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Temptress
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0 posted 2002-07-19 01:09 AM


softly now the night holds me again
all light comfortably silenced.
This is me
dreaming again of times when
my only love was starlit
soft and brazen eyes on my skin
he tickled through a haze of lonliness
while I fell soft to thoughts
that would take me to my dreams.
Would anger take me away again
as I am too drained to smile
while encamped among rotting branches
of a "once was" life?
Too much perserverance
and a road of dust
wrote with chalklike agony,
its will upon my breath
and now I stand back in the arms of a familiar love.
Night
dressed in its best and ready to receive me.
Cool caress of lips
standing steady
head upward
in tilt
awaiting the demands of the old master.
Dark
not darkness.
I am walking in the wake of shadows
and it
thrills.





I will not bend to the cowardice of a silent judgement.


[This message has been edited by Temptress (07-20-2002 03:35 PM).]

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wranx
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1 posted 2002-07-19 01:15 AM


A trilling thrilling read of Night Dark.

It seems that I don't read your work as much as I would like.

I'll soon fix that


~wranx

I have great faith in Humanity...It's just most of the Humans, I'm not too keen on.     E.F.Rose

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2 posted 2002-07-19 01:17 AM


YOUR NEW PICTURE ROCKS!!!!

And the poem is pretty awesome, too.

She said burn ... together.
-TON

Anvrill
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3 posted 2002-07-19 10:14 AM


"I am walking in the wake of shadows
and it
thrills."

Two syllables:

Yummy.



Aaaaand.... Mikhail, don't make me forget I've put aside my jealousy. Though it IS a cool pic.

written in blood before everything went black

JCV

alibaster
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4 posted 2002-07-19 10:20 AM


Hmmm, and is not dear Dark such a grand lover?
Wonderful wonderful words hun!!
Until...ali


"There is an alter ego which dwells within every soul."(C)alibaster

"If it doesn't bite, scratch and make you bleed its not worth it"(C)alibaster

[This message has been edited by alibaster (07-19-2002 10:21 AM).]

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5 posted 2002-07-19 04:52 PM


good. . . there's more. . . I was hoping. . .

thank you. . . just another reason to come back here. . . wonderful. . .

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6 posted 2002-07-20 01:56 PM


You write of the dark well, Jennifer.
Temptress
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7 posted 2002-07-20 03:38 PM


Thanks, everyone. I don't get the chance to thank people anymore individually, and I apologize for that.

I'm having some trouble with a few lines from this. Reading back over it, I'm not satisfied with this,

"...wrote with chalklike agony,
its will upon my breath..."

Chalklike agony. Does that really make sense to anyone? If it does, can you tell me how you are reading it? I'm not sure the image or the feeling makes sense, but I'm having trouble writing the firstline to still go with the second line and the sentence structure (yes..sentence structure in free verse..mine at least *sticks out tongue*) in the rest of it.

HELP?

I will not bend to the cowardice of a silent judgement.

wranx
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8 posted 2002-07-20 11:34 PM


From "wrote with a chalklike agony", I got the dry agonized keening sound that chalk  makes, also good sec tie in with dust reference.

But what do I know?

Still thrill chilled by it.

~wranx

I have great faith in Humanity...It's just most of the Humans, I'm not too keen on.     E.F.Rose

devina
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9 posted 2002-07-21 10:52 AM


about the line...chalklike agony...I read it smooth (yes smooth..shush!) and interpreted as screeching dry- that type of thing...and? it WORKS Gen...never second guess a piece of art like this one hun...

I've missed your stuff for WAY too long to critique...so don't ask! grins...

enjoyed this...

Open arms can be the most fragile in the world...



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10 posted 2002-07-21 03:01 PM


Hey! No second guesses/humanity allowed! This is Dark!

I, too, thought of it as nails on blackboard, only now yr also chokin' on its dust. Whee!

She said burn ... together.
-TON

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