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celestecat
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since 2004-02-02
Posts 29


0 posted 2004-02-04 12:57 PM


Even the wind has taken
on a different shape
as though we were
trained in inconsistancy.

The anger of
a thousand years
continues
but it can not touch you

it can not touch you.

We know the potent
anger of our years
that we have never felt.

Innocence is no shelter
we know your face
we can look you in the eye
and speak
violence;

between one other
we intimately know
the language.

we search for enemies;
the pain of heritage
ebbs freely
our pain is the legacy
of our race
the blind violence
of previous years

My thoughts
which drive me forward:
Never again



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Serra_Avatar
Member
since 2004-01-11
Posts 58

1 posted 2004-02-04 01:15 AM


A troubled World indeed. I find myself constently trying to battle its many forms. Young as I am I lack the power to take the fight to the enemy itself.
passing shadows
Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577
displaced
2 posted 2004-02-04 03:14 AM


this hit home

I have to agree with Avatar's reply too

ice
Member Elite
since 2003-05-17
Posts 3404
Pennsylvania
3 posted 2004-02-04 07:08 AM


celestecat

Deep thoughts, well done....especially the end line resolution.
enjoyed
_______ice
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Avatar
Arm yourelf with the truth, study history well..Doing that will prepare you to meet the enmy well armed, when it shows its face.
_____ice
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iliana
Member Patricius
since 2003-12-05
Posts 13434
USA
4 posted 2004-02-04 02:09 PM


Potent poetry, celestecat.  It makes me think of the middle east conflict or the problems that were in Bosnia, etc.  History and its wind.  I feel it.
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