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icebox
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since 2003-05-03
Posts 4383
in the shadows

0 posted 2019-07-17 12:08 PM




Long weekends of treats and dreams,
champagne scenes,
crafted empty promises theatrically disguised

as sighs and gentle whispers,
intermittent rhythmic screams,

passions' lies
fading in harsh daylight's sting,
raw wrath's cold aftermath;

talons of memory
ripping shreds of credibility,
slashing certainty to bloodied bits
in threads and shreds of shattered hopes,

until ache squeezed silent tears
on bits of scattered fears washed onto un-lived years,
in piles of detritus dried on ebb line's waning tides.

Do you remember when the music stopped?


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augustsky
Senior Member
Posts 828
midwest US
1 posted 2019-07-18 02:07 PM


Ice, An emotional sting this was indeed..
'talons of memory'..really like that metaphor.


well written Poet


Sky~

A Poem Begins as a
Lump in the Throat,
A Sense of Wrong,
A Home-Sickness,
A Love-Sickness.


~Robert Frost

Michael
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666
California
2 posted 2019-07-18 11:28 PM


I remember well.
Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California
3 posted 2019-07-31 01:03 AM


Yes, I do.

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