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0 posted 2003-12-17 06:49 PM


Idealism

The innocence of my youth
Is impaled on wooden posts
Resembling a picket fence.
Disappointment,
Which was once a facet of self-betrayal,
Is to me, now, a missed
Appointment with the Dentist,
Or some other such sterile
Practitioner,
Not getting what I want for Christmas,
Or, perhaps, all of this.

Media delusions on the morning news
Are a luxury -- burying sorrow
In a quicksand of smiles.
And I hunger for reality.
I yearn for escape.

My devouring days
Are loud with familiar sounds
-- All of them in Dolby Surround
Until the swooning parade
Lulls me in a fitful sleep
-- A sweat bead of heat and horror.
But I’m adrift and the nightmares
Are murmurs
And only a vague desire for dreams
Still burrows in my skin.

Sight is an always awful beginning

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1 posted 2003-12-17 09:00 PM


Interesting write. Chris

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."
-Plato



    

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2 posted 2003-12-18 12:38 PM


So many cool images in this--

"The innocence of my youth
Is impaled on wooden posts
Resembling a picket fence."

"My devouring days
Are loud with familiar sounds
-- All of them in Dolby Surround"

nice depiction of some gritty introspection.

Enjoyed this much.

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3 posted 2003-12-23 04:40 AM


Quite exceptional, as always.  Great work; your ideas always are so well thought out and presented.
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