Michelle

Traces

Friday, January 25, 2008 6:11:04 PM

they laughed, they cried,
they desired
to unbutton their shirts
and loosen their petticoat
laces

and let soft things slip
between the forked paths
of their fingers

and where they wandered
they left traces.
shiny stones, feathered strands,
sticky, honeyed stalactites.

shadows, ghosts,
mirror mosaics, misted apples
all lost to them

subtly replaced by memories;
nestled behind the eye

Just an Ordinary Day"Let Me Tell You a Secret"

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scott cummingI_ArtMan # Friday, January 25, 2008 8:30:24 PM

very evocative and light. good writing kid.

Frameshift Productions # Friday, January 25, 2008 9:41:01 PM

reminds me of Corpse Bride. good poem

Darkogdare # Friday, January 25, 2008 9:43:37 PM

A feather of ZWEET bird?

Rhona Kirstenrhona # Friday, January 25, 2008 11:34:06 PM

Excuse me, Michelle. U wrote that?

U r truely fabulous!! Very sensual

:bravo:

Rippripp2002 # Saturday, January 26, 2008 3:23:15 AM

made my heart skip a beat

Martin Ouellettemartinouellette # Saturday, January 26, 2008 4:42:53 AM

It's very nice poem Michelle. I like it.

(with dots and commas and all - impressive!)

JDjrd2498 # Saturday, January 26, 2008 4:47:51 AM

that is an awesome poem, i wish i can right as well as you can Michelle.

Darkogdare # Saturday, January 26, 2008 6:50:17 AM

*oh, everyone is commenting on poem except me*
Ahem... Nice poem. Do you write poetry often?

Jose Antonioantonio4602 # Saturday, January 26, 2008 11:54:32 AM

Greetings, to the girl who loves coffee, hope all is well
in your part of the world, take care and keep drinking, "coffee"
you should write a short poem about ,our most magnificent drink
coffee.as I told you in the past, my family cultibates coffee,

MichelleCapegirl # Saturday, January 26, 2008 6:28:54 PM

scott>>thank you so much! i'm glad you enjoyed reading it. I enjoyed writing it

FP> Corpse Bride huh? I'll take that as a complment then

Darko> at least you commented on the picture

not the ZWEET bird, no...guinea fowl feather. the "KAK-KAK-KAK" bird

kak-kak-kak-kak early in the morning. nutty birds. yes i write lots of all kinds, this was more a rambling or as i like to refer to it: a "tumbling"

Rhona? awwrh thanks love, that means a lot. sensual? i guess so. i was in need of a brain hemisphere shift i think. too much brain not enough heart never suits me for very long

i need vacations.

LC??? LC??? are you still alive??? do you need CPR??? (oh lord, how long before the mouth-to-mouth jokes begin)

Martin> i write poems both with and without punchies

the best things i write have none ;-)the fewer there are the more spontaneous i'm being at the time...

Antonio>>yes! i DO remember about the coffee! i think i might have a coffee poem somewhere,

MichelleCapegirl # Saturday, January 26, 2008 6:31:51 PM

Jose i left you out!

i bet you could write some

i just bet you could...

MichelleCapegirl # Saturday, January 26, 2008 6:34:22 PM

TO ALL:

Does anybody else write poetry? I'm thinking of starting an Opera blog for poetry. Is anybody interested? I don't care if it's good or bad, just that it's a form of self-expression for you. Maybe a poetry and photography blog would be fun?

I could link us all up so we can all post on there, whatever and whenever we wanted to.

Well let me know

Martin Ouellettemartinouellette # Saturday, January 26, 2008 10:33:10 PM

J'en suis.

MichelleCapegirl # Sunday, January 27, 2008 12:02:15 AM

and for our first combined effort: "J'en Suis" by Martin and Michelle

J'en suis

I am

Rhona Kirstenrhona # Sunday, January 27, 2008 12:18:42 AM

Ur welcome

No poetry I'm afraid

Rippripp2002 # Sunday, January 27, 2008 2:44:56 AM

poetry?

