The decaying horse (rewritten)

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Dark Poetry #3

The decaying horse (rewritten)

brian madden
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since 2000-05-06

Posts 4374
ireland

0 posted 2001-07-16 03:14 PM

I have flogged your hide, beaten bruised
loved and abused. You were woman wounded
the mortal victim child bearer and venom kiss.
In the twilight air you tamed the wild children's
circle dance, fed them the poison apple entrancing
those fairies in the light of cleansing scorn.
Erase the disease disassociate chastity
from jealous stars and shaman jewellery.
Woman you were the fairest sex,
the dead horse was your creation meat.

Sodom, the bells toll.

I have dreamt of you in hazy summer,
You, my own kin, could crucify me for this;
Youthful boys crawl through the cornfields
prising their muscles and scattering seeds.
You were man brutal in embrace and tender
in violence, silencing the dawn and its
senseless glitter. You spat out blest wine
dogs lapping its venom at your feet.
Man you were the terrorist sex, the hunter
brooding over the severed maiden, blind
woman awaits your juices to devour, in
your shadow she cowers. Below,
the preacher torches the horse's eyes.

Enter brother and sister redemption washes your feet.
Demand your birthright, your piece of skin.
Your actions eclipse joy, penetrating childhood.

Shalom, the grave is dug.

Flog the dead horse, in pendulum motion,
The bruises beat the paths from Bethlehem to Siberia.
Shalom, Shalom, Shalom the last bell tolls.

"Here I am in prison,here I am with a ball and chain There is whiskey in the jar-o" Traditional irish song.

Hellseyes
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since 2001-07-25

Posts 120
Kansas, USA

1 posted 2001-07-29 12:57 PM

this is da shkti../Drew/

Jessica

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since 2001-06-28

Posts 350
South AL

2 posted 2001-07-29 09:27 PM

Brian ~ This was a very powerful piece. Dark, deep - all the estenial elements of an awesome poem!!

What don't kill you can only make you stronger...

Love you, Adam!! :)

serenity blaze
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since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

3 posted 2001-07-29 11:27 PM

Wow...I can't tell you how powerfully this affected me. (nightmares of dead horses yanno) But when you bury, you bury DEEP---I do hope you will continue to grace the forum with your intensity. Awesome piece.

Tiersdin
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since 2000-11-17

Posts 2364
east coast

4 posted 2001-07-31 12:52 PM

excellent write...

~Tier

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