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- From: NAT@drao.nrc.ca (Natalie Prowse)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.poems
- Subject: temporary loss of harmony / Natalie
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.190236.16870@cerberus.ulaval.ca>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 19:02:36 GMT
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- temporary loss of harmony
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- i can read your body enough to know
- that you are resenting me
- for not being able
- to read your mind...
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- needs conflict and conflict arises.
- pillow soft words envelop
- anger and hurt. hush.
- a smothering silence
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- broken by the clash
- of taut, discordant rhythms.
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- quantifying kills the essence.
- love cannot be measured
- but the meter is running
- four beats to the bar.
- my voice is trebling
- your accusations, base.
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- the pendulum swishes
- on premeditated path.
- it cannot change the swath it cuts.
- only slow or speed up, or stop.
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- all things being equal
- one cannot equate love.
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- a security blanket, a comfort object
- has warmth and constancy,
- but no life.
- i'll opt for music in my bed,
- even when it is off key.
- i'll take the occasional lonely night,
- out of sync, but quiescent,
- and softly sing myself to sleep.
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- -Natalie / Dec 23, 1992
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- (nat@drao.nrc.ca) |"It's good to have a healthy sense of sin. It adds
- | *spice* to one's transgressions..." - J.H.
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