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Rhyming"Alarm will sound" -
go on and sound it.
Take the exit,
be glad you found it.

Basket full of trouble,
boxcar full of stone.
Leave one here,
drag one home.

Cactus Cathy and Gentleman Jim
met in the desert and went for a swim.

Dreams are trains
without a track -
they take us away
and don't bring us back.

Elevators go up
all the way to the top  -
in dreams they may
refuse to stop.

Forgetting is lovely, remembering too;
either one can make you happy,
either one can make you blue.

Gather your wits, if you can, if you're able,
round them up and sit them at your table.
Fill their glasses, then sit back and listen;
sip you
Breaths and silencesUnsleeping, Adam leaves the bed to take
a sedative, then slides back in. Eve's deep
breathing tells him that she did not wake.
He lies there thinking back upon the year
he lay awake and listened, wrapped in fear,
to make sure she was breathing, and how sleep
would tug him down; recalls how glad he was
to hear her snore. She is snoring gently now.
He thinks of wakeful nights he slept alone,
and then of all the lovers who have known
these breaths and silences; he'll write a poem.
He starts it in his head to pass the time.
He makes a line or two he wants to keep,
repeats them to himself as he falls asleep.

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Tea stain, text subtraction and paper collage on playing card, 2.5 x 3.5 inches.

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*hummbuzz Aug 24, 2012
I have featured this image. [link] :sun:
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*RichardLeach Aug 24, 2012  Professional Traditional Artist
:aww:
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*hummbuzz Aug 24, 2012
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*aerendial Apr 14, 2012
in my journal - 'word by word' [link] :tea:
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~artairk Jan 17, 2012
I check this site irregularly, so they all come at once to me. medias sin pie.
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*RichardLeach Jan 18, 2012  Professional Traditional Artist
Ha - that's exactly how it works!
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*LauraTringaliHolmes Jan 16, 2012
Cue summer on the ocean! What a looking-forward piece.
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*RichardLeach Jan 17, 2012  Professional Traditional Artist
My old poetry book comes through again!
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*djailledie Jan 8, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
I can't imagine true love other than bare feet, with no scheme nor plan.
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*RichardLeach Jan 9, 2012  Professional Traditional Artist
That's absolutely true.
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