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Tsunami |
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LeeJ Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
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Inspired by a Documentary Entitled Tsunami Beds of transfiguring moving designs Lawlessly dancing, dark purples and blues Like a maze of unforgiving snowflakes entwined Gunmetal stares, firelight echoes scissoring conviction Leaning posses of violent wetness touching scraping lips Fleshless palms dragging salt formations sightless Coupling like eyeglasses, chasing occupants paralized Gnashing teeth, spilling gurneys, turning 180 degrees Groaning blankets with authoritative deadly weight Life, looking dubiously for the dawning sun Like a crop of tuberous begonias, desperately drowning Criss-crossing beneath, as light entering water Rolling out innards across tomorrow, seemingly lifeless Knee deep in horseshoe coves of frozen breakers Dammed by the sea, nothing or no one dares oppose Squalls of walls, dropping like tangled swords whistling blows Aloof backdrops of water’s murky sneeze from it’s belly, unreposed Crammed with spinning meat grinders, tearing flesh Nods like a foreman, heels cavernous blackened openings Torrential streams braiding lines unblinking incurable plague Striking flatulent commotions, cylindrical waves, baptizing hell Wrapping funerals with coffins, black magic in its spell A liquid talisman birthing spraying white stalks, like war-time telegrams Drinking a child’s soul, with fetid deadly smells Of swamp sea grass and thorny weeds, tearing flesh, rearranging history Winking condolences like a drifting dog’s rabid needs Prowess…waking up your mind, a vengeful footbridge teasing Animal-like whelps from every woman’s cry, clenching a stranger In black shirts rolling like dough, cylinders rising and falling with no where to go Like a sheeted ghost, ordering men in rows slammed shut Sea-salt frozen on the dreaded face of time’s window Swaying with the wind, like bugged out seething eyes Submerged in pools swollen with pale frothing dismal brine Dripping from rock’s tattered, twisting to look like a personal insult Facing the storm, the warden of death, suspended in black mystery Upon the rise and fall of surf piling in, roaring tempered engrossing sea Swirling water’s wrath hairpins each and every cliff eaten face Leaving a barren land, accumulating Tsunami’s slugging debris Lifeless spent...barren, to rebuild again By Lee J. |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
LeeJ.....you poem almost put me into word and image overload...enough here to write many poems. You write so well!  |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
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I don't know why your poetry isn't read by more people...maybe it's a bit overwhelming as far as length and vocabulary, awesome but a bit over my head at times, have to read twice to get things right, but I sure do enjoy the reading! Don't be discouraged. I will always read you. [This message has been edited by passing shadows (06-23-2003 09:24 AM).] |
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QjQ Member Elite
since 2003-04-18
Posts 3756U.S.A. |
very good write of poetry,,, A voice of honesty |
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