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Ruminations On Velocity & Gravitational Pull
« on: Dec 22nd, 2004, 7:45am » |
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Ruminations On Velocity And Gravitational Pull
Swaying on the narrow ledge
forty-six stories up.
The blue lights of the nightsky shout
in my bloodshot eyes while
the cello wind sings through
girders and glass, slapping me and
stealing my breath.
Through gritty teardrop haze, the
blurring tilted world spins below and
your photo with your jagged smile ripping
your face open and exposing your glaring teeth
flutters and falls
from my fingers like
a sparrow snared in barbed wire.
Toes hanging in empty space, I
consider one little step: How irrevocable, how the
ledge would look as I fell away, wondering if I would grab
in vain for it, and at what point I would surrender to grim
velocity and screaming space, wondering what my last thoughts would be,
and whether my heart would stop before
IMPACT
Or if I would plummet with eyes as white and round as peeled grapes,
bloody laughter sweet and metallic in my throat
as the brutal concrete rushed to split me like an overripe tomato.
-Frank H. Weeden
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« Reply #1 on: Dec 22nd, 2004, 7:59am » |
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Frank don't make me come in there........ Awesome poetry though the topic makes me a bit nervous... God bless and know we are here for you always........ Ree
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« Reply #2 on: Dec 22nd, 2004, 8:10am » |
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 All is well, Ree.  I love high, precarious places. 
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« Reply #3 on: Dec 22nd, 2004, 8:20am » |
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on Dec 22nd, 2004, 8:10am, Jeepgun wrote:| All is well, Ree. I love high, precarious places. |
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I guess you do... I don't isn't that funny... I have always been afraid of heights. I actually get tunnell vision when I am up high somewhere. I could actually feel it when I read that poem......... be well and have a great day... I'm rushing around today so I am posting early... gotta get ready for the weekend........ Happy Holidays.
In the wake of yesterdays tragedy... Thanks for your service to our country also... There is a special breed of young men that are serving in Iraq for whatever reason. Its almost a paranormal experience for most of them. I am proud to know you.
Now go and write something happy........... love ya Frank ~~~ Ree~~~
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« Reply #4 on: Dec 22nd, 2004, 8:27am » |
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on Dec 22nd, 2004, 8:20am, Ree wrote:
I guess you do... I don't isn't that funny... I have always been afraid of heights. I actually get tunnell vision when I am up high somewhere. I could actually feel it when I read that poem......... be well and have a great day... I'm rushing around today so I am posting early... gotta get ready for the weekend........ Happy Holidays.
In the wake of yesterdays tragedy... Thanks for your service to our country also... There is a special breed of young men that are serving in Iraq for whatever reason. Its almost a paranormal experience for most of them. I am proud to know you.
Now go and write something happy........... love ya Frank ~~~ Ree~~~ |
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Thank you, Ree. I am proud to know you, and think of you and your son, everytime I read or hear something about Iraq, and always, I send a kind thought to you both. I was glad and proud to serve. It was the best six years of my life, so far.
I promise to post happier things in the near future.
-Frank
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Re: Ruminations On Velocity & Gravitational Pu
« Reply #5 on: Dec 22nd, 2004, 8:31am » |
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Glad to know you're okay though...
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« Reply #6 on: Dec 22nd, 2004, 8:36am » |
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Thanks, Langa. It's amazing the things that a chitty relationship can do to a person... I'm glad to be at the age that I am now, and at the point in my life that I am, now. I think everyone wants to be younger, but not me. I'd never want to go back and relive my teens and twenties. Too many tears...
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« Reply #7 on: Dec 22nd, 2004, 8:44am » |
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on Dec 22nd, 2004, 8:36am, Jeepgun wrote:| Thanks, Langa. It's amazing the things that a chitty relationship can do to a person... I'm glad to be at the age that I am now, and at the point in my life that I am, now. I think everyone wants to be younger, but not me. I'd never want to go back and relive my teens and twenties. Too many tears... |
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You're right, Frank. Sometimes I wish life was simpler like when I was younger, but then I think about the crap I went through then as well and quickly realize how blessed I am right here, right now. 
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