History

excuse me
there is no
need to brush
the dust off of
that stone for it

will be among
other things
thrown in
the bin
since

they have been here
before and before
your and my
opinion as
to their

beginnings
but it's not
quite like
piecing
pieces

together whether
the weather per
mits and with
or against
me you

allow my storm
to form wanting
to ignite even
slightly what

might be or 
how would
a cockney
say the

same thing
but needing
repeating after
say it, say it again 

and she never
mentions the
name Sam
so where

did he get
the idea
that he
was it

and she was
surely not Shirley
Temple and yet she
is to be worshipped and

so calmly
i sit and
take in
her

smell but
can't tell
is that
her or

where i've
been but
that is
or my

or shall i 
say ours
after so
many

candle melt
downs that
consume
themselves

along
with us
as we follow
the flow of the

flood

Copyright © | Year Posted 2019



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Date: 11/9/2019 2:54:00 PM
Wow. That was ... powerful.... brilliant write. Ann
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Jeff Connelly
Date: 11/9/2019 5:06:00 PM
Thank you Ann, but really it was just a free flow of words and thoughts; one suggesting the next connected by sonorous sounds and half rhymes. Like many an abstract painting, I have no idea what it means lol.
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