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ctowen
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since 2001-10-18
Posts 2286
Green Mountains of VT

0 posted 2009-08-24 01:20 PM


eloquent and dressed
   ...meaningful
re-versed impressions
hand-me-down sensations
   ...the obsessed

wax on, wax off


costume jewelry
   performances
genuine traits
it all creates
   tomfoolery

wax figures

stranger than fiction
   larger-than-life
each story told
is a replica's hold
   of contradiction

wax on. wax off

such eloquent impressions
are costume traits
   wax figures
in a stranger's told

"You don't have to go
You're the poetry man
You make things all rhyme" - P. Snow


              

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Earth Angel
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since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215
Realms of Light
1 posted 2009-08-24 06:11 PM


There are wax figures both inside and outside of a wax museum.
In the summers, when I was a teenager, I used to be a tour guide in Luis Tussaud's Wax Museum in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. I still get vivid, spine-tingling flashbacks of some the strange occurences.

Enjoyed your poem!


EA


nakdthoughts
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since 2000-10-29
Posts 19200
Between the Lines
2 posted 2009-08-25 08:29 AM


"hand-me-down sensations"

love that line, in fact sometimes I think I am getting hand me down sensations from my sister who has passed away~~


M

inkedgoddess
Member Rara Avis
since 2002-11-19
Posts 7392
Ohio
3 posted 2009-08-25 04:20 PM


kind of spooky just waiting for them to come to life and say something
like super real figures, yet lacking feelings or are they

Margherita
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since 2003-02-08
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Eternity
4 posted 2009-08-25 06:11 PM


Captivating in its mystery.

Love,
Margherita

Bill Charles
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since 2000-07-11
Posts 10619
highways, & byways, for now
5 posted 2009-08-25 09:39 PM


ctowen - I also find this writing mysterious, and well written...

BC

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