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serenity blaze
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0 posted 2004-12-01 02:22 AM


The last thing that I needed
was
a lack
of any thing:

I leaned
to hear her prophecy
as though
were written in the drool
of the ink
of too much school
hanging
from her lip,
she ruled -
banging fist upon the bar:

"It ain't all about the art,"

she said to me, an elbow lean
dropping ashes
fusing scars
puddling her circumstance,

"'tender, please another shot"
she waved her butt magnanimous

"there are visions in the dust"

she nodded swirling
lashes in
melds
of gray elbow and that --
She exhaled and stabbed at it
as though it were a long lost friend
that whom had betrayed her too.

(I knew)
and drank the sympathy...

I grinned.

I'll survive the night
I thought
I downed her shot of cuervo then
begging her to tell me why
and what she thought was art.

"It's all about the skin,"
she smiled
melting show of skeleton
peeling back her lips
she sighed
offering her tongue
too thin
coated with
a snowcap melt
and participles
dangled in
the journey of her throat

I lied

saying, "yes, I see..."
*ahem*
as she lit another cig
concentrating on the end
wavering and knowing that
red lights cap the whiskey musk
smiling at me droopy eyed
a piece of art, herself,
exhaled...

pieces
patching art

I failed

and bought another round...

[This message has been edited by serenity blaze (12-01-2004 04:15 AM).]

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Snowflake From Hell
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1 posted 2004-12-01 02:23 AM


nice i like this one

can you fly like a penguin

serenity blaze
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2 posted 2004-12-01 03:15 AM


thanks snowflake



If there's a smilie with huge gonads, I think I deserve it for the audacity of the title alone.

*chuckle* (picturing the visual, here)

thanks for reading my wanderings


~DreamChild~
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3 posted 2004-12-01 04:09 AM


hmmm. a very delightful read, as a matter of fact. i'll have to read more!
choshi
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4 posted 2004-12-01 05:39 AM


Beautiful writing....very much like this one....~P
Dark Angel
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5 posted 2004-12-01 07:55 AM


leaned
to hear her prophecy
as though
were written in the drool
of the ink
of too much school
hanging
from her lip


How do you do it? Take the reader right there alongside you. I swear I was there.

Yer amazin M'lady

it's a keeper

into this night i wonder, it's morning that i dread, another day of knowing of, the path i fear to tread.
~Sarah McLachlan~

scorpio
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right...there
6 posted 2004-12-01 08:33 AM


Much enjoyed.

believe in what your heart feels...

kayjay
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7 posted 2004-12-01 09:24 AM


You draw a compelling picture of artist and neophyte trying to communicate. Well done.  Ken

Through rubble and trouble and dark of night
The yawn of a dawn will hasten the light

Susan Caldwell
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8 posted 2004-12-01 09:28 AM


"It's all about the skin,"
she smiled
melting show of skeleton
peeling back her lips
she sighed
offering her tongue
too thin
coated with
a snowcap melt
and participles
dangled in
the journey of her throat"

Loved it!

and Karen?

you think you need to be given some gonads?

your gonads are what attracted me to you in the first place...







"cast me gently into the morning, for the night has been unkind"
~Sarah McLachlan~

ice
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9 posted 2004-12-01 09:47 AM


Applause.....Bravo!, loved reading this; eyes eating down through the parfait swirls of its conversation...
The final drop of chocolate in the ending, was delicious...
________ice
   ><>

Enchantress
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Canada eh.
10 posted 2004-12-01 02:22 PM


Excellent Ser..you amaze me lady~
jellybeans
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11 posted 2004-12-01 02:37 PM


hmmm, this sorta reminds me of rebel's people pieces for some reason (and you know that's a good thing *s*)...so much insight, so sharp in texture....
serenity blaze
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12 posted 2004-12-01 05:36 PM


laughing @ Susan--and why do I have this visual of a "hippity-hop" in my head?



I'm so happy ya'll enjoyed this one. It's one that I wrote while chuckling, and that's always fun.

Thanks for taking the time. I truly appreciate the comments.

