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sheba57
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since 1999-06-27
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vincennes, in usa

0 posted 2000-05-02 04:14 AM


life

blood, coursing through tubes;
corpuscles spinning as arteries
throb and veins pulse.
this is life .....
molecular, dynamic - yet passe?

white ghosts, squirming through tubes;
fighting, racing toward the quest.
only one will win out and breach
the defenses of the mass
this too is life .....
molecular, dynamic - not so passe.

silvery strands sighing through tubes;
passing in and out of the clusters.
shallow, silent, finally still.
this was life .....
molecular, dynamic - never passe.

~celtic rose - 2000~

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Elyse
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since 2000-04-16
Posts 414
Apex (think raleigh) NC
1 posted 2000-05-02 09:45 PM


hey sheba!  you have some really wonderfull things in here.  i love "this is life..../molecular, dynamic"  but i think maybe that calling it "passe" is trivializing it a little.  i dont know what the last stanza is talking about, but thats ok, i like it best. in stanza 2, i wouldnt say they were "racing towards the quest"  i dont think you can go towards a quest, you go ON one.  mabe change it to something desireable.  

i think (and this IS just my opinion) that if you tweak that passe stuff, you'll have a strikingly strong poem.
luv Elyse

sheba57
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vincennes, in usa
2 posted 2000-05-03 03:44 AM


elyse, thanks so much for trying - you're on the right track.  remember the title.  sheba.
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