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Bittersweet, and poignant....ah, I revel in such angst!
~Mama.Dragonfly487
posted by
Mama.Dragonfly
on August 8, 2005 at 7:34 AM
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NCwriter,thanks, I want to put those feelings into some other writing beyond the blog. I don't feel at all bad about this episode.
posted by
Azur
on August 8, 2005 at 7:15 AM
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MayB,
Now you need to spend time writing about how you really feel about it all now. What emotions has it stirred up inside of you? How are you feeling about the relationship you chose? etc. That's where the good stuff comes to the surface and it can really be a cleansing thing....
posted by
NCwriter
on August 8, 2005 at 6:53 AM
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Meringue, this fire had its day.
Hemlocker, I agree. I think writing is love and love is writing.
johnmcnab, it was not deliberate.
MysticGmekeepr
not even maybe, ever ;-)
posted by
Azur
on August 7, 2005 at 9:27 AM
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DaveCryer. A moment that any living, loving adult can have. It can take them by surprise. Behind everyday pleasantries passion fizzes. Thanks for your comments. I value your understanding.
This gives me hope that I may yet write, I mean really write.
posted by
Azur
on August 7, 2005 at 9:23 AM
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Jimsonweed, thank you. I wonder how people can express that if they never feel it. I am grateful for such experiences that they can fuel the writing
posted by
Azur
on August 7, 2005 at 9:17 AM
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Ben, there are times to have a go and times not to have a go
posted by
Azur
on August 7, 2005 at 9:16 AM
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avante-garde, you nailed it exactly.
posted by
Azur
on August 7, 2005 at 9:15 AM
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Katray, thank you. It was that intense
posted by
Azur
on August 7, 2005 at 9:14 AM
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Tapsel-T, it's interesting that readers like the illicit
posted by
Azur
on August 7, 2005 at 9:13 AM
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Joe Love, no you're not dense. Perhaps I did not express it well. It means that while there are still thoughts of a "romantic" nature that we cannot be friends
posted by
Azur
on August 7, 2005 at 9:12 AM
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Tigerprincess, strange I gave that impression as I spoke of the couples. The next step you mention -- it will not be so.
posted by
Azur
on August 7, 2005 at 9:09 AM
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Pat B, I think it can be acknowledged without further action
posted by
Azur
on August 7, 2005 at 9:06 AM
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MerryAnne, that's right
posted by
Azur
on August 7, 2005 at 9:04 AM
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symphony, thank you ;-)
posted by
Azur
on August 7, 2005 at 9:04 AM
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Benzinha, sometimes the world can turn in a minute. I express what can take place in a seemingly innocuous conversation amid the minutiae of the day. A moment set apart
posted by
Azur
on August 7, 2005 at 9:03 AM
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Littlemspickles, thanks, or chick-lit perhaps?
posted by
Azur
on August 7, 2005 at 9:00 AM
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what an intriguing encounter...
it would make a great setting for a romantic comedy! just say that it's all fictitious! - except we'd know!!!!
posted by
littlemspickles
on August 7, 2005 at 1:44 AM
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Intriguing.... hope you have some good days off!
posted by
Ca88andra
on August 6, 2005 at 11:02 PM
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May, ooooooooo, was that P.S. for us or for him??!?!?
That flicker, that scarey, earthquaking tiny flicker. That family dissolving, fantasy building flicker. Scarey.....P.S. See you later, in a few days.....daze?
posted by
benzinha
on August 6, 2005 at 10:56 AM
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oooh this is good, I want to read much more....
posted by
_Symphony_
on August 6, 2005 at 10:23 AM
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See you in a couple of days...
and what an interesting encounter. the spark that you can't possible let ignite.
posted by
MerryAnne
on August 6, 2005 at 9:50 AM
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writing is love
or at least an expression of it. Competing with love, as in trying to hide it or ignore it or control it or deny it, is like trying to put the toothpaste back, to retrieve lost time, etc... Can't actually be done. As Lola said, when she was trying to tempt -- "give in. Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets, ..."
posted by
Pat_B
on August 6, 2005 at 7:24 AM
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Fiction or reality,where there is a flicker,there will be fire:)
posted by
Meringue
on August 6, 2005 at 2:32 AM
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Wait, he's single right? You're single? This is the impression I'm getting, but your blog is hinting at the voice of a tortured lover that you know in the next scene is going to run, jet, fly, skip, or whatever else to his door.
posted by
tigerprincess
on August 5, 2005 at 10:16 PM
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Didn't catch it
I might be dense here, but I didn't quite grasp what you meant by, "Not while there is a flicker".
posted by
Joe_Love
on August 5, 2005 at 10:01 PM
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difficult dealing with
these kinds of emotions. Love and writing are not mutually exclusive. They need each other, at least at some time in our lives. Hemlocker
posted by
Hemlocker
on August 5, 2005 at 7:57 PM
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Great story, well done, MayB. You make the readers want you to see each other again.
posted by
TAPS.
on August 5, 2005 at 7:30 PM
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Fascinating story May
The "eyes" line is powerful. Non-verbal contact speaks strongly. Wise decision to maintain a distance...
Thank you for sharing. ;)
posted by
Katray2
on August 5, 2005 at 7:23 PM
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MayB
I do love the intriguing 'see you in a couple of days,' ms 'Not Ever.'
posted by
johnmacnab
on August 5, 2005 at 4:21 PM
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good post
sometimes letting it go is to keep it.
posted by
avant-garde
on August 5, 2005 at 3:47 PM
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While life is still young, let's have a go at it.
Ben.
posted by
A-and-B
on August 5, 2005 at 3:45 PM
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That was really good!
I like the part where your eyes were feeding each other! You should continue that!
posted by
SomeoneElse
on August 5, 2005 at 3:43 PM
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MayB, that was intensely rich, intensely charged with the workaday, everyday kind of scene that makes our own hearts race and fight. Suffused with caged-in emotion. And hopes. And teeth-clanging, hand-sweeping pleasantries. Regret and memory. And he shouldn't have let that slip.
Big picture-small fry... such an oxymoron of shakespearian proportions, loaded on a huge spoon of emotion.
And then the spark.
Yes, buzz about. Buzz like a hive.
You are absolutely, unutterably right: It can't be.
Oh yes, a normal encounter.
posted by
_dave_says_ack_
on August 5, 2005 at 3:37 PM
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MayB
not even maybe?
posted by
MysticGmekeepr
on August 5, 2005 at 3:21 PM
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