And sheesh, Susan.

Janet Marie
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13 posted 2004-12-02 01:39 PM


she said to me, an elbow lean
dropping ashes
fusing scars
puddling her circumstance,

"'tender, please another shot"
she waved her butt magnanimous

"there are visions in the dust"

she nodded swirling
lashes in
melds
of gray elbow and that --
She exhaled and stabbed at it
as though it were a long lost friend
that whom had betrayed her too.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
saying, "yes, I see..."
*ahem*
as she lit another cig
concentrating on the end
wavering and knowing that
red lights cap the whiskey musk
smiling at me droopy eyed
a piece of art, herself,
exhaled

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
you make art of ashtrays baby.....
talk about poetic personification...

puddling her circumstance


she waved her butt magnanimous


She exhaled and stabbed at it
as though it were a long lost friend
that whom had betrayed her too.



I dont even smoke and I can taste and smell the nicotine  


Sunshine
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Listening to every heart
14 posted 2004-12-02 01:42 PM



oh, yea....


Alicat
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15 posted 2004-12-02 02:15 PM


*much Beatnik-wannabe snapping of traumatized bifurcated digits*

The images are vivid, revealing tawdry mundanity in contrast to the much maligned bar surface sneering with glass stained eyes and puckered cigarette burns.  'Feel my pain, feel my pain. I is art, youse is s'not.'  Unheard, unheeded yet leaned heavily upon by drooling mavins eating their fingers by the glass.  Make it two, make it three, just leave the bottle and another round for me.

Heh, don't know how you do it, but you do.

serenity blaze
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16 posted 2004-12-02 05:06 PM


*chuckle*

Yet again, Alistair's reply is better than my poem. Thanks bro.



And Jan-girlie? I confess this retired barfly misses the moments on occasion.

So now I just make 'em up.

Love to all.

(and somebody? Hit D3 on the juke, will ya? Gawd I love Marvin Gaye... )

yeah, what's goin' on...I tell you what's goin' on...

(serenity exits, singin')

passing shadows
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17 posted 2004-12-03 12:22 PM


I wish I could write like this
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18 posted 2004-12-03 07:07 PM


(( hugs))

   and I haven't forgotten I owe you an e-mail...

this ma'am does what we talked about.. paints the image of common into something that is art....

well done ma'am... very well done...

serenity blaze
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19 posted 2004-12-03 07:27 PM





Martie
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20 posted 2004-12-03 07:31 PM


I agree with Ron...I usually do anyway...and Karen, YOU, are a piece of art!!
serenity blaze
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21 posted 2004-12-03 07:32 PM




*chuckle*

why not? thanks to both of you

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22 posted 2004-12-04 09:27 PM


enjoyed. i have missed all of you here and your words, insight, inspiration thanks


brian sites
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23 posted 2004-12-05 12:57 PM


this

is

stunning


this...you capture nuances
that most people unconciously see
but you

examine
           and write it

and that?

is poetry

thank you Aiwe

GG
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24 posted 2004-12-05 08:55 PM


I've learned not to try to take the title and 'visualize' what art you may have beneath until after a read or two. You scare me a bit, y'know. But that's good
Great write.

Always, Alyssa

He was a man of sorrows
...I am a girl of tears.

wranx
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25 posted 2004-12-05 11:34 PM


I was meaning to give this a bump when it finally faded from the front page...

But? A poem this strong may linger here until next year.

Yeah, THAT good!

y'yeti

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26 posted 2004-12-05 11:56 PM


oh, but damn!
I ALMOST missed this jewel!
art
pure art
and then some
layered with heart and understanding
love the way you brushed this one across this blue canvas

I can see her, drool and all

bowing to the artist

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27 posted 2004-12-06 04:22 PM


(chuckling)

like I told ya ma'am... like I told ya...

  

littlewing
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28 posted 2004-12-07 07:39 PM


The last thing that I needed
was
a lack
of any thing:


yes *sigh*

Karen?  I have been gone too long.  You have found that vinegar and ya drank it, didnt ya?

*smile*

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