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brian madden
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since 2000-05-06
Posts 4374
ireland

0 posted 2000-06-16 01:58 PM


The vault

Hinges crack as the great door closes
sealed in the vacuum of life.
Bolted by the rustic bones signed
and sealed with scrawl on poems.
It moves as it first did as it left the womb,
Cords that drip of blood like life’s veins severed.
The hardened frame tears forward
struggling in its constraints of flesh and hair.
It grinds its teeth and bites its lips drowning out the rivers.
The holes it made now tiny ones, still the ropes hold fast.
It scraps its nails deep and removes
more by threading on broken glass.
The floor it paints crimson like the messiah
walking on oceans stained red.
Here amongst its self-claimed carnage it bows
and whispers a prayer for the dead.
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Trip

Glaring over time I have seen her cross the Melody.
The castles have fallen down, killed in overgrowth,
I settled blindfolded at the helm.
she sat waiting for the chance.
She begged to be for us (though never understood that)
I fought by the rails and stammered on the banks.
Scratch down another oak cross
she enjoys splinters and the telling dust.
Down this road they were sunken
into the earth the creatures pinned down.
Rotting out and sinking down the creatures decayed
crucified for the best. Praise the God she was freed,
Into my heart, here all the pins blaze across the night.
I turned in fear to bleed her again
and scratch behind my eyes.
In there, lakes of vanity drown us out.
Back to her wrapped around and holding together.
Awake again to reality, it strikes a cold fear in me.
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The Search

It started with curiosity of questions
often asked yet never answered.
Locked away obsessed in my quest
I buried under skin scenting it lay there deep.
The hours passed as I sat hidden
In the mess of unearthed memories,
each one evoked a great sadness.

Buried deep in ugliness soon
knocked down by affliction.
In my quest I lost all sight
questioning everything
searching for fault concluding
perfection is emptiness.
I am trapped in futile ugliness
searching as a bitter cynic.
The void swallowed my voice
and took out my eyes discarding me
to madness where I drown
in a pit of ignorance
among familiar faces




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"Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time".

Baltimore Grotto

"To be nobody-but-yourself-in a world which is doing its best night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."

E.E Cummings.

"Art is a lie which makes us realise the truth." Pablo Picasso

"We Irish are too poetical to be poets, we are a nation of brilliant failures" Oscar Wilde


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Danny Holloway
Member Elite
since 2000-01-15
Posts 2034
Tulsa, OK
1 posted 2000-06-17 10:51 AM


A trio of peoms that show the extent of your talented pen.
~~nice writing~~

Nancee
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since 2000-06-17
Posts 45
Australia
2 posted 2000-06-18 01:15 AM


To some I might say "Take 'The Search', and experience NOT the path of least resistance".
Thankyou

Swåmp¤Faerÿie
Member
since 2000-03-29
Posts 358
Illinois
3 posted 2000-06-22 03:42 PM


Brian,these are excellent. i can't really figure them out,mebe i'm missing something,but i still got a VERY distinct and very intrigued feeling from them.excellent.

swamp


And there she weaves by night and day,
a magic web of colours gay.~Tennyson

Swåmp¤Faerÿie
Member
since 2000-03-29
Posts 358
Illinois
4 posted 2000-06-22 03:42 PM


Brian,these are excellent. i can't really figure them out,mebe i'm missing something,but i still got a VERY distinct and very intrigued feeling from them.excellent.

swamp


And there she weaves by night and day,
a magic web of colours gay.~Tennyson

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