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ice
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0 posted 2012-12-18 09:42 AM


“Evil is done without effort, naturally, by fate,
and the property is always the product of an art”
Charles Baudelaire

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Time moves, but fate compounds by flesh.
Sunbright is dull on closed window minds-
Where dirty curtains hang, shuting out Godslight.
In soils of stored hate, only flowers of evil grow,
That cause the petals of love to wilt...and die!

Circuits short, but some breakers hold
Until atoms fuse, just before meltdown..
Out of control, the mind speed warps
Towards the bridge at the bank of the styx,
On the road that leads to center of the world.

But argument changes the brush stroke;
At muzzle flash,  fools make no flinch.
Evil wins, a lineage is smudged...when
A bullet adds numbers, to the right of the dash
With bloodink sopped from maternal drool.

Controlled insanity, mind vessel empty;
Forces, electric-chemical, glue wheel to hands,  
Aiding caution in traffic, but murder shuns rest
'til all crimes are known...yet-still-- yet
For more...the howling beast makes wail.

To morning songs, angels dance, then settle.
Woe makes fail attempt to warn the lovelies-
Grief that bears a coin for passage--enters;
Sharp and loud, repeats a sound, but no one hears
The cries of those, who for their mothers call.

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"This is the way the world ends
    This is the way the world ends
    This is the way the world ends
    Not with a bang but a whimper."

T.S.Elliot..."The Hollow Men"

[This message has been edited by ice (12-20-2012 05:32 AM).]

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Sunshine
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1 posted 2012-12-18 10:12 AM


Ford, so very stark, so very real.
May Gods light welcome the angels home.


Goldenrose
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2 posted 2012-12-18 06:42 PM


powerful writing from such raw and brtutal actions. i wish you didnt have this subject to write about,but i enjoyed the way you wrote it...may god bless all the souls who died....

Goldenrose.

ice
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3 posted 2012-12-18 07:18 PM


Thank you Karilea...the light of God in every heart must welcome these children and all the other misfortunates home.

I haven't written a word since April, but this situation moved my muse from its months long slumber..My mouth and pen have needs for better words..winter, ah winter..time for me to write again.

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G.R.
Thank you my friend. It takes a lot of emotional energy for me to write words about evil...I don't like it, but I must say them.



mellowdown
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4 posted 2012-12-19 04:29 PM


So glad you spoke out in the voice
of poetry, no whimper this, hopefully
we will all join a chorus of nevermore,
nevermore...

a poem is a sigh
a melody of song
a musical lullaby

ice
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5 posted 2012-12-20 05:24 AM


Thank you MD

No whimper here, just a primal scream.

"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance."
Carl Sandburg

Richy
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6 posted 2012-12-20 02:33 PM


wonderfully done my friend.. this is the 9-11 of a nation's innocence.. . so senseless, so sad.. blessings to you
JamesMichael
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7 posted 2012-12-21 05:51 PM


Nice forceful writing...James
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8 posted 2012-12-21 06:41 PM


That certainly hit the solar plexus, Ford.  Have missed your beautiful and powerful poetry.  Such humans (and many other things) make me aspire to the goodness of my cat and my dog.

Owl

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