the calm before.......
coleen
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this one was posted already in a foxhole far, far away on tuesday...damn what a difference a day can make.
ah well, thats life and its always changing as was pointed out by the kindness of a friend. and i just remembered that there was a reference to 'amazing grace' in that one....creepy....... "i was lost and now i'm found, i was blind but now i see"
eyes so blue as glaciers
cuddled close before the hearth
in a cabin built by your hands
the place we would treasure our babies
within the fertile alaskan lands
you whispered how you'd love me
content in dreams to meet me there
though you believed we'd make it real
if i could only learn not to be scared
882 miles between us, in
the night would dissolve and disappear
and we'd blink away the hours
whisper-kissing each others ears
when you finally stood before me
your true lips upon my face
through the night your body warmed me
and i believed in your amazing grace
only now that you've gone there's a constant aching
its a pain that i can't name or place
but my tears swell and burn from my eyes
the memory of your faraway face
ah well, thats life and its always changing as was pointed out by the kindness of a friend. and i just remembered that there was a reference to 'amazing grace' in that one....creepy....... "i was lost and now i'm found, i was blind but now i see"
eyes so blue as glaciers
cuddled close before the hearth
in a cabin built by your hands
the place we would treasure our babies
within the fertile alaskan lands
you whispered how you'd love me
content in dreams to meet me there
though you believed we'd make it real
if i could only learn not to be scared
882 miles between us, in
the night would dissolve and disappear
and we'd blink away the hours
whisper-kissing each others ears
when you finally stood before me
your true lips upon my face
through the night your body warmed me
and i believed in your amazing grace
only now that you've gone there's a constant aching
its a pain that i can't name or place
but my tears swell and burn from my eyes
the memory of your faraway face
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Aw coleen, this one makes me want to cry! My how the yearning heart can ache!
but don't cry being - it was a lovely feeling.
how do you do that?
i wish that i could clip out every one of your posts and keep them in a book. this way i could flip through the pages of you everyday for some magic and some beauty and some truth and something that makes an aching heart's ache not quite so lonely or sad.
mirror, mirror on the wall i'm thankful for the most brilliant glim-shimmering codpiece of all.
maybe instead of clipping everything out i'll get my ass into gear and put together a book of poetry etc and try and get it published and then send one to you and anyone else who thought they wanted one
but really i just want to wear that cape and cod piece you're going to make me and do a goofy dance
as you know i'm going to have to start over again to take into consideration the adjustments for the cape and codpiece. perhaps that is for the best because i had to guess your size and now i can ask if there a particular color you'd most like to have.
and if i create a cape and codpiece to make you proud will i get to see you do your dance?
i'm really going to try now to put everything, or almost everything together...someone wants it, but it may take a few weeks if not months since i've got a few notebooks to go through and old papers and stuff, but its going to happen...i just have to remember to stop being so hung over on teh weekend and then i'll have time...
i'd be interested in knowing what size you guessed and what it was a size for, but if you choose the color it'll be the same as me choosing it (see the interconnectedness post)
and of course
i started with the cape of course and i guessed it to be a billowing size that would swirl and twist and become the wind. is that the right size?
sounds about perfect
Hi coleen! I know you're reading but I sure hope you have a chance to come back soon and share your words with us!
Until then, I wait with baited breath!
thanks B.E.!!!
god what an odd bit of serendipity that you chose this one...it seems like a million years ago that i wrote this. and reading it brings that day back to me like i'm right there in the middle of it.
wouldn't it be nice if life could be like that? if you could re-do a moment like you can re-write a line, maybe i'd only change a word or two. i believe all that stuff about not regretting because changing a moment would alter the path or the place that i'm in and so maybe we should only have a limited number of do-overs. for the first time in my life i can say i really regret a few moments so much that i'd love to re-write me because those moments are associated with the most important thing i've ever done. its amazing when i think about how much difference one little moment, a pause, a silence, a single word can make. all the difference in the world from where i'm sitting.
i suppose whats left to do is wait and hope and to try and be better than i was yesterday.
ah well enough waxing philosophical. i'm still here in spirit, in happy phantom style, reading and feeling and dreaming and loving your words as cherished friends. as cherished and so very much an influence on my smile as my precious poetry hut all stars.
add one more to my copyright tab.
I know what you mean about changing moments but I'd prefer if you didn't change a thing. I love you just the way you are!
no
oh how i miss that :P
but very nice sentiment
you were missing there for a while, glad to see that you are back.
I said I got eight hundred and eighty two dollars, a bent washer and some English pennies that might just pass for thirty-eight cents
So I decided I'm gonna try the knicker store an' get me some o' those leopard skin heliotrope flared glow-in-the-dark underpants
yassuh