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craigrk
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0 posted 2001-12-31 11:28 AM


        Playwright

He was what he repressed,
ignored, denied, resisted,
like the pale and knotted crust
of a limp and aged hand
reality's veneer was shattered
by a phantasmagoric sleep.
This apocalypse of him as him,
a will be reined by freedom's reign
and he would be as he sleeps -
know what he was when he loved.


He was overzealous (codeine and Capulet)
Professed himself of primal root
and total alienation,
thus compelled to babble love
in death's anticipation,
reach for mineral soils of stage
conceive of timeless stageless stage -
bloom another's other.



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ecrivan
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1 posted 2001-12-31 11:53 AM


It's your second stanza which drives home the idea that your playwright lived vicariously through his stage..that provokes an interesting thought. Might I suggest that reach be changed to reached? That might make the second verse stick better. Just a thought.Good use of repeated words.Welcome to Passions

[This message has been edited by ecrivan (12-31-2001 11:55 AM).]

Sunshine
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2 posted 2001-12-31 11:54 AM



Dang, you're good!

Irish Rose
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3 posted 2001-12-31 04:56 PM


this is excellent.

I am/Kathleen/

dieadra
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4 posted 2001-12-31 07:55 PM


mineral soils of stage. great.
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