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I am gifted with the ability to see beyond the obvious.</tagline><author><name>gautami tripathy</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04192356825699543613</uri></author><modified>2013-05-23T22:11:52+00:00</modified><generator url="http://www.blogger.com">Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">1453</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><feedburner:info xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" uri="blogspot/nsid" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13825130</id><feedburner:emailServiceId 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xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">sunday scribblings</dc:subject><dc:subject xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">One Single Impression</dc:subject><dc:subject xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">magpie tales</dc:subject><dc:subject xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">free verse</dc:subject><dc:subject xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">The Sunday Swirl</dc:subject><dc:subject xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">poets united</dc:subject><author><name>gautami tripathy</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04192356825699543613</uri></author><issued>2013-05-20T08:22:31-07:00</issued><modified>2013-05-20T08:22:31-07:00</modified><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13825130.post-7285722648896491817</id><content type="text/html" mode="escaped">Lighthouse Dandelions by Jamie Wyeth&amp;nbsp;

in the bleak darkness dandelions seem so nebulous

the clouds hover to take away the light

such a vision for someone who is watching from up...&lt;br/&gt;
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do they wish to rekindle&amp;nbsp;

to get that spark back

to get back to that vow made long ago

life now is such a drone

chants are circling around them...&lt;br/&gt;
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moving around, breaking into serrated edges
of the brain, vastness of those thoughts just

about turn around, hitting at the wedges
of time already...&lt;br/&gt;
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I have to decipher&amp;nbsp;

the thousands of messages&amp;nbsp;

hidden in the thunderous clouds





no window dressing&amp;nbsp;

can hide...&lt;br/&gt;
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so transparent

those expressions on their thin faces

joyous now but harrowing a while back



it is so rare to see a newborn in their midst

it hit their marrows...&lt;br/&gt;
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a lifetime spent in the books

sometimes I forget myself

the shock you feel looking at me&amp;nbsp;reading,&amp;nbsp;

on that bed, naked,&amp;nbsp;while I...&lt;br/&gt;
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my words escaped from my thoughts

a few fell on ground

yet some spread their wings flying above the mountains

when they got tired

those word took a...&lt;br/&gt;
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can you hear her sing, O voyeur

or you searching for that smudge

which was made by your inquisitive fingers

each of her nerve ends stand activated

she...&lt;br/&gt;
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what powders I will find in the jars

the now dry petals are still so freshly scented

in my slumber I am lost to the world

stone is cold but my...&lt;br/&gt;
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yesterday disguised as you

receded across nothingness

that hidden wound stirred in mind

like abrasive sand in jar of time

forgotten moments

I...&lt;br/&gt;
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Pablo Picasso&amp;nbsp;

of all the places

I find you here

master of clandestine trysts

words you never wrote on the walls

why I find those in that street?

faint sounds...&lt;br/&gt;
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a window in that water

is it a dream written in part?

a can of paint sprayed away the blues

my body is an outsider in that cold beach

I...&lt;br/&gt;
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I wish I was writing on sand

my blue dress clings to my body

I want wings to fly away

but the dust holds me to blessed coolness

you unbalanced my...&lt;br/&gt;
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a sublime moment of truth


tears into the limits

pieces of patience

tests the heroic prophets

loneliness is stealing into the heart

dry eyes find...&lt;br/&gt;
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he never ever said that

but I had heard

he gifted me a coral beaded on a thread

I would have preferred a plume

such a rare thing to give

why can't he pour his feelings from a...&lt;br/&gt;
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a burden really one has to carry

no one to fuss.

miserable holds no meaning

sweet charisma prove nothing

a straight road twisted with enough interest

a wish

all within the...&lt;br/&gt;
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lost in the vinyls

she looks out into her past

trapped in the circle of life

she does not not subscribe to sadness

everything can be said but it is never ever...&lt;br/&gt;
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like a drunk, I gravitate my naked feelings&amp;nbsp;

towards that ditch of feelings

my mind's breaks have failed

I am unable to hold on that...&lt;br/&gt;
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far away trees sway on the mountain top&amp;nbsp;

scent of nature fill into him

held by that red chair,&amp;nbsp;he escapes

falls in a heap outside that window

flecks of dust are a sight to...&lt;br/&gt;
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not much to recommend

hollow walls never tell tales

although brook in the woods does

I never notice leaping birds in rocky path

dry land does not interest them

when we get to...&lt;br/&gt;
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lights jumped all around her


the pain was excruciating

narrow beams struggled to grow wider

she wished to taste the sky

but was nailed to the earth


she felt as...&lt;br/&gt;
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something explodes

you smile with brittle charm

my fever for you is unbearable

rustle of the willows

scare away the scarecrows

strange it might be

but the piercing...&lt;br/&gt;
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why is your pulse racing

why do you feel so lethargic

woman, what is wrong with you

you sweet face is so pale

you lie lifeless



I wish to heal you

a doctor in...&lt;br/&gt;
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feeling of tenderness long dissipated

incense sticks help me in my prayers

with a dazed look

I sprinkle holy water every where

my ambivalence empties itself into...&lt;br/&gt;
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I long for you

in the fractured &amp;nbsp;links of my mind

thinking you would fill in the gaps

and mend the holes

wishful thinking on...&lt;br/&gt;
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