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ray-shepard
ray-shepard
Married 46 years. Retired from "official" work, but continue teaching Tai Chi Ch'uan, writing poetry, walking and reading. I also meditate regularly, cast I-Ching and explore the inner universe.
Such luscious lips, with pinkish glow! She's beautiful. Her chapped lips,  faucet like, cascade only words of kindness.. She's beautiful. Such pretty,alluring eyes! She's beautiful. Her heavy-lidded eyes : a pair of lenses capturing only great sharp shots, they see clearly only the good in people.. They never despise. She's beautiful. Such a lovely, curvaceous figure! She's beautiful. Within the slim figure,  is a soul who'll share her food with the hungry, even if it means she'll be left with nothing for dinner. She's beautiful. Beauty is only skin deep..
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Feb 13, 2015
Feb 13, 2015 at 5:19 AM UTC
Beauty Is Only Skin Deep
Uncertainty fills the air And suddenly I'm not so sure. Nostalgia begins to decay But why? Heavy, heavier... I inhale and sigh with, what, exasperation? Creation? These are all mere distractions To prevent myself from colliding With myself, With how I feel. Emotional trauma, Part I - Coming soon to a childhood near you! We laugh it off But it does not leave us. Nothing can leave us As easily as you walked away That night. I will not forget what I saw. Engraved in my brain Causing me to crumble Tumble, tumble... Crash.
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Feb 10, 2015
Feb 10, 2015 at 6:53 AM UTC
Crash
I wonder what's out of reach due to my refusal to let go of you. Maybe I have my hands full. I can see you grasping for something too. do you miss me? Your voice is what I fell in love with first. fresh like water to quench my thirst. A voice that was so full of Love Now all your words are slurred. You only call me when you're drunk. Because you're not thinking straight. I want to hear the Love again, But I'm afraid that it's to late. I want you to be safe but I'm not ready For you to get sober. What if then, This is all over. I don't care if I'm only your Baby when you're drunk. I'm drunk on you. I don't care No, I don't care what you do. Just Please Don't stop calling I'll never stop falling more and more in love with you. © copyrighted Nicole Ann Osborn
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Nov 9, 2014
Nov 9, 2014 at 6:01 AM UTC
Handfull
I hope tomorrow day,      you ***** all the words      you whispered to me      the night before      and may your heart      be filled with definite pain      for all the things you never did.
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Nov 9, 2014
Nov 9, 2014 at 5:50 AM UTC
October 20th
Love Him so,      with such depth;      they take root      in the earth’s crust      and make them tremble. Make it so,      that the devil, shaken,      took to great      measures      seeking His touch.
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Nov 9, 2014
Nov 9, 2014 at 5:49 AM UTC
October 26th
A lifetime of wrongs Wrought by insensitive hands. Grasping like prongs And, well, as it stands, I'm ******* ****** There's nothing left but this. All the chances, you missed. So give my fist a kiss. You're gonna bleed, you're gonna die I'll burn your past, I'll skin you live, Before you open that mouth and ask "why", I don't care, take a ******* dive. I can't stand you breathing You made me mad, and don't you see? It all ends, in a ****** wreathing. And you bet your *** you'd better be scared of me.
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Nov 8, 2014
Nov 8, 2014 at 9:40 PM UTC
Unforgiven
I know you have been homeless all you're life but make my heart you're new home
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Nov 8, 2014
Nov 8, 2014 at 9:38 PM UTC
Untitled
I sense the Presence eye cannot see the essence of this observance. What does this Observer think of me as I pause to drink at the stream of consciousness? Do I have an identity. or am i one of many? Is it merely my body. or is my essential me. seen and noted? All I can do in answer is to be Me.
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Sep 30, 2014
Sep 30, 2014 at 7:26 AM UTC
Seen by an Unknown Observer
As a child, I loved those puzzles, The ones where you trace a line through a maze to reach a goal. If you hit a blockage, Back you go, to try again. Again, again, you know that it's there, that elusive final prize, You just have to find the right path. In life, though, you can't just erase that line, It's a lifeline, others are clinging to it, You brought them with you, You can't just erase their world. There is no 'try again', so you find yourself, Up against a wall, and you stay. You don't want to be there, You took a wrong turn somewhere, You can hear and see where you should be, So close, but there's no way through. They seem so simple, those puzzles, It looked like the right way, But now you're stuck there Staring at a wall, Willing it to fall.
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Jun 13, 2014
Jun 13, 2014 at 8:54 AM UTC
Life, and Lines