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AlecBell — Declining
Published: 2010-01-18 22:43:34 +0000 UTC; Views: 878; Favourites: 20; Downloads: 6
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Description Her years are ebbing,
her face exposed, a stony beach,
winter deserted.


Memories remain,
keeping secrets from themselves.
The past has faded.
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Comments: 71

blobbikins In reply to ??? [2010-01-20 06:43:49 +0000 UTC]

"collage of identity".
I like that.

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AlecBell In reply to blobbikins [2010-01-20 07:57:38 +0000 UTC]

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spoems In reply to ??? [2010-01-18 23:39:24 +0000 UTC]

and as it fades, the secrets grow bigger.

!

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AlecBell In reply to spoems [2010-01-19 00:11:31 +0000 UTC]

exactly right, Shane!

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Trippy4U [2010-01-18 23:02:04 +0000 UTC]

I'm glad it was a short poem. Memory ya know

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AlecBell In reply to Trippy4U [2010-01-19 00:14:44 +0000 UTC]

It somw times helps if you write it down.

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Trippy4U In reply to AlecBell [2010-01-19 02:58:49 +0000 UTC]

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alapip In reply to ??? [2010-01-18 22:58:58 +0000 UTC]

my memory is fine.
in fact, i remember things
that didn't even happen.

[pretend that's a haiku, please]
that's my reply to your excellence in haikuism.
[it'll have to do, because i'm hungry...]
pip

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AlecBell In reply to alapip [2010-01-19 08:16:22 +0000 UTC]

Aa ever Pip, your comment is apt and accurate, if a little lacking in poetic graces!!

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alapip In reply to AlecBell [2010-01-19 10:49:27 +0000 UTC]

hmph..........hmph..!
WHO, ME?

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AlecBell In reply to alapip [2010-01-19 12:21:06 +0000 UTC]

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spoems In reply to alapip [2010-01-18 23:37:52 +0000 UTC]

lol, i love the reply!!!!!

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AlecBell In reply to spoems [2010-01-19 08:17:16 +0000 UTC]

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alapip In reply to spoems [2010-01-19 00:14:58 +0000 UTC]

thanks, Shane [another Shane???]
oh, well - i'll watch you anyway.

[what is it about Shanes and poetry, i wonder...]

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spoems In reply to alapip [2010-01-19 03:14:21 +0000 UTC]

i'm sure it's the Alan Ladd effect on the baby boom generation. haha!

thanks.

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rlkirkland In reply to ??? [2010-01-18 22:45:15 +0000 UTC]


I doesn't get any better as you get older.

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AlecBell In reply to rlkirkland [2010-01-19 08:14:47 +0000 UTC]

Sadly not

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rlkirkland In reply to AlecBell [2010-01-19 12:40:18 +0000 UTC]

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warhe4d In reply to ??? [2010-01-18 22:44:14 +0000 UTC]

best haiku i've read in a while

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AlecBell In reply to warhe4d [2010-01-19 08:12:17 +0000 UTC]

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