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Take life day by day, one step at a time...
It's a free verse for us all, lets move to the rhyme.
Look at the phrase and see what it means...
After taking each word for just what it seems.

Make a story out of life, and tell it out loud...
Write with an accent and in your chapter be proud.
If empty the stage then speak to the wind...
Let the ephemeral clauses be as your kin.

We've woven the song, the poem, the art...
Entitled 'Of Life, As Felt By the Heart'.
Held by the colors, and shaded in greys...
Comedy, tragedy- the greatest of all plays.

If you can sing, form a melody and sustain...
If you can hum, harmonize a rephrane.
If you clap your hands or tap your feet...
You'll be making the rhythm, the pulse, the heartbeat.

We've all got the same chance to listen...
And each have a chance to shine, to glisten.
Like teaching, playing, working or saying...
Regarding that vision, knowledge, dream that we're giving.

Hope makes a connection and time closes the door...
But more eyes open to the masterpiece we live for.
It's a tale without end and a letter without a destination to send...
It's within, without, a solo grace, and duet with a friend.

What makes the difference is not from beginning to end...
Not so much the answer we learn or the question we send.
It's the notice that's given to more than ourselves...
If life is a library our spirit has filled its shelves.
©2009 ~Shawn-Reed
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Prompted by Bundle-W lately, due to the fact that I haven't submitted anything in a while, I've come to feel an inner push to accomplish some art I can share. This I actually wrote two weekends ago while at the coffee shop in town. Kindof... one of those spur of the moment types. It feels cliche, but it also feels good to get some poetry out once in a while. :D And thanks, B, for gently coaxing me to post this.

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:iconbundle-w:
You're most welcome.
It's really thoughtful of you to mention me in the comments.
By the way, we're even regarding who's submitted more ;)

"Entitled 'Of Life, As Felt By the Heart'." I liked that line.

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"...The spirit sought not then, in cherished sadness
A cloudy subsitute for failling gladness..."
-William Wordsworth
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It seems fair that we tied...
Y'know... what I had wanted to ask of you (commission?) - a photo dev-ID of you.

:) Now, if I can just update my journal... ^_^
:iconbundle-w:
Hmmnn...I don't really do commissions....I never have enough inspiration for that. But, I can upload a few of the pictures I've taken lately. :)

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"...The spirit sought not then, in cherished sadness
A cloudy subsitute for failling gladness..."
-William Wordsworth
:iconshawn-reed:
*nodding* Well, what I really mean that I was hoping for was a picture of yourself. It seems maybe you wish to be anonymous, here, and I hoped to ask, in a small way, that you become a tangible, humanistic presence...

Still, I thank you for reading my poems and... err, I still can't read what you write in Espaniol. ^_^' But don't lose that sometimes, you do.
:iconbundle-w:
And do you think I didn't know that's what you would have liked? Anyway, there is a pic of me (where I look better than in real life) somewhere in DevArt (taken about 6 years ago) that you saw once... So that's all there will be for now.
Also, I'll try to keep posting other poems and maybe a few more pics in the next few days. About my poem in Spanish, I tried to translate it but it did not really work. I'll give it another try, though, and let you know.

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"...The spirit sought not then, in cherished sadness
A cloudy subsitute for failling gladness..."
-William Wordsworth
:iconshawn-reed:
:D I had to try, though. Oh well.

Hopefully I'll also be able to keep posting works, though I've started in on another cardgame... a creative hobby of mine (creating ccgs). Unfortunately, they can't go up here on deviantart ('cause I don't want to deal with copyrights of other people's awesome art and thus, needs to remain private use)

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