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Speech Bubbles

Icy palm shelters a fevered mouth. I still know what you're thinking. Speech needn't become tangible for your words to cut and bruise. What you ache to say blankets, lingers atmospherically between us. Long gone are days of battling space, requiring time, not colloquy. What's the use of using words if they only cut and bruise. A simple glance, curl of lip a siren, screeching through the silence. Say nothing, if you can't speak nice. Converse with me in bubbles to ignore as I please, I never learnt to read.
11 Sept 2011

Copyright © | Year Posted 2011




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Date: 9/15/2011 7:33:00 AM
Nice poem, congratulations on your win. Well done. Lee
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Date: 9/15/2011 7:24:00 AM
Very intersting take on the bubbles theme, very nice poem, well done.
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Date: 9/13/2011 6:13:00 PM
CONGRATS JODIE ON A TERRIFIC THIRD PLACE WIN WITH THIS CREATIVE PIECE ON BUBBLES LUV..
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Date: 9/13/2011 5:27:00 PM
Well conveyed Jodi, enjoyed.
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Date: 9/12/2011 10:40:00 PM
This one lingers after you read it... hangs in the air like those thought bubbles you write of. I like the uncomfortable feeling you've projected, like I've read someone's journal and I shouldn't have... intimate write earning a well deserved win. Congrats !! Cyndi
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Date: 9/12/2011 4:53:00 PM
i like your use of "blankets", "Curl of lip". great descriptive phrasing. congratulations on your win :)
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Date: 9/12/2011 4:20:00 PM
Congratulations Jodi. Joyce
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Date: 9/12/2011 3:42:00 PM
Congratulations on your win in Debbie Guzzi's "Bubbles"contest Jodie. Love,Carol
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Date: 9/12/2011 3:19:00 PM
hey Jodie congrats on your superb win,..David
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Date: 9/12/2011 3:00:00 PM
Sad and very moving poem, Jodie. If only we could "conversee" in bubbles so we could ignore the ones that hurt us. Congratulations on your win in Deb's contest! Love, Carolyn
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Date: 9/12/2011 2:41:00 PM
Great work to be in the high place of honor..Congrats..Sara
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Date: 9/11/2011 2:06:00 PM
smashing offering,jodie.. speech that can;t be read--- what a tremendous visual! winning wishes with huggs! :) nette
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