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Misery Made Beautiful
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Misery Made Beautiful |
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Honeybee Member Ascendant
since 1999-12-26
Posts 5372Ontario, CANADA 
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This is yet another re-post/re-write.... I was looking through my 'rough work poetry drawer' and found this poem and it reminded me of Serenity and Aenimal's style...yes, that's a compliment! You two inspire me and often I see myself in your poems and thus mold myself to it with my pen. Misery Made Beautiful I am fragile fantasy of fabric flesh awaiting existence, sketched and designed by hands open palmed in finger weave; of godly tips that yield the power for creation of something more where scissored blade can wield freedom to soften the edges, and hue the paper dimples or slice me in half, blank breath. Oh, reverance, give me life, dress me up to kiss glue-mouth eyes and, you will feel my liquid dreams pour out, drizzled slow from sheet milled soul to possibilities beyond imagination. Yes, if you listen ever carefully of ear pressed to my flat-rolled heart, I will sing for you and dance recycled symmetry in a chorus line of traced, white-laced replicas of misery made beautiful. But, I am mime, restless thin-skinned, colourless, still, a fragment of memory... and everybody knows that paper dolls can't talk. By Melissa Long-Monette |
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Aenimal Member Rara Avis
since 2002-11-18
Posts 7350the ass-end of space |
Melissa you honour me with the compliment and humble me with your write. This is simply one of the best I have ever read. |
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Enchantress Member Empyrean
since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113Canada eh. |
Oh My Melissa! I started to choose a favourite line or stanza and ended up with most of the poem...  So, lets just say how very very much I enjoyed this piece! Love it!!! ~Smiles & Hugs, Nancy~ ~Somewhere in my heart I'm always |
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wranx Member Elite
since 2002-06-07
Posts 3689Moved from a shack to a barn |
This is a beauty |
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Nightshade 
since 2001-08-31
Posts 13962just out of reach |
Simply amazing writing here! Chris "Hope" is the thing with feathers- |
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j-oh-E Member
since 2003-05-01
Posts 59Texas, USA |
i like the way your meaning comes through with very abstract images. I like it. I mean, it's difficult to find the exact meaning but it presents itself if you kind of have an open mind as you read. I like poetry that isn't so cut and dry. I like to think when I read poetry. Your poem has these characteristics. So, you have another fan. It seems like you already have plenty. |
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littlewing Member Rara Avis
since 2003-03-02
Posts 9655New York |
Melissa: you amaze me with your insight and yes, add yourself to that list missy . . . xxoo |
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j0n4th4n Member
since 2003-03-11
Posts 94 |
thats fantastic poetry.. really strong work |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
Silky...James |
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Janette
since 2001-07-20
Posts 2843Chicagoland for now |
Outstanding read here! "I am fragile fantasy" "to possibilities beyond imaginatiion" "of misery made beautiful" "a frament of memory..." Ahhhhhhhhh but NEVER forgotten! |
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garysgirl
since 2002-09-29
Posts 19237Florida, USA |
Oh, reverance, give me life, dress me up to kiss glue-mouth eyes and, you will feel my liquid dreams pour out, drizzled slow from sheet milled soul to possibilities beyond imagination. Yes, if you listen ever carefully of ear pressed to my flat-rolled heart, I will sing for you and dance recycled symmetry in a chorus line of traced, white-laced replicas of misery made beautiful. Melissa, this is among the most beautiful poetry I have ever read. I love the idea of "misery made beautiful" to begin with, so that kind of drew me in. I had much rather think of good instead of bad...light instead of dark. Thank you for re-posting this. Hugs, Ethel |
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regards2you Member Elite
since 2002-10-01
Posts 3940California |
Ah, the title says what the poem describes and your last stanza, perfect! Enjoyed greatly, Hugs, Pat ..without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.. |
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Honeybee Member Ascendant
since 1999-12-26
Posts 5372Ontario, CANADA |
Thank you all for your great replies! This is my humble attempt at writing myself in relation the the metaphor of paper dolls... I've always loved that theme. Intellectually I know that Canada is no better than any other country. Emotionally I KNOW that Canada is the best country in the world! |
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Munda Member Elite
since 1999-10-08
Posts 3544The Hague, The Netherlands |
Every time I read one of your poems, I'm left in complete awe. It's no different this time girl. |
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A. L. Becker Member
since 2002-09-06
Posts 167San Francisco, California |
This poem has just about all of my favorite things in it. i love your use of alliteration and interior near rhymes, your beautiful flowing meter and unusual imagery. Wow. Nice job. "Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?' |
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Bill Charles Member Patricius
since 2000-07-11
Posts 10619highways, & byways, for now |
Melissa - this write is just amazing... BC |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
an open honest raw write...mood poetry! |
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Sven
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA |
yes. . . I couldn't help but think of you when I read the title. . .and that is your work as well. . . no one can write it like you can my friend. . . well done. . . ------------------------------------------------------------- To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world. |
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