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threadbear
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0 posted 2009-10-27 04:20 PM


Mayan Sketches


. . . in a poets hand: the writing of rogue sketches
written in the language of forevermore
a puzzlement of never-cries and fading pride.
Pens upright like obelisks
scratching the future with monuments
something they will never see -
The promise is good enough
to appease the gods of the apocalypse

In the sad awakening of new man meeting old
neither was ready to share the present
sight dimmed by the power of life.
They built the steps of gold
in harmony with the phases of the moon and
the ringed glory of the sun’s encircling gifts
Was it worth the cost
just to be Closer to
God?

Strange mixtures of the brutal and the bereaved
an edginess was written in frail tracing
wings of butterflies.
Bewildered, we have found what you have lost
when unleashed legends go awry,
land is salted with blood
and peppered with lives exhaled out
in the candles of immortality
and the ashes of what can never be
again.


9/01/09  Jeff Feezle


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Midnitesun
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1 posted 2009-10-27 05:20 PM


This is going into my library.
Well written and thoughtful, crossing many levels of time, space, humanity.

threadbear
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2 posted 2009-10-28 01:06 AM


Thank you, Midnitesun!

So history cannot be forgotton
because the past
is always with us.
Jeff

nakdthoughts
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3 posted 2009-10-28 08:29 AM


AS you age Jeff, you start to see  how mortal you are and how the simplest of things was the most important in life...

from a tired "soul"

M

Margherita
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4 posted 2009-10-28 05:54 PM


quote:
Strange mixtures of the brutal and the bereaved
an edginess was written in frail tracing
wings of butterflies.



So well said!

A most intriguing, significant write.

Love,
Margherita

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