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i saw my name?...
oh thanks for the compliment. phoenix should keep posting her poems.. she is so creative.

😉

i-sun

sounds like a little competition ploy to me! Nice try!!

who did that song you know the one 'You're Never Gonna Get It!'? (three chics).

i think it was en' vouge' listen to it!

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I don't get it!!?? I'm having a complete bonde moment...lol, I don't get what you mean about competition and that en vogue song!

-phoenix

i-sun:

Thank you very much for the compliment; and because of the encouragement I think I will post more of my stuff : )

You da man! : )

competition between who... competition?

im not blonde but im having whatever heather is having. im lost too

i hope you are not refering between me and heather, because i have no match with her. she'd kill me. 😉 why would you compete with some so important to you? i can't do that to heath.

plus, i never posted any poems online. so i have nothing to compete with...

i-sun:

I also think you should post your stuff here...I would like to print it out and save it forever (and I think everyone else would love it as much as I). You're so good, in a million different ways.

phoenix

Get A Life

Why must you sleep
When your heart is awake?
Open your eyes and see the new day.
Yesterday is spent, and
The memories are well paid for;
Tomorrow holds no claim;
Just be glad for the hour.
Rest if you must,
but Time does not wait;
We are here for a moment
Our future is fate.
Let the day unfold by the minute,
so spend it wisely;
The end comes too soon
There is a limit.
Times is not ours,
it belongs to no man;
It is a gift for now,
So make the most of it
while you can!

Susan B. Peters
8/2002

The woods are lovely and deep,
and I have promises to keep, and mile to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Robert Frost

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

Robert Frost

I put this out there on this board a while ago. He is probably my favorite!

RELUCTANCE

Out through the fields and the woods
And over the walls I have wended;
I have climbed the hills of view
And looked at the world, and descended;
I have come by the highway home.
And lo, it is ended.

The leaves are all dead on the ground,
Save those that the oak is keeping
To ravel them one by one
And let them go scraping and creeping
Out over the crusted snow,
When others are sleeping.

And the dead leave lie huddled and still, Now longer blonw hither and thither;
The last lone aster is gone;
The flowers of the witch hazel wither;
The heart is still aching to seek,
But the feet queston "Whither?"

Ah, when to the heart of man
Was it ever less than a treason
To go with the drift of things,
To yield with a grace to reason,
And bow and accept the end
Of a love or a season?

See You In the Fall

O Autumn splendid
wild and clear;
My True Love
Waits for me
this time of year.
With days full of colors and
nights filled with bliss
I long for his
warm touch and
heavenly lips.

Susan
8/27/02

Susan, I have a suggestion for you. Go to poetry.com, and enter the free contest(s) by submitting your poetry. I am going to be published soon in a book and on an audio CD, and I think you could easily accomplish the same, along with scorp25, Luz, and the other poets whose # I can't remember. All of you are so talented--give this a shot!

-phoenix

Thanks for the flowers, Phoenix. I will consider what you said.

True story. When I graduated this spring from college, I treated myself with a new Dell 7200. I packed the old relick of a puter into the boxes from the new computer. Afterr transfering my files on to floppy disks; I donated the old puter to the Salvation Army. All the stuff I had written poems, love letters, sonnets etc. were on 3 1/2" disk, so I thought!!! The disks were lost and the computer was sold!!!! Uhg! Last thing I ever felt like doing again was writing anything ever again!!! I was sick! It wasn't until today that I wrote anything and that was 3 months ago. Today I got started and couldn't stop! It was like a wild fire. I am still torn up about the lose because it was my heart, and it felt like part of me was missing. Oh well, such is life, I guess?! I heard a beautiful song this morning, and it stayed with me all day. It is by an artist named Maxwell and the song is 'Lifetime' that is what set the mood for me, along with some very seductive daydreams about a man I love! Listen to it if you get a chance.
Susan

There is one other song that inspired me to write today and it is by Macy Gray; title of the track is 'Still'. This meant alot to me! I could relate to this song like so many others!
S.
Time for bed! Goodnight to my West Coast friend.

Susan, your story broke my heart, but I want you to know you are not alone. I have a certain Taurus "friend" (ha), who had everything he ever wrote in his CAR of all places (guess he thought it was more safe from prying eyes there or something). He moved from Medford, OR to Portland, OR a couple years ago (since then has moved back here to Medford). Within a few months of getting settled up there in p-town, his car was broken into and stolen...along with every single special thing he'd ever written. He was devastated of course. Since then he says it has been soooo hard for him to write anything at all. I will tell you the same thing I told him: everything that WAS in your heart and soul, is still there. You have memories of what you wrote, so sit down and try to get it out once again. I know it's not quite the same, but this time around with some persepective, it might even be better. Everything you wrote is still within you. Perhaps it was in God's Plan or the Universe's Plan that your previous writings were lost. There could be a reason for it.

Don't ever stop writing! Chin up, and goodnight! : )