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easy1
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since 2010-05-22
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Southeastern USA

0 posted 2011-02-05 12:22 PM





To exist for vendetta and material power alone is to risk terrible heartbreak.

I left the followers behind
and took an early morning walk,
my first good ramble of this kind
in many months, to talk with God.

Between fog-dripping, silent oaks,
all clustered far with owlet calls
and memories of ev'ning croaks,
I made my way beyond the walls.

Into a misty morn at last,
beyond the sleep-gray tempered dunes
that guard a sandy, sordid past,
the work of many moons I trod.

Where formless skies meet formless sand,
and dark ocean between is sown,
what foot and disk and eye make---
To exist for vendetta and
material power alone
is to risk terrible heartbreak.

© Copyright 2011 Mark C. - All Rights Reserved
faithmairee
Senior Member
since 2011-01-05
Posts 1441
Poe Haven, USA
1 posted 2011-02-05 12:26 PM


a profound and powerful piece finely penned...enjoyed it much

There must be a poem in here somewhere.

steavenr
Member Elite
since 2003-11-17
Posts 4058

2 posted 2011-02-05 09:52 PM


nice write...liked these phrasings best:

"Between fog-dripping, silent oaks,
all clustered far with owlet calls "

BluesSerenade
Member Patricius
since 2001-10-23
Posts 10549
By the Seaside
3 posted 2011-02-06 11:04 AM


A soul searching kind of poem with a great message.

Good thoughts, excellent poetry~

Juju
Member Elite
since 2003-12-29
Posts 3429
In your dreams
4 posted 2011-02-07 10:30 PM


This is a nice read

-Juju

-"So you found a girl
Who thinks really deep thoughts
What's so amazing about really deep thoughts " Silent all these Years, Tori Amos

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