I cant even spell the word

JDjrd2498 # Sunday, January 27, 2008 4:24:34 AM

Sorry K i am not really into writing poetry. I am maybe the worst writier ever.

But i better at other things.

Rippripp2002 # Sunday, January 27, 2008 4:42:31 AM

Jared, come on, you are not the worst ever! Maybe the second worst to me but not the worst

Martin Ouellettemartinouellette # Sunday, January 27, 2008 5:38:34 AM

I appreciate your effort Michelle....

But to cut the hair in 4 like we say here I have to specify
that I said. "I'm in".

Je suis= I am
J'en suis= I'm part of it

Very small detail isn't?

A little "n" can change a whole sentence,
Change a whole life!
The comment and the comments following it are deviated
God the title of the post may have to be changed too!
It may create a misunderstanding bigger than the subject itself
Bigger than the reason of the fight!
Above the opinions of the crowd - as far as you can see
This little "n" may move mountains who knows
Ohhhh, Ohhhh, little "n"..
Have mercy

Ok.. I want to add, this is not a poem. (oh.. you knew?)
Anyway, stay careful the little "n" still around.....

MichelleCapegirl # Sunday, January 27, 2008 10:09:17 AM

Tell it to the Marines, Frenchie!!!!

If you want me to understand you, say it in English. Otherwise I'll have to put it through the Tower of Garble and we both know that's a crap shoot.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/I_love_you_American_Sign_Language.jpg/541px-I_love_you_American_Sign_Language.jpg -

MichelleCapegirl # Sunday, January 27, 2008 10:10:38 AM

Lc, Rhona and Jose. you guys can post pictures! or LC can set up a joke blog for us, huh?

Rhona Kirstenrhona # Sunday, January 27, 2008 1:11:17 PM

Oooo... u always have good ideas Michelle

Rippripp2002 # Sunday, January 27, 2008 2:48:22 PM

I know nothing about jokes

Michelle, I was wondering, in the picture that you just posted; what did the girl use her tonque for? :eyes:a snow cone or a taco? whistle:

MichelleCapegirl # Sunday, January 27, 2008 3:03:26 PM

you don't know american sign language? you know...

ASL

who knows..windowlicking?

Rippripp2002 # Sunday, January 27, 2008 3:53:54 PM

That might be the single most universal sign in the american launguage. I wonder do you know what it means?

Or just think you do?

ASL (meaning, hrmm):
A slow lick
Ass suck and lick
A Stupid Loser
A stunning licker
A standing line
A Sucky Loser
A Sucking Loser
A stupid Lephrechaun
A Stunning Lady

I could go on and on. If the picture was of you I would know which one of the listed it is

Since it is not I will pick number 4.

Of course that one would be

I forgot.

PS, there is no drool so it can not be for window licking.

MichelleCapegirl # Sunday, January 27, 2008 5:13:12 PM

i only know what it meant to me:

a "cheeky, i love ya" to Martin. just a gesture of solidarity. i'm not an American so i don't really care what it means there or how it's been distorted.

i hope nobody was offended by my ignorance of the seedier side of life.

JDjrd2498 # Sunday, January 27, 2008 5:27:56 PM

Yeap K you always do have good ideas. Oh i just got my new phone with a camera that has 1.3 miga pixcels.

Hey do you mind if i add you to my freinds list.

MichelleCapegirl # Sunday, January 27, 2008 5:57:58 PM

oh great! then you can take some pics, now! lovely. sure thing. i'll add you too

Martin Ouellettemartinouellette # Sunday, January 27, 2008 6:33:50 PM

Rippripp2002 # Sunday, January 27, 2008 7:19:48 PM

old man here. How the sign has been distorted? Interesting way of thinking about that. The sign is nothing bad but ok just the same.

