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    Posted: 03-Dec-2004 at 01:45

Thanks Exorsis C

I hope that you are not still lonely.  If you are - come visit us here at AE.

Most of my stuff tends to be a bit freeform as well.

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  Quote Exorsis C Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 02-Dec-2004 at 03:25

Here's one that I wrote a long time ago. I posted it at another forum about a year ago, so some of you may have read it already.

NOT ALONE

People around me,
laughing and talking,
having fun.
I hardly notice
that theyre here.
Not alone,
but feeling lonely,
missing him.
Ive missed him for years now.
Ill never stop missing him,
for as long as I live.
Not alone,
but feeling lonely,
and in pain.
Ive felt the pain for so long now
and it will never go away.
Im in pain,
missing him,
wishing he was here.
Wishing he was still alive.
Wishing he could hold me
and stop me from feeling lonely.
No,
Im not alone,
but Im feeling lonely...

(copyright CS 1987)

I hope you like it... If not, don't be afraid to say so, but please say it in a nice way, perhaps with some constructive critisism.

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  Quote Exorsis C Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 30-Nov-2004 at 01:23
Okay, then I'll try to post some later. I don't have them here right now, but I'll bring them tomorrow. I don't think I have any on this computer, but I'll check. If I find any I'll post them.
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  Quote Cornellia Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29-Nov-2004 at 14:49

I think we'd all love to read your poetry, Exorsis C....and that goes for any of our poetic souls.

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  Quote Exorsis C Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29-Nov-2004 at 03:55

Nice poems, both of them. I have read quite a few poems in my life, although I have managed to miss these two, so thanks for bringing them to my attention.

A question: Can we post our own poetry, or does it have to be something that has been published?

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  Quote vagabond Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 28-Nov-2004 at 18:44

(Abend) - Evening -- by Ranier Maria Rilke
translated by C F MacIntyre

Slowly now the evening changes his garments
held for him by a rim of ancient trees:
you gaze: and the landscape divides and leaves you,
one sinking and one rising toward the sky.

And you are left, to none belonging wholly,
not so dark as a silent house, nor quite
so surely pledged unto eternity
as that which grows to star and climbs the night.

To you is left (unspeakably confused)
your life, gigantic, ripening, full of fears,
so that it, now hemmed in, now grasping all,
is changed in you by turns to stone and stars.



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  Quote Imperator Invictus Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26-Nov-2004 at 00:47
I cannot say I have the time to partake in too many full length book readings, but poems are usually short enough for me to read. 

I've come across one recently that's pretty good. What do you think?

HAPPY THE MAN, From Horace's Odes
Translated by Dryden

Happy the man, and happy he alone,
he who can call today his own:
he who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Be fair or foul, or rain or shine
the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.
Not Heaven itself, upon the past has power,
but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.


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