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mpsilvertone@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (HarryLime) posted:

you can't post a photo of your face looking like

Your imagination is running away with you again, Pendragon.

EfOe

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On The Stage

I stand on the stage,
there are no words.
The music surrounds me,
I have nothing left to say.
All I can speak of,
is sailing away,
putting it all away.
They surround me,
they play music.
I look into their eyes,
do they,
do they hold the magic?
All I can see is darkness,
there are no words.
Nothing but this joke,
I stand on the stage.
These words are nothing,
I am nothing.
Nothing here, nothing nothing.
No thing.
The source of laughter,
further down.
All I can speak of,
is this wish to fade away.

-Will Dockery 1998

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"Marg Petersen" <pan...@peak.org> posted:

"Will Dockery" <dock...@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:bdb44a4f.0310130325.43d477c4@posting.google.com...

On The Stage.

I stand on the stage,
there are no words.

And yet, you go on for several lines (and words) yet to say so. Hmmmmm.

The music surrounds me,
I have nothing left to say.
All I can speak of,
is sailing away,
putting it all away.
They surround me,
they play music.
I look into their eyes,
do they,
do they hold the magic?
All I can see is darkness,
there are no words.
Nothing but this joke,
I stand on the stage.
These words are nothing,
I am nothing.
Nothing here, nothing nothing.
No thing.
The source of laughter,
further down.
All I can speak of,
is this wish to fade away.

I could say that you *might* (notice that I said MIGHT) have a poem there if you just cut to the chase. The last two lines say it all.

pandora

Thanks, Pandora, the poetry newsgoup misses you.
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