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By maddie4848

random poems old and new

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john part 2

By maddie4848 on Mon, 25 Jan 2010

Time grinds you fine.. your voice spiralling in and out of space to me; wheels winding us (relentless) still in parallel directions. Across the miles, your intermittent fingers stretch
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"i drank water from your spring and let the current take me" Rumi. .

By maddie4848 on Tue, 26 Jan 2010

Made childlike, clumsy: the sky tilts foreboding at me, blundering blindly into the blue; and not even happy. wanting, scared to want; having, losing.... your presence rubbing me raw,
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abacus

By maddie4848 on Sun, 31 Jan 2010

Rows of days drift like washing down the years.. hued in shades of pain or joy stringing like grey beads, revolving, hung in time on the abacus of my life, . What have i learnt?
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april that year..

By maddie4848 on Sat, 06 Feb 2010

Small dark quiet space, a branching, reaching, fingering of roots, a stretch of stem; sap is rising -stirring seed, budding tree... slow, relentless, unstoppable, sweet as air; old as time...
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Cherry

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By maddie4848 on Sun, 24 Jan 2010

I breathed on you, mumbling meanings you didn't catch.. my life can go anywhere, i said i can make anything I'm alive, I burn.. Your thin face rustled, a twitch of chin..
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valentine, for john

By maddie4848 on Mon, 25 Jan 2010

You are my soul brother; my erstwhile distant lover, the ties that bind us swinging thin,& loose; old rope, strong as wire... Clumsy pupil: in all i learnt i forgot how to hold your hand.
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stonegate, york

By maddie4848 on Mon, 25 Jan 2010

the rain streams, shining in grey gullies. city cobbles into wet,... tiny street darkly a-drip. Huddled in doorways, doused figures hunch tight, stained birds flapping umbrellas.
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For F..

By maddie4848 on Tue, 26 Jan 2010

Looking at you my eyes opened & I saw you. You touched me my body fell into here where you are & my body wanted more. I have become more with all this wanting; i am the wanting & the more
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You know who you are.

By maddie4848 on Sat, 30 Jan 2010

Where are you? Not here; out in the world with your hat on. your fingers are not on me, nor your words in my ear, nor your eyes, asking questions. My voice silent, but dialogue continues,
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for irene, november 2001

By maddie4848 on Sat, 30 Jan 2010

Leaves fall, singly and in groups, whirling to lie, orange. yellow, fading to brown on the city street. You fell, singly.. whilst i was away - whirling to a hospital room where
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phyllis

By maddie4848 on Sat, 30 Jan 2010

I loved your smile. wide, arcing my world safe; with a life i won't forget.. took for granted the bond we had, think I'll not find its like again in anyone.. closeness natural as breathing,
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salsa'd..

By maddie4848 on Sun, 31 Jan 2010

Memory of you,dancing. flag in a stiff breeze; butterfly, dust mote drifting, sleet on a windowpane; your fingers told them all.. body tracing itself in rhythm; insistent, latin, precise.
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mother

By maddie4848 on Fri, 05 Feb 2010

The day hangs like a hat. Do i matter? We drink tea. Outside the sun blows rosewards, my head is bowed. Schoolteacher - the hole of your silence throws me into the blackboard.
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huh..

By maddie4848 on Fri, 05 Feb 2010

you know I don't see you much you stand there like an everyone with your shirt and all and your skin in the present tense and i want you special your eyes are dark like jet
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worth it??

By maddie4848 on Fri, 05 Feb 2010

A leaf in the air - you danced past me, whirling fingers open to everyone, touching on me... Fit dancers body my foreign landscape briefly I relearnt how now vanishes
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You, again..

By maddie4848 on Sat, 06 Feb 2010

Silence of the phone stretches to weeks; you always fading, moving backwards, dimmed. I do & don't care, watching my wanting; you're in my head, hopeless; your presence had me fixed, focused;
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Tree, by Spring.

By maddie4848 on Sat, 06 Feb 2010

Leaning on the sky, strong silhouette delicate as lace; unclothed branches stretch, spreading thin traceries, bark on blue.. this winter tree is last to green;
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