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Dark Poetry #3

Robot lullabies

bsquirrel

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

0 posted 2003-03-20 03:50 PM

Dry tongued machinery
clicking in my ear.
Programmed machinery
recalls coded dreams.
Something about urban things
trapped beneath the snow.

Winter tombs of street and seas.
Sculptures of black ice.
Collapsed bridges arc the sun.
Clotting smoke is gone.
It sings to me in cold command.
Its eyes like radio.

Dry tongued machinery
clicking to a close.
Battery depletion.
Fragment cluttered speech.
A lullaby for robots
was then sung to me.

Stella was a diver and she was always down.
Interpol

Janet Marie
Member Laureate

since 2000-01-22

Posts 18554

1 posted 2003-03-20 06:51 PM

Winter tombs of street and seas.
Sculptures of black ice.
Collapsed bridges arc the sun.
Clotting smoke is gone.
It sings to me in cold command.
Its eyes like radio.
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what an amazing place your mind is...

The Sun The Moon The Stars The Sky
none of these would my love deny.
For of all the true found in the blue
its twice as much that I love you.

jm

Purple Poet On Wheels
Member

since 2002-06-21

Posts 145
Pittsburgh/Edinboro, PA

2 posted 2003-03-20 07:25 PM

In the words of Dave Matthews: I'm Blown away"

bsquirrel

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

3 posted 2003-03-21 11:43 AM

Thank you both. This is one of the creepiest things I've written in a while. I'm not 100 percent sure where it came from, either. Only that I had the phrase "Robot lullabies" stuck in my head.

Stella was a diver and she was always down.
Interpol

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