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Triskaidekaphobia
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since 2003-02-05

Posts 251
In a state of disrepair...

0 posted 2005-07-07 06:41 PM

I echo in half-sleep.
I formed a lake
From the fish bowl,
A beach out of salt.
I married silence,
Tuesday last week.
Beat her on the honeymoon,
Divorced by the lake.
I personify virtues
To have someone to meet;
Then they just leave.
I drink from two glasses
And pretend I’m the girl
But can’t get her drunk.
I’d talk to the mirror but
There’s nothing on my wall.

I crafted opinions
On the knots on the floor.
I sit in the corner
And beg by the door.
I stare at the clock face
And make Time my whore.

I echo in half-sleep.
I made a god
Out of paperbacks,
A flock from the rest.
I married madness,
Tuesday this week.
Beat me on the lakeshore,
Divorced by TV.
I severed my hair
To make into people;
But they just burnt.
I eat from two plates
And pretend I’m the girl
But she won’t eat.
I’d write a novel but
There's nothing to say.

I offered dominion
To the cracks on the floor.
I cry in the corner
My back to the door.
I stare at the clock face
And make Time my whore.

"And the sun went down, and the stars came out far over the summer sea,
But never a moment ceased the fight of the one and the fifty-three."

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

1 posted 2005-07-07 07:45 PM

WOW....

nakdthoughts
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since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

2 posted 2005-07-07 07:47 PM

well that was more than what I could say after reading, Sunshine~~~

I didn't know how to reply to this.

M

Susan Caldwell
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-12-27

Posts 8348
Florida

3 posted 2005-07-11 10:18 AM

oh there were so many outstanding lines in this....

"I personify virtues
To have someone to meet;
Then they just leave"

That one punched me in the gut. I know so many that do just that. They always end up alone because they can't even be who they really are with themselves...

I loved this very, very much!

"too bad ignorance isn't painful"
~Unknown~

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

4 posted 2005-07-11 10:26 AM

Triskaidekaphobia
A strong write, enjoyed.

LeeJ
Member Patricius

since 2003-06-19

Posts 13296

5 posted 2005-07-11 12:56 PM

Wow indeed, this was a poem above for me....the read had self examination written all over it...pondering in those quiet times of our lives, reaching for the good in all things...or they reach for us....?

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.