tap will open, and the words emerge...

I have never been able to write like this until very recently.

Somehow the words are showing up in this form for me now...

And I have no idea as to why!

But they want to come out, and so I'm letting them....

I'd love to see some of your work...if you feel like it! :hug:
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fizzgig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-05-06 01:07 AM
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34. beautiful cp
thank you so much for sharing
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-05-06 01:11 AM
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35. My dear kagehime.........
I'm so glad you enjoyed my little verse.

Thank you for coming by tonight!

I love to share my thoughts with my friends...

:hug:
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ButterCup Donating Member (8 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-07-06 07:51 PM
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36. Nicely put! That really hits home
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-07-06 07:56 PM
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37. My dear ButterCup.......
Thank you!

It was just one of those things......the words were yelling at me to let them out......

So I did...

And......Welcome to DU!
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