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secondhanddreampoet
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a 'Universalist' !

0 posted 2008-06-29 06:52 AM


        On the ‘Runaway American Dream’
[a prognosis on the (alleged) ‘Noblest’ experiment]

Here stand we...self-righteous fools....
at this our twilight hour
cursing a dying sun at midnight
or pleading with our sacred shadows
for yet another day...another ‘way’....
already lost...to rain or tears....
in vain pursuit
of an ageless face in an faceless age
of naked ‘realists’ and other madmen!.
Oh look how far we have come....
To NOTHING!

Be not so quick...my lovely ‘friend’....
to laugh and dance and spit upon
the fallen petals of summer’s final rose
on the nameless graves which stilled
the last ‘Romantic’ heart....
and all who spoke with the ‘Voice’
of solitude’s serenity in wilderness....
for therein may lie...the final ‘chance’!


© Copyright 2008 Bruce E. Adams Jr. - All Rights Reserved
Midnitesun
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1 posted 2008-06-29 06:55 AM


"pleading with our sacred shadows
for yet another day...another ‘way’...."
~sigh~ one of my all-time favorites from your pen, Bruce.

XGarapanX
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2 posted 2008-06-29 08:31 AM


Extremely well done.

·´~`·­»Garapan«­·´~`·

A Romantic Heart
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3 posted 2008-06-29 09:52 AM


Oh Bruce You are so witty and charming...I see between the lines written here...oh, my you have really set the house on fire..lol

Oh mighty brave one...you speak truth, wisdom,
I humbly take a bow!

Loved your choice of words~

ARH~heart

Marchmadness
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4 posted 2008-06-29 03:10 PM


"Oh look how far we have come to NOTHING"
and society is becoming a garish, ugly nothing with only nature to console us.
Those of us who care. One of your besy, Poet.
                           Ida

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