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Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

0 posted 2013-08-24 05:46 PM

Beauty and the Beast

A step miscast from decades past—
A shadow on Night's wall.
A soulless being, ever unseeing,
Lingers down the hall.
Corridors of gloom where nothing looms,
He's danced them all before.
His deemed-fair prize: But lifeless eyes
'Twixt here and evermore.

Where reverie, nor devilry
Will relinquish the dead
...From 'pon the seas of memory
That echo through his head.
...From pain, regret, and life beset;
Complete with glimpse of dream—
That smile he tossed unto the lost
Menagerie of scream.

And so as change, gothic and strange,
Might count him now a ghost;
While nothing dear remains to fear,
(She's all he loved the most)...
One voice still sings, and dread still brings
This vision to the damned.
He can't let go although he knows
Nothing now holds his hand.

He walks the gale, Night's to avail,
Pale beyond recourse.
Unto a myth that, drawn forthwith,
Proves hollow in its source...
A fallow cause, unsanctioned laws
Which bind his soul to hers.
He moans his loss upon her cross,
As the undead night stirs.

She sings, he cries, and all love dies
Nightly upon this course.
He wails, but holds to truths untold,
Through unending remorse...
...That she might see humanity
In this monster of her making,
And might forgive— that love might live
Through two hearts ever breaking.

Michael Anderson

6/21/13

[This message has been edited by Michael (09-11-2013 08:18 PM).]

Nan

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-05-20

Posts 21191
Cape Cod Massachusetts USA

1 posted 2013-08-24 06:34 PM

Your darkness shines - and I can't ever resist reading your work..

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

2 posted 2013-08-24 07:04 PM

You are a heartbreaking read in a class by yourself.

Lori

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

3 posted 2013-08-24 07:47 PM

Lori said it for me . . .

~*~ What do you call a dinosaur with a extensive vocabulary? A thesaurus. ~*~

crosscountry83
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since 2009-07-30

Posts 345

4 posted 2013-08-25 01:34 PM

Your flow was amazing. The rhythm seemed to draw me in and reach me in a way that simple words probably wouldn't. Wonderful write.

Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

5 posted 2013-08-25 10:44 PM

Thank you all for the kind replies.

It's so good to see you here, Nan. I've missed ya. Hang out with us a lil more, would ya? I could darn sure use another meter lesson I know.

Michael

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

6 posted 2013-09-10 10:15 PM

Wonderful flow...James

poetically ghetto
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since 2004-01-20

Posts 100

7 posted 2013-09-11 02:56 AM

wow I have noticed in my first two nights here how profound your writing and style are and how much your writing is respected, it is well deserved and the way you entice the reader is on a real level

Namyh
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since 2009-01-20

Posts 988

8 posted 2013-09-12 05:01 PM

Michael - This is storytelling at its best. The rhythm, rhyme and language give the story a wonderful gothic impact. Only the talent in the poet's pen does that. You wrote with poetic clarity and that makes me a fan. Namyh

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