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Triskaidekaphobia
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since 2003-02-05
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In a state of disrepair...

0 posted 2006-06-28 06:36 AM




Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

The first one now, so badly done.
Where's all the filthy honey gone?
Is this Old Age setting in
or is that just a song?

Histrionics and improper forms
administered liquid as green dawn.
Well, another round as comes
and come it will, the bitter pill.

So lead me to the northern light
belonging to this swallowed night.
The thought I know is kindly hazed,
spirit sharpened by the crazed

Myriad monuments to melancholy
drunk while forcing frowns
from memory's dead towns
and the oldest of their sounds.

Perfection is exemption from redemption,
because a halo might burn my hair.

Help me, please, to help myself.
To help myself, to please the health.
Melodrama has the sweetest sound
in all the black sky
and the grey fire.

And besides...

Absinthe makes the hurt go under.

"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."
      

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LeeJ
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since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296

1 posted 2006-06-28 07:13 AM


incredible write...
enjoyed the ponder, the visuals, word play...exceptional read, thank you

You ask for comments, and constructive critiques that tell you what is wrong with the damned thing...be as cruel as you like???

From my point of view, and I don't deem myself a critique...this was a profound write and read...

Welcome to PIP and looking forward to reading more of you

passing shadows
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2 posted 2006-06-28 07:51 AM


"Perfection is exemption from redemption,
because a halo might burn my hair."

AWESOME

Wind
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3 posted 2006-06-28 01:29 PM


Weelll...as much as I like being brutal, I can't help but think there's not much wrong with this. I love it when writers aren't afraid to portray a sense of cynacism in their works. The ryhme scheme was nice as well, it didn't seem forced, and the poem was the right length. It wasn't long enough for me to get bored, but it didn't really leave an incomplete feeling either.
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