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Lethe
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since 2001-04-10
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Blackforrest

0 posted 2001-04-12 07:20 PM



SERENITY PAINTED DEATH

Returned from a hibernal dream
Voices fell like marble
No longer by my side
Gone all that would linger
Ripped from my embrace
Melinda reflected in shafts
Red line round her neck
Met the earth in silence
White faced, haggard grin
This serenity painted death
With a halo of bitter disease
Black paragon in lingering breath
Saw here fading, blank stare into me
Clenched fist from the beautiful pain
Darkness reared its head
Tearing within the reeling haze
Took control, claiming my flesh
Piercing rage, perfect tantrum
Each and every one would die at my hand
Choking in warm ponds of blood
At last, weak and torn, I went down
Drained from strength, flickering breath
Came with the moon
The wayward in concious state
Flanked and barred in destiny's end
Underneath with hope in laches
Swathed in filth, any would betoken
Starlit shadows on the wall
Finally there to collect me
From the bowels of sin

  
  


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Tiersdin
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since 2000-11-17
Posts 2364
east coast
1 posted 2001-04-13 12:52 PM


Amazing, that's all that I can say...

-Tier

Kethry
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since 2000-07-29
Posts 9082
Victoria Australia
2 posted 2001-04-13 01:20 AM


Lethe,
I still don't understand the poem...but it has a beautiful rhythm and flow
write on
Kethry

Those of us who refuse to risk and grow get swallowed up by life.  Patty Hansen.



serenity blaze
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since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738

3 posted 2001-04-13 03:08 AM


and? I fear I understood it all too well.
blew me away.

Swamp¤Faeryie
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since 2000-12-04
Posts 393
fairyland....of course;)
4 posted 2001-04-13 11:41 PM


WOW!! :! i'm speechless this is just great,i HAVE to read the others!!

swampo

much madness is divinest sense,and much sense the starkest madness~Emily Dickinson

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since 2001-03-14
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5 posted 2001-04-19 08:23 PM


Beautiful.

--Marie

subconsciously, i think i can eat so much to make my stomach hurt, instead of my heart.

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