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Tuesday, September 2, 2008

How Missing You Feels



This is how missing you feels--


Like olive oil running off my fingertips,

Like dawn without her sister, sleep.


I remember how touching you feels--


Like rain on cat-tails,

Like my name spoken by church bells.


And when I feel opened, oh...

When I cradle my wound like a favorite child,


When I cannot bear starlight

Or kindness,


That is how missing you feels.

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9 comments:

  1. Very creative writing and the rhyming parts are great!

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  2. Thank you Art & P. It's nice to see you back again. ;-)

    ooh lil Sharkbutt, sometimes you just make me want to buy a fitch factory for you, yanno? Tell your foodchick that Bosco's foodchick says hello...will you do that for me, please? Thanks, dude!

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  3. Wonderful imagery Cookie!

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  4. Very emotional. When I feel opened, when I cradle my wound
    like a favorite child.

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  5. Hello Maria, where have you been? I'm glad you stopped in and that my poem resonated for you. :-)

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  6. I feel as if you are treading a fine line here between a pensive very meditative mood, and a fierce profound need. Beautiful.

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  7. Yes, that's the feeling I was trying to describe, almost waves of first one, then the other, and ultimately all of a piece. Thank you, WC. :-)

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