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gemjop
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Pencilveinia, USA

0 posted 2006-01-12 07:31 AM



Aqueous humour changed.

I see no stars wandering about your face anymore

and in a blink I knew, my eyes were

dirty

dry

and

thirsty


so I wept

the disease of knowing

you away.


Dilated - I was pupil

Blurred

taking you in, much too seriously for your art

with final flaws that come with the territory

it is all lost in my eyes.


But I noted - scholar to your kind

you will never focus

nor wean from the sickly drops

of your only heaven

that every star falls behind.


Now Iris, my goddess

has her rainbow encrypted

behind hazel returned

absorbing light - a planets ring

of black

that will swallow you whole

when you look at me

that

way

again..






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RedStoneEB
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since 2003-06-08
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uk
1 posted 2006-01-12 08:00 AM


Haven't read your work in awhile to be honest i haven't read anyones work in a while but then i remembered something we all have our own styles and this is your style simpleness is usually complete i liked the style had this certain pattern to it enjoyed the poem
OwlSA
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since 2005-11-07
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Durban, South Africa
2 posted 2006-01-12 03:34 PM


I think I have understood this one except perhaps for the last stanza.  Amongst all the other qualities of your poem, I enjoyed the interesting blend of physiology (e.g. the title) and the emotions (after all, that is what we are that combination) that you do so well.

I think he has hazel eyes, and that you are saying that Iris, goddess of the rainbow (and of course clever connection with the iris of the eye) has made his aqueous humour dysfunctional (as yours is earlier in the poem) – in other words, it is extremely unlikely that he will look at you that way again .

Whether I am completely off track or not, I wallowed in the sensitive excellence of your beautiful poem.

- Owl

Midnitesun
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Gaia
3 posted 2006-01-12 03:39 PM


always, you offer unique imagery
and this? is a feast for the eyes

littlewing
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since 2003-03-02
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New York
4 posted 2006-01-13 05:25 PM


sounds like out with the old and in with the new . . . tossing away the ghosts, yes?

Its lovely.

Dominique-Simone
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5 posted 2006-01-14 01:48 AM


Now Iris, my goddess

has her rainbow encrypted

behind hazel returned

absorbing light - a planets ring

of black

that will swallow you whole

when you look at me


This poem draws you in...great job

EvocativeVerse2
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since 2003-09-10
Posts 1279

6 posted 2006-01-14 01:52 AM


GENIUS! No more need be said!
iliana
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since 2003-12-05
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USA
7 posted 2006-01-14 01:55 AM


Gemma, you go girl!  This is a tremendous write...you are so very talented!   ...jo
Dark Angel
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since 1999-08-04
Posts 10095

8 posted 2006-01-14 04:15 PM


Absolutely BRILLIANT!

you

m xx

oh, library.

how i would love you, love you as no one ever did! Die and still, love you more. And still love you more..and more
~Neruda~

passing shadows
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displaced
9 posted 2006-04-28 07:18 AM


very neat write!
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