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| Poetry Poems, Haiku & Tanka etc. |
01-16-2005, 11:28 PM
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Writing Machine
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: South Carolina
Gender: Female
Posts: 1,948
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Today is My Birthday
Today is my birthday
Let's blow out the candles
And laugh
As the sound of ripped paper
Fills the air.
Let us cut the cake
And pass it 'round
As the kids run laughing,
Into the sprinklers.
Leave me now--
As day turns dusk--
To view your ghosts
I can still hear laughter,
Ringing.
Alone in my house
The silence overpowering
I'll stare at presents
Plates full of lone frosting.
To bed I will retire
In the reliable dark
Thinking
About past years
Regrets and triumphs.
Today is my birthday
But nothing's changed
I still lie
Alone, listening to the laughter
Echo through the halls.
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My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. --Ernest Hemingway
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01-17-2005, 02:32 AM
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Mentor
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: New Jersey
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Happy Birthday!
Hi Lonewolf...co-incidentally...today is my birthday too! (albeit I have celebrated quite a bit more than you have!) We Capricorns live to be a ripe old age...but get younger in the process!
Have a wonderful day! 
Grandma Bea
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To a Sr. Citizen, age is an attitude, not a number...To the young, attitude will get you fired!
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01-17-2005, 03:53 AM
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Adept Writer
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Athens, al
Gender: Male
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Happy Birthday to you lonewolf, and the same goes for you Beatrice Boyle.
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01-17-2005, 06:39 PM
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Writing Machine
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Location: South Carolina
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Oh em gee!! I'm sooo sorry, guys! I wrote this in such a rush I didn't put a disclaimer on it or anything...it really isn't my birthday!!! My birthday is Sept. 22...I just wrote this poem because I was thinking about the "importance" of birthdays to me...I am so embarassed!  Again, I'm sorry, but thanks Bea and Jp for the early Happy Birthday's! (It's almost my half b-day...does that count?)
Happy happy birthday to you though, Bea!!!
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My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. --Ernest Hemingway
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01-17-2005, 06:52 PM
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Addict
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Georgia
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Happy Bithday and many more to come.
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01-17-2005, 07:34 PM
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Prolific Writer
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: New York
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Yesterday, there was so many things I was never shown
Suddenly this time I found I'm on the streets and I'm all alone
'Cause yesterday's got nothin' for me
Old pictures that I'll always see
Time just fades the pages In my book of memories
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01-18-2005, 12:50 PM
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Profound Writer
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: England
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I didn't reply to this post initially because:
1. If I commented on the poem without wishing Happy Birthday (which I was sure it wasn't) it would seem impolite;
2. If I said Happy Birthday I would be going against my first instincts and embarrassing poor LoneWolf 
Ohh, I like the "reliable dark thinking." Good stuff, LoneWolf.
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Never get so attached to a poem
you forget truth that lacks lyricism
and never draw so close to the heat
that you forget that you must eat
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01-20-2005, 06:31 PM
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Writing Machine
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Thanks everyone for wishing me an early birthday! lol
And thank you, Scratches...I am still soo embarassed!
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My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. --Ernest Hemingway
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01-20-2005, 08:34 PM
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Member
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Georgia
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First of all, Happy Bithday!!!! And many more. I really enjoyed your poem. It was beautiful. I remember when I was the kid running through the sprinklers.(well, i would still do that)
Joe
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01-21-2005, 06:22 PM
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Writing Machine
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: South Carolina
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Thanks commander221! I'm so glad you thought it was beautiful!
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