MichelleCapegirl # Sunday, January 27, 2008 7:33:45 PM

who knows anymore darling

i think the gangs use it upside down or something..but i'm so far from a gangsta it's just not funny. possibly it means just the same to them in some even weirder sense. i'm going to take a bubble bath and chill

Rippripp2002 # Sunday, January 27, 2008 7:54:07 PM

do you know what a web cam is, streaming video, still shots?

MichelleCapegirl # Sunday, January 27, 2008 7:57:25 PM

blackout curtains

Rippripp2002 # Sunday, January 27, 2008 8:03:06 PM

sweet!!! that way I will be the only person to see. You are so smart, I am glad we think along the same lines

Fatimahzenya # Sunday, January 27, 2008 8:31:51 PM

great poem
I hope you submit it to a magazine

Thanks for sharing

Rhona Kirstenrhona # Monday, January 28, 2008 9:14:50 AM

Ripp, who said that photo is not Michelle?

They use it to the side Michelle

Darkogdare # Monday, January 28, 2008 9:44:27 AM

Red hair?

Rhona Kirstenrhona # Monday, January 28, 2008 10:01:23 AM

Her user pic could be a ploy

Or she might have coloured it for the fingers photo

MichelleCapegirl # Monday, January 28, 2008 10:36:47 AM

thanks Fati. maybe i will, indeed! :)thanks for the support!

Rhona, aren't those the gangsta rappers? to the side? i meant the real gangsters. the syndicates, cuban, mexican etc. hardcore gangs.i saw on a documentary them using it upside down. or maybe that was an inverted devil. no gang know-how here....i own a red bandanna. that's about it

and i bought it to support cancer research...

all these pics might be a ploy. i might really just be a typing head-learning how to blog with my mouth.

as far as i know this means "I LOVE YOU" though i think the hand is supposed to be the other way around. not sure. the photo is tagged with: "I love you" actually. and was taken at a Love festival. in SA sign language we have a similar sign for "party" but it's not quite the same.

Rhona Kirstenrhona # Monday, January 28, 2008 10:38:16 AM

Oh yeah, maybe Michelle

MichelleCapegirl # Monday, January 28, 2008 10:45:25 AM

Rippripp2002 # Monday, January 28, 2008 11:31:21 PM

Nothing says love like a woman with her tonque hanging out waiting for a "blowpop"

Not sure about the head-blogger. I was thinking more along the lines of a 800 pound transvestite with a hump on its back.

Rhona Kirstenrhona # Tuesday, January 29, 2008 12:34:30 PM

'Blowpop'? Honestly Ripp, where do u learn these things?

MichelleCapegirl # Tuesday, January 29, 2008 1:16:18 PM

you know last night as i was feeling very old and nerdy, (what, the hell, i wondered have i been doing all these years, that has left me so ignorant of smut slang?)....

i wondered the same thing. then i realised it's not me who's CRAZY. do you make these things up Ripp? because if so i suggest you quit your job and start a website or write a book. you'll make millions. and i'm actually being quite serious

Rhona Kirstenrhona # Tuesday, January 29, 2008 1:49:44 PM

Make it up? He trains them !!

JDjrd2498 # Tuesday, January 29, 2008 2:11:08 PM

that is so funny

MichelleCapegirl # Tuesday, January 29, 2008 2:21:28 PM

back later for this one..working

Rippripp2002 # Tuesday, January 29, 2008 4:22:24 PM

Capey, you might not have missed too much for not knowing "smut term", it probably means you have been educated correctly or have "more morals" then I.

How in the world can I write a book? All I hear is the constant whining about my lack of punctuation, spelling, and everything else regarding the written word?

rhona, I am sure someone used "blowpop" far before I wrote it down yesterday. It just fit with the sentence and my desire NOT to be more crude.

rhona, your link doesnt work. You need to increase the bandwidth at my school so I can view it

MichelleCapegirl # Tuesday, January 29, 2008 4:33:10 PM

get a ghostwriter! thank you very much for desiring to not be more crude

Rippripp2002 # Tuesday, January 29, 2008 4:45:34 PM

ghosts cant write

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