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taramw
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since 2000-06-08
Posts 738


0 posted 2000-06-16 07:49 AM


Quiet desperation
my heart is squeezed

A terrible despair
how do words describe me?

This terrible feeling
at the core of my soul

A horrible emptiness
is leaving this gaping hole

I am drowning
arms flailing, my eyes are wide

As I sit in misery
the demons no longer hide.

© Copyright 2000 Tara - All Rights Reserved
Walter Poe
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since 1999-10-13
Posts 787

1 posted 2000-06-16 08:10 AM


Demons rise
a sea of pain
lonely nights
alone again
the heat draws
and all alone
everyone hits
the bottom of stone

Into the night
cast off your fear
day to day
and year to year
all we do
is play the game
in the end its all the same



 Vanguard of the New Movement

Behind his polished cedar desk,
surrounded by his phones,
Sits Blazer Dyke(The yachting type),
The vanguard of the clones.
The Archetype,
The number one,The vanguard of the clones.

Crossing over busy street,
where noisy traffic drones,
Walks Blazer Dyke (without a bike),
The vanguard of the clones.
The autocrat,
The ectomorph,
The vanguard of the clones.

He strides across the cobbled yard,
Where pawn shops offer loans,
That Blazer Dyke (Whom i dislike),
The vanguard of the clones.
The cannibal,
The parasite,
The vanguard of the clones.

He passes through the wicket gate,
To churhyards full of bones,
That Blazer Dyke (on a midnight hike),
The vanguard of the clones.
The necrophile,
The narcissist,
The coprophage,
The sybarite,
The telepath,
The Anti-Christ,
The vanguard of the clones.

Robert Rankin
(The Dance of the Voodoo Handbag)

taramw
Senior Member
since 2000-06-08
Posts 738

2 posted 2000-06-16 08:18 AM


Walter... I love that! Yes, our demons do rise - at most times at an inopportune time... and I believe we have to hit "rock bottom" in order for us to "rise" again (so to speak).  Yeah, I guess it is all a game... it just depends on who wins    Thank you!  
lotharingia
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since 2000-06-04
Posts 897
saarbruecken, Germany
3 posted 2000-06-16 09:37 AM


Well, I'm not going to burst into song like Walter did   I'll stick to prose for now. I love the descriptiveness in this poem, the stifling feeling it conveys, the emptiness of despair when we are at our weakest ...
I also like Walter's beautiful but defeatist reply, though! Isn't it nice when we inspire each other?!


 Lotharingia
"For God's sake, he's a poet. Poets are meant to feel miserable. Otherwise, what the hell are they here for? What are they going to write about?"
Tom Holland


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