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If Roses Be Red |
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Michael
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666California 
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If Roses Be Red Rose are red, irrelevant that is true, When all of your life no one's ever loved you. Sugar may taste sweet but life falls incomplete, When no-one you meet recognizes Virtue. Candy is dandy, but sex don't rot the teeth, It's only your morality you bequeath. So you join on in and revel in the sin, But your only kin is the pain deep beneath. Unfazed by the crazed in the hazing of life, You brandish scars proudly, and toy with the knife. But sorrow depicted is the worst wound inflicted, As all hope is constricted when dignity becomes strife. You anguish in contempt, whatever you do. Misery is your Love and Malice your due. Life being the nightmare no dreamer could share, If roses be red, fare then that blood is blue! ------------------ Michael Anderson And after-drunkeness of soul Succeeds the glory of the bowl - An idle longing night and day To dream my very life away EAP [This message has been edited by Michael (edited 10-30-1999).] |
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For_Never Member
since 1999-10-27
Posts 125Cincinnati, oh, United States of America |
Nice art, micheal. Reminds me so of abstact art...that is more close to reality than life.. Edward A. Beerman It seems to me, this jaded piece, enacts upon wounds most deep... although its a shame, that darkness doth claim the prize of the Valorous kind, for oft it is said, "its all in your head" when in fact.. it's absorbed.. in your heart.. |
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poetFemmeFatale Member Elite
since 1999-07-25
Posts 2646Arkansas |
Umm....hehe this was a very interesting piece, dear Michael...as I told you - most of the time it's hard for me to comment on your "dark" writings....but this one struck me as very interesting.....hhmm....I like.  Some really interesting thoughts in this....------------------ ~~ Lift your head high - spread your "words" and fly - - poetFemmeFatale |
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DreamEvil Member Elite
since 1999-06-22
Posts 2396 |
Blueblood indeed. As with the term, I feel somewhat archaic, as if I have been born too far into the future. My lot lies in the past. This is a richly striking piece you have written. 'Tis one of my favorites I think. ------------------ Now and forever, my heart hears ~one voice~. DreamEvil© |
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Systematic Decay Senior Member
since 1999-09-15
Posts 1301That place with padded walls and funny people in white......... |
Striking indeed- an attention getter in the first line. ------------------ "Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage." -Billy Corgan- |
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JennyLee Senior Member
since 1999-09-01
Posts 1461Northwestern, NJ. |
I like very much... But sorrow depicted is the worst wound inflicted...so precise and very true. Well Done. Jenny Lee  [This message has been edited by JennyLee (edited 10-31-1999).] |
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D.B. Whyte Member
since 1999-10-27
Posts 94Crest Hill, IL, USA |
Nicely struck, M. Unfazed by the crazed in the hazing of life Hurt so often, it became a part..... ------------------ Doing what can't be done is the glory of living. ---Samuel C. Armstrong |
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Christopher
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-02
Posts 8296Purgatorial Incarceration |
I must stand with Dream on this. I fear often that I was born centuries too late. As to the poem Michael, aother deep masterpiece, with meaning buried and convoluted. And quite pertinent I believe. |
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Watcher666 Senior Member
since 1999-10-13
Posts 1606 |
Echo's of my thoughts this day.Well done ------------------ Illusion...what we see and what we do...it's all up to you. |
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Michael
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666California |
Chris, I think we,(Dream, you and I), were all born at least a century too late. This was written for Dream for those of you who may not have figured it out. Michael |
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