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Published: 2004-03-31 09:07:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 104; Favourites: 0; Downloads: 40
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Writing the BooksStrolling through these desolate yards, I hear it
Resounds and echoes of the past, retelling the story
Listen with dignified attention and you can hear it
The pain and joy of past times radiating from these homes
Walking these shadows, hiding from scanning eyes
I catch glimpses into the past, forever etched into the earth
Centuries from now, these will be the ruins
The treasures discovered by a future paleontologist
Picking and prodding; studying and testing
Searching for reason in what we feel is sensible
We are already artifacts; ancient in the books
Our actions are the pens of the history books
Deciphering a generationβs image with decisions
A picture is worth a thousand words, butβ¦
A paragraph is worth is million seconds
Cutting and shaping a story for briefness
A rapid succession of descriptions of decisions
Step carefully, someone is watching you and recording
Capturing the moment, you are writing the books of history
Writing the books of the past with the future
Speak with dignity, because your sounds to will resound
Your actions will echo, to someone someday
As they stroll the fields of the future, attentively listening
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Comments: 17
this is an awesome piece...i like your style-im actually a writer at heart even though i have barely any of my writing on here...but you have a similar style to me-i really enjoy it...and also-i hear theyre going to make the rum diaries into a movie also-that should be awesome
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thank you, im glad you like my style...i would like to read something of yours sometime...and rum diaries into a movie, that would be sweet. i havent gotten to that book yet, but its on my long list, haha
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this was very nice and circular, speeding up in the middle and slowing down at the end. i like this a lot. also, it reminds me of this book we read in elementary school about paleontologists of the future, finding the simple artefacts of our time like a toilet seat lid or a coffee machine and finding the most ridiculous theories of what they once were. So speak carefully. it makes sense. i like this a lot.
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this is cool. great feel to it. the only things that bothered me were the repititions of book. maybe you were just trying to state it clearly that we are history and make your mark, etc., but i think it'd be better without.
having said that, great insight into the effects of words and the resonance of writing. "a paragraph is worth a million seconds" is a great line, but fiddle with it (if you can be bothered) because it seems like it could be an amazing line. if that makes sense
nice time too. not too long and the lines are sufficiently lengthy. but not so long as to burn my grey cells.
anyways, NUFF SAID.
cool
p.s h s thompson is incredible. read the rum diary. not as good as fear and loathing in las vegas, or hells angels, but a freakin good read.
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thanks a lot for your comment. it is always nice to get comments that give me insight into what i need to do
and about HS Thompson, yes...he is an excellent writer. now i am reading a newer one titled "Fear and Loathing in America" i want read both The Rum Diary and Hells Angels, but im just finishing up the other 5 books im reading, hahaha
thanks again for your comment...peace
mike
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if you like F&L in america, give F&L on the campaign trail. its one big read, and far more political, but just as punchy.
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yeah, my friend has ir and i was gunna read that as well before skool is up because then i wont have to buy my own copy. haha...peace
mike
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Great perspective of time and its relation to the future being now as the now becomes the past all rolled up into the chaotic affect of every interaction creating the unstoppable story of history. Each story is a story of stories for the eternity of existence...
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hehe, thanks...glad you liked it. i started with something quite simple and it always goes deeper. for some reason that always happens to me when i write. the surface is never the true meaning, but meh...oh well...thanks again 
mike
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The pain and joy of past times radiating from these homes
*Dont walk in my yard.
I think this was quite deep and more than I expected. YOu started off with the simple concept of wondering through yards, maybe a neighborhood. Then, when you wrap it up at the end with "As they stroll the fields of the future, attentively listening" and I find out that all along it was a metaphor for life and the past and future. I liked that surprize, good one.
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thanks...i will walk through anyone's yard if it makes my path shorter, hehe 
mike
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to quote a mayan artist.........
"through art I shall live forever, here I stand my friends, a singer, from my
heart I strew my songs before the face of others, I carve a great stone,
I paint thick wood, my song is in them"
this is what struck me when I read this...your life echoes in your work...you have a talent
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that is a very cool quote...thanks for saying i have a talent, that really means a lot to me 
mike
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let us not put everything into the digital age, books still hold the most powerful stories in my mind.
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im not saying they don't...i think books do as well...im just trying to say that our actions today and what we decide for the future us writing the history books...i think you got the wrong message, sorry if you did... thanks for the comment 
mike
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I'm just really tired at the minute, (I keep saying that but I'm not getting closer to the bed). I was agreeing that books and our history/future is and will be filled with them.
umm... P.S. I'm a tired idiot and I like your poem.
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haha, i too am a tired person striving for sleep but with non-drowsy eyes...im glad you like it, i just didnt want you to get that idea because i would prefer to NOT allow everything to go digital...sorry again
mike
ps reply: you are not an idiot, tired, but not an idiot
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