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VAS
Member Rara Avis
since 2000-11-16
Posts 7450
Oregon

0 posted 2003-11-22 12:24 PM


“It’s a Mad,
Mad, Mad, Mad
World”
was certainly
before its time
but now the world
out there
says that time is
prime.

Oh
verily
I say to you
beauty can be seen
the exquisite
can be found,
yet the workings of man
stack evils
to compound.

The tragedy
that’s called
comedy
creates an angst
in me
that I’ve want
to free.

Murderous war
to even up the score
in a name’s adore
killing
innocent
and poor...

Fury and rage
fill up the page
of a living stage;
how is one to gauge
in this day and age
all sin’s final
wage

In such a mad, mad, mad, mad world?

©November 22, 2003

Whether on the shoal or on the shore,
I'll seek the lighthouse evermore.

© Copyright 2003 Virginia Salter - All Rights Reserved
passing shadows
Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577
displaced
1 posted 2003-11-22 01:10 PM


it's a sad sad sad world to me...just sad

good write

garysgirl
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since 2002-09-29
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2 posted 2003-11-22 09:55 PM


Yes, it sure is sometimes.
Good writing, Virginia.
Hugs  
Ethel

mytuesdaywishes
Member
since 2003-09-05
Posts 254
a voice from the musicbox
3 posted 2003-11-22 09:59 PM


wow....very nice perspective

joy has its own justice. and dreams are languid and lawless. and everything bows to beauty, when it's fierce and when it's flawless...

ecrivan
Member Elite
since 2001-12-10
Posts 3923
my own state
4 posted 2003-11-23 12:42 PM


mad as we muddle about with much ado about nothing...only certain men would like to think of their plans as admirable, great or divinely inspired.enjoyed


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