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brian madden
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since 2000-05-06
Posts 4374
ireland

0 posted 2001-02-17 04:10 PM





Must it come to this…?
Summoning my attention
when it is immersed
in some imagery war.
Nursing joyful wounds,
I stutter to your call,
with youth twisting
between my legs.
Regarding your-self,
though
Not from my eyes
for I could not stand so,
fortified in pride.
I dog your shadow
as a personality;
Several shades from my own.
This family trick I mimic so well.

Saturday brings but blankets
dredged through
the filth. Always I
bathed in cold logic,
absolved in its sheaths,
to feast on the opiate of infancy.
Crown me pauper of Sodom;
the forgotten city of excrement,
where I may keep company
with blood eyed strangers,
all figments of my sanity,
together
we drink of the guilt I extrude!

This landscape etched of charcoal
can it help but soil my countenance?
perhaps not,
for the future
is
present in pseudo socialism.
Every Saturday arrives like clockwork,
but its history is mine to change.
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THis poem has been edited since first posted, to be less of a self pity rant.. now includes happen ending




"The only way to gain approval
Is by exploiting the very thing that cheapens me" N.Jones



[This message has been edited by brian madden (edited 02-18-2001).]

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Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354
Listening to every heart
1 posted 2001-02-17 04:14 PM


You always make me read your stuff three and four times over....until it hit me that it sounds like you're at home and someone had the nerve to get you up WAY too early and on the wrong side of the bed, to boot! I'm probably wrong, but that's what came through on the 4th read! Well done!
VAS
Member Rara Avis
since 2000-11-16
Posts 7450
Oregon
2 posted 2001-02-17 04:47 PM


Such an infectious smile on your face...truly an oxymoron to what fills this page. Perhaps that smile is miles away from today.

Strong piece.

Janet Marie
Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554

3 posted 2001-02-17 05:43 PM


Nursing joyful wounds,
I respond with youth
twisting between my legs.
Witnessing your-self,
though
Not from my eyes
for I could not stand so,
fortified in pride.
I walk your shadow
as a personality;
Several shades from my own.
This family trick I mimic so well.

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ahh...my dear sweet poetic genius has returned...
HEY YOU!!!!!! MISS YA ...
no one writes inner conflict, torment of soul and angst like you do Bri-babes...
very cool write of inner struggle and conclict of generations and our childhood's ghosts and demons
(am I even close) ...
if not...I'll buy the tylenol *smile*
great to see your name here my poetic prophet
love ya Bri-gator
eve

As sure as God made wine
you can't wrap your arms around a memory
In the dark for me
youre the candle flame that flickers to life
~Mission UK~


[This message has been edited by Janet Marie (edited 02-17-2001).]

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