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redshoes
Junior Member
since 2000-05-22
Posts 12
Massachusetts

0 posted 2000-05-30 09:58 PM


                Irene
Sepia warm skin tones
Fur trimmed, lace brocade dress
--and bare feet

That dinner ring, sparkling
Heavy diamonds, setting you chose
--yourself

(You are so Monroe-esque!)
Ink stained fingertips,
I try to hold my pen
--like you

I read what you wrote
And vowed to take my shoes off
Too--

(But I am so Un-Monroe...)
I have no dinner ring,
No prize of hearts thrown away,
Broken--

No ink stains
Forever present, like
Irene, triumphant.

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Elyse
Member
since 2000-04-16
Posts 414
Apex (think raleigh) NC
1 posted 2000-05-31 01:16 AM


hi redshoes!  i cant understand what you're trying to do with the hyphens.  theyre a little distracting.  i think just setting it off on a new line is fine.  also, i dont get your Monroe refrence.  but aside from that, a nice read    thanx for sharing it.
luv Elyse



 Do I contradict myself?
Very well then . . . . I contradict myself;
I am large . . . . I contain multitudes.
-Papa Walt

Jana Tovey
Member
since 2000-05-30
Posts 257
USA
2 posted 2000-05-31 10:46 AM


A mental picture is developing, but it's not quite complete.  I see the audacity of Irene, but I don't know what motivates her.
I sense that she is unique, but I want to know WHY?

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