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Cybil smiled |
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bsquirrel
since 2000-01-03
Posts 7855
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One of those rare times I dip into mythology (and skew it to my purposes). Another older poem. Cybil smiled She sat beside Diane's mirror; a golden bough reflected back. Nowhere near its surface gaze, she admired the inlay of the frame. The mirror tasted swaying pines moving quietly in the pane; the metal chimes sounding together like drops of poison in their bottles. A lilac tree brought its smell though winter was already fallen, hard, in drops of quicksilver rainy light: day's decay scattered toward night. Cybil wrote a poem to me in a loose-leaf binder; the leaves all scattered; I lost my footing, the rain-swollen dirt creeping coldness to my knees. A panic to find order again; her words were running to the rainy sky, combining with the mud and stones. Erased the letters she had composed. She watched all this from the window, finding it better than mirror pines. The chimes continued to drop slow poison; the sky broke open; again, she smiled. |
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Dragon Mistress Member
since 2002-08-26
Posts 289Washington, USA. |
Coolies! I loved it. ~*~I'm only a dreamer, with broken dreams, and only words to fall back on~*~ |
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wranx Member Elite
since 2002-06-07
Posts 3689Moved from a shack to a barn |
Gotta echo the Dragon Miss here, squirrel dude! Coolies and more! ~Ed In reply to "which way do we go?", the answer was never "straight", but, "progressively forward". |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
Made me look---and serenity smiled. You guys are making me dust off those old-fashioned books again--I really need to thank you! (not that I mind, it's really hard to curl up with a good computer) What a deft pen--shaking my head, you KNOW I love the myth--you KNOW I love this--and? y'got me thinking...yet AGAIN.  |
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Anvrill Senior Member
since 2002-06-21
Posts 710in the interzone now |
I am soooo out of touch with mythology, it's almost scary. I can still appreciate yr poetry, o'course. Ewig und immer, Korper und Seele. (Is that how y' spell it? Hmm...)i'll be waiting for you |
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bsquirrel
since 2000-01-03
Posts 7855 |
Thanks, everyone. I only vaguely remember the entirety of the mythology I researched to write this, myself. If I remember at all, I think Cybil was kept in an urn in a cave, as an oracle. When someone once asked what she wanted, she said "I want to die." It's the opening of T.S. Eliot's the Wasteland, actually. God I'm a nerd!!! (and if I remember, "Diane's mirror" is a lake) See? Twisted everything to my ends!  Mike |
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