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hecticeclectic · 07/10/2008 22:42:19 Subject: misintentions

i do not mean to be an interrogator,
one who fiercely hunts truths and opinions
while the arrows fall where they may.
i do not mean to be a mistress of word games,
one who dances semantically and seductively behind catchy phrases
while the words fall where they may.
i do not mean to be the woman i sometimes am,
one who insists she is an island and feigns indifference
while the feelings fall where they may.

Peace, Jo

Look up at the sky. Ask yourself, "Has the sheep eaten the flower or not?" And you'll see how everything changes.
And no grown-up will ever understand how such a thing could be so important!
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, THE LITTLE PRINCE

sassyangelac · Messages: 764 Location: Running On The Middle Path

When you put it like that, I actually want you to be her!

hecticeclectic · 08/10/2008 15:32:30 Subject: Re: misintentions

lol Sass...sometimes i am her. sometimes i don't even know who i am.

Peace, Jo

Look up at the sky. Ask yourself, "Has the sheep eaten the flower or not?" And you'll see how everything changes.
And no grown-up will ever understand how such a thing could be so important!
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, THE LITTLE PRINCE

Kindred · Messages: 755 Location: Centered in Everywhere At Once

Oooh.... I ssssooooo understand.

...A Glorious Un-Work in Progress.~*

rich · Messages: 434 Location: Boulder, CO

Welcome back, Angel!

linda gail · Messages: 510

Nice... Did anyone else's mom preach being yourself and then tell you who you were? I actually have a really neat mom - I knew she loved me no matter what; I knew she thought I could be ANYTHING I wanted to be. She grew up really poor, and we were pretty poor at times. There were certain things we absolutely could not do - like talk about people. I've always been one who will burst if I can't say most of what I'm thinking. In my younger days there were many things I didn't really care if I hurt your feelings if I thought you needed to hear it. I hope I've grown up some.

Nice poem. Sometimes you do have to let everything "fall where it may."

What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other? - elliott (I think)

anntinasia · 11/10/2008 11:18:14 Subject: Re: misintentions

Jo, So how many cups of java did you have when you wrote this? LOL

Very wicked cool poem.
I can relate all too well.....
I love how you wind words together.
T

Anntinasia

"Sometimes life calls for an unexpected hat!"

"Everything you can imagine is real."
~Pablo Picasso~

andvari · Messages: 594 Location: a cave in a foggy clear

and in the infamous words of Billy Joel.

"Blame it all on yourself, cause she's always a woman to me."

I have to agree with the Sass on this one, I think it suites you to be her.

A

Do you know what happened to the man who got everything he ever wanted? Willie Wonka

The child is in me still... and sometimes not so still --Fred Rogers--

Nothing-- Nothing's better than when two Completely Empowered people come together with Love on their minds.

hecticeclectic · 12/10/2008 00:09:14 Subject: Re: misintentions

okay, despite being so hyper i am a bit slow at times...'splain Lucy.

Sass and A, don't ya'll think the description makes me seem a bit harsh or cold? i don't want to be cold. not mincing words and shooting straight from the proverbial hip is fine with me, but that letting stuff fall where it may is one i struggle with.

Peace, Jo

Look up at the sky. Ask yourself, "Has the sheep eaten the flower or not?" And you'll see how everything changes.
And no grown-up will ever understand how such a thing could be so important!
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, THE LITTLE PRINCE

Anonymous · 12/10/2008 09:21:35 Subject: Re: misintentions

Cold? Actually I think it was Richard Bach in Illusions who wrote, there is honesty and there is brutality, but there is no such thing as brutal honesty. "Letting things fall where they may," I am not sure I know for sure what you mean by this, there is the image of letting things happen instead of trying to make things happen to your desired intent, something that I have struggled with all of my life, so letting things fall where they may actually sounds pretty good. I guess it is an undertone of you having something that you are suppressing or censoring because you are not sure of the outcome if it is brought out. Be your whole self, that all I am saying.

Andvari

anntinasia · 12/10/2008 12:00:42 Subject: Re: misintentions

JO,
I agree with Sass and A.
"I don't mean to" is woven through out you poem.
I don't find it cold or harsh at all....never entered my mind. I thought, that's Jo......how awesome....
I took it more as rhetorical.......from what I "know" of you......you're a kindred spirit that drinks too much java!!!!!!!!LOL

It's what a lot of us wish we could do if we had the hard heart for it, but we don't.....you don't.....and that's clear to me.
Great Poem.....You got soul, Babe!!!!!!!!!!
T

Anntinasia

"Sometimes life calls for an unexpected hat!"

"Everything you can imagine is real."
~Pablo Picasso~

hecticeclectic · 12/10/2008 15:01:35 Subject: Re: misintentions

Much thanks A and T for shedding light. I love this site and you folks on it for always being so illuminating.

Peace, Jo

Look up at the sky. Ask yourself, "Has the sheep eaten the flower or not?" And you'll see how everything changes.
And no grown-up will ever understand how such a thing could be so important!
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, THE LITTLE PRINCE