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APW Group Poem

Completed 14 June 1999


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After Midnight


The dark streets are deserted,

life becomes small, still, timid.
Fallon
freshwater, ca. USA - Thu Mar 25 12:11:35 1999
I awaken, arms full of restless radiance
christine
San Matoe, ca USA - Thu Mar 25 15:52:27 1999
remembering a parting embrace
Fallon
freshwater, ca. USA - Fri Mar 26 12:51:50 1999
drifting to darkness, though I do not
christine
san mateo, ca USA - Wed Mar 31 22:53:26 1999
want to sleep and miss my thoughts.
Jaimi
Orono, ME USA - Sun Apr 4 17:18:08 1999

My spirit lurks, like a black cat, ready to pounce in the darkness
Holly
Portsmouth, NH USA - Tue Apr 6 16:52:31 1999
and my soul cries out filled with lonliness and sadness
savannah
USA - Thu Apr 8 13:46:14 1999
resounding in this vast dark and empty place.
Fallon
freshwater, ca USA - Fri Apr 16 23:22:08 1999
I can still hear the screaming
J Miller
USA - Mon Apr 19 09:14:59 1999
of the moon who bled light on my dreams,
Sarah
Sterling, VA USA - Mon Apr 19 16:13:37 1999
and I fall into vortex of half-forgotten dreams
Ron Symons
New Zealand - Thu Apr 22 16:30:05 1999
struggling in vain for something, someone familiar.
Zach Moura
Los Angeles, CA USA - Tue Apr 27 22:42:02 1999

Roaring warplanes appear on screens of my closed sleepless eyes.
Rathnashikamani Bijja
Kalpakkam, Chennai, TN India - Sat May 1 03:51:04 1999
Wakeful in my nightmares, I search for my dear ones I lost.
Rathnashikamani Bijja
Kalpakkam, Chennai, TN India - Sat May 1 03:51:04 1999
Lost in searching, I spin and weave
R. J. Heon
USA - Sat May 1 16:50:45 1999
through this web, longing for simplicity and light into incessant gloom.
Icy
Boston, MA USA - Mon May 3 17:01:23 1999

Then I awaken, drenched in the amber glow of what might have been, and what really appeared in the shadows of my mind.
Holly
Portsmouth, NH USA - Tue May 4 16:47:51 1999
In darkness, I hide
Kana
IL USA - Wed May 5 16:04:23 1999
beneath the roses; the vines are scratching me. There is someone else here too. I am being watched
pam
WI USA - Thu May 6 15:34:54 1999
and with trmbling fingers, part the veil to reveal my own sad and questioning eyes.
michael
freshwater, ca USA - Fri May 7 12:28:53 1999

In a rough translation Chen Zao says, "Man rents his time with the spirit until the bear arrives for its collection."
Ian Wilson
Santa Monica, CA USA - Wed May 12 17:13:58 1999
What then
Mary Evelyn Christianson
Hollywood, CA USA - Wed May 12 17:16:44 1999
will be of the things I dream,
K.D. Reed
USA - Thu May 13 23:08:46 1999
what then will be my hopes, entwined with the truth of my sins?
rebecca p
sulphur, la USA - Sun May 16 18:29:03 1999
Glittering cascades of retribution fall violently from the reaper's ivory fangs,
marcus
Baltimore, MD USA - Sat May 22 20:58:10 1999
cold sparks blurt across a dimmish vault ...
maggie morley
Kensington, CA USA - Mon May 24 21:06:03 1999
and, haggard from disgrace, my visage grows grotesque until
em
richmond, ca USA - Tue May 25 20:19:30 1999
sun streams into my eyes, between the towers
eric
lincoln, ne USA - Tue May 25 20:25:34 1999
and lights shifts through my whole.
rebecca p
sulphur, la USA - Wed May 26 05:13:15 1999

The river is moving again which should summon up familiar words;
D.L.Smika
Santa Monica, CA USA - Wed Jun 2 16:44:56 1999
starlings but no blackbirds,
James Pondo
Newton, MA USA - Wed Jun 2 16:46:46 1999
we return to the dark deserted street, life gone small
C.G. Wilson
Eagle Rock, CA USA - Wed Jun 2 16:50:26 1999
and man become inconsequential; a mustard seed in the vast sphere
Skylar
Harlingen, Tx USA - Thu Jun 3 13:19:42 1999
where he is insignificant lost in a field of dreams that never touched the surface.
Nusaibah Wannyana
Silver Spring, MMMd USA - Sat Jun 5 11:00:07 1999

I want
Jay Rainey
Chicago, iIL USA - Mon Jun 7 17:08:55 1999
to return to the circle; halt this linear walk,
Janis
Pt. Roberts., WA USA - Wed Jun 9 16:55:53 1999
embrace my hopes, my dreams, my fears. . .
Anita
Dallas, TX USA - Thu Jun 10 01:08:18 1999
Oh, yes, my fears.
Anita
Dallas, TX USA - Thu Jun 10 01:08:18 1999