Forgetting is the easy part;
remembering's what's hard
enough to make me wish I could
forget you and depart.
A contest entry
- Invite Only! For Those I Consider Some Of The Best Writers On The Site ! by Cupcrazy.
3500 points, ended September 18, 2008, 17 entries
Honorable mention
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So much said in 4 amazing lines!
I get visuals reading this and the bg is so fitting....
What I really love about this is that it made me think....
Thank you for entering this excellent piece!
Lynda
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Thanks, Je me souviens (I remember) is what's really on Quebec plates so this is a take-off on that phrase.
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Well this is quite beautiful and very enigmatic hun. There is something about it, I can't quite put my finger on it. But it goes back and forth in my mind like I know the answer, have had the emotion before, and am not sure if I could go there again. Even in its brevity this piece speaks volumes. A great take on the prompt hun, hugs, Bunny
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gives the impression
your hanging on to something you wish would go away and spare you what you can't give up on your own. Love has a way of possessing us at times, it is it's own entity, comes and goes when it wants to.
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I am sitting here reading this over and over. I can't sum up what it is doing here in my mind, but I'll try...
The grammar and punctuation make it enigmatic. It seems to have two or three simple meanings, but they float in and out of view. My eyes look to lines two and four, expecting them to rhyme, finding that they are assonant, and that the very last word has a component which is the same as the last word in line 1... and so I follow the poem round for a second reading... a third.
It is like a quatrain seen on a wall in a dream. The simplest things can sometimes be the most breathtaking.
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Are you a Quebecer?
Parlez vous francais?
Je suis le Nouveau Brunswick.
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Un peu... I grew up near the border and spent a lot of time with friends in Bromont.
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Well I'm glad you didn't reply in Freach because I am limited to what I learned in Junior High School and that was oh so long ago. lol
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Not much chance of that; any French I had has been totally overwritten by the German at this point; I even felt compelled to check if "un peu" was right. lol.
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Ein Bißchen.
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It all depends on what you're trying to forget. I find remembering the good things people can do is difficult but it's easy to dwell on the negative.
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