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Christopher
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Purgatorial Incarceration

0 posted 2000-08-03 04:14 PM



From Then to Now
© 2000 Christopher Ward


Breathing shards of emptiness
While choking on your lies.
Questioning this part which hates,
The past which slowly dies.

Grieving ev’ry bond which breaks
In tune with tainted blood.
Pumped from heart-shaped, splintered stone,
Bereaved; This cairn of love.

My tower, tall and barren;
Wretched, reeks no hope.
Affliction crumbles down,
From ‘top an angered slope:

Of deceit, despair and hate-
Glisten foul with pain.
Your promises held… never,
A dank and dirty stain.

-So-

When you’re basking 'neath regret,
In courts of falling down;
Know I lived through each damned day,
Wearing your thorny crown.






[This message has been edited by Christopher (edited 08-03-2000).]

© Copyright 2000 C.G. Ward - All Rights Reserved
brian madden
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since 2000-05-06
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ireland
1 posted 2000-08-03 05:36 PM


WOW Chris....phew this one blew me away. excellent piece.

"I am melancholy, flower cutting through stone"
manic street preachers

EWDrake
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since 2000-07-30
Posts 183
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2 posted 2000-08-03 05:46 PM


Christopher, you have here a first rate read. Well crafted in shades of gray just this side of despair.  Your work is a pleasure to read -- even the the darker visions...

With a long held breath given dark freedom, the single flame in sorrow's window flickers out.
~EWD~


L Tiuch
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since 2000-02-04
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3 posted 2000-08-03 06:15 PM


Christopher...I really liked this a lot!  The sadness is so real.  Linda
catalinamoon
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The Shores of Alone
4 posted 2000-08-03 10:55 PM


Christopher, this is a very strong poem, and powerful feelings came through. I liked it a lot. Take care.
Catalinamoon

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5 posted 2000-08-03 11:42 PM


Awesome Christopher.
Sudhir Iyer
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6 posted 2000-08-04 04:25 AM


AWESOME is the word... Chris you are da man...

regards,
sudhir

Christopher
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Purgatorial Incarceration
7 posted 2000-08-04 12:14 PM


Thank you all very much! I'm flattered! (Don't even say it S'en... )

And I wanted to add in response to EWD, that there was a time here, when almost all my stuff was dark!  

Beth
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8 posted 2000-08-04 12:28 PM


~WOW....
I agree
Awesome~

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