No call for the tumbrel, No beast with two backs

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Open Poetry #23

No call for the tumbrel, No beast with two backs

RSWells
Member Elite

since 2001-06-17

Posts 2533

0 posted 2002-11-10 01:07 AM

Just slightly altered, you I altared not,
non Vesuvian nor face a clench'd fist,
things but simmered, I'd not let them hot,
Here find no treason, reason to be pissed.
No hope was seeded in this greedy earth
where all will end when our brief dance complete,
love can't die if we not give it birth,
the wee smile drags a windless flag's defeat.
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See, I told you it'd not last.
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**Tumbrel= a farm tipcart, vehicle widely used
                particularly during the French
                revolution to carry those executed.
**beast with two backs= A vulgar reference to the
                        coitial act from Shakespeare
                        Othello Act 1, Scene 1.

Mysteria

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since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

1 posted 2002-11-10 02:35 AM

I gather you didn't quite see eye to eye right, oh well que será, que será (someone obviously with experience made that cliche up)

Let there be peace on earth,
and let it begin with me.

Sandpiper
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since 2002-06-15

Posts 738
land of flora and fauna

2 posted 2002-11-10 11:09 AM

Uh-oh!!

MARK V SHELDON
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since 2001-06-21

Posts 3015
In a corporeal internship...

3 posted 2002-11-10 11:27 AM

Exit, stage-right...?

-MVS

"AS ABOVE SO BELOW"

Mistletoe Angel

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since 2000-12-17

Posts 32816
Portland, Oregon

4 posted 2002-11-10 08:22 PM

(sigh) Yes, you cannot end what you haven't begun, and if nurtured no tumbrel will ever be need to be borrowed! (sigh) I too remember tumbrel from A Tale of Two Cities where the dead were taken from the French Revolution, I love the metaphor, this is excellent, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Richard, thank you for sharing!

May love and light always shine upon you!

Love,
Noah Eaton

"Underneath your clothes there's an endless story..."

Shakira

Pilgrimage
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since 2001-12-04

Posts 3945
Texas, USA

5 posted 2002-11-10 08:25 PM

I love that first line-sly in the extreme. Nice poem.

Nan (Pilgrim variety)

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