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Grinch
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0 posted 2007-07-22 06:43 PM



Hands are clasped in my submission,
Chords cut loose to deities,
Unheard whimpers in this prison
A pin amid cacophonies.

Bruises breed amid lost brothers,
Hollow eyes front broken minds
Kissed by boots but not by mothers,
Blessed in death, by His designs

Bamboo batons play their madness
On the bloody and abused.
Ten thousand miles beyond mere sadness
And twice that past confused.

Night and darkness bring the reapers,
Deaths’ harbingers; fur lined cravats,
Weaving corpses from the weepers
Those meek inheritors, the rats.

Sleep just brings forgotten faces,
How could my memory cheat me so?
A family lost, familiar places
Blur more each day, then fade, then go.

Are we forgotten blurred or fading,
Forlorn carved names upon a wall?
Or has the last post past parading
Missing soldiers yet to fall.


"There's a blaze of light in every word
it doesn't matter which you heard
the holy or the broken Hallelujah"
Leonard Cohen

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Hyaunt
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since 2007-07-12
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1 posted 2007-07-24 12:40 PM


very profound,sir. A marvelous one. Enjoyed the read.
passing shadows
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displaced
2 posted 2007-07-24 12:54 PM


this rhyme scheme always has fascinated me!

touching write, very powerful

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3 posted 2007-07-26 09:32 AM


Sometimes, I feel the hairs rising on my arms as I read... This was one of those times. Superb!
INclan
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4 posted 2007-07-26 02:14 PM


Thought provoking...
I bet this took you a while.
Regards,
INclan

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