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Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2007-03-19 08:35 AM

A soul feeds on love like a lion with prey,
the fleshy part first then the gnawing on bone
until nothing remains but the feeding for free
on snippets and bits of memory recalls.

Then hunger awakes the once satisfied
in beg and plead for the essence of feel
and the lion arises, the birds disappear,
but the ground holds no trace, no smell,
for one who would stalk for sustenance.

There is shade from a tree grown older like me,
a river of need where the thirsty can drink
but this just a dream to the wild and untamed
and the lion walks on for a million days.

Head down with a mane thinning and grey
and a heart unspent haggard and bent
the lion lies down and gives up life rights
to the eating and eating and eating again.

And nobody sighs at the sight of that lion;
they did not know there was hunger inside
but a soul owns the deed to forever life rights
and cannot survive if the food has run out.

A soul feeds on love; didn’t you know
the fleshy part first before you must go?

Helen / 19 March 2007

jak
Member

since 2007-03-14

Posts 85
Charlotte, NC

1 posted 2007-03-19 03:03 PM

"Head down with a mane thinning and grey
and a heart unspent haggard and bent
the lion lies down and gives up life rights
to the eating and eating and eating again."

This was the best part for me. Thanks for sharing.

Jak
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iliana
Member Patricius

since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

2 posted 2007-03-20 01:52 AM

You are so clever with your analogies, Helen! Good one, again.

....jo

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

3 posted 2007-03-20 03:01 PM

good one indeed

I liked the part jak picked

Drauntz
Member Elite

since 2007-03-16

Posts 2905
Los Angeles California

4 posted 2007-03-20 07:19 PM

very good one.
read with trembling. grace and justice.

dwgpoet
Member

since 2007-03-05

Posts 122
FL, USA

5 posted 2007-03-20 07:39 PM

Great One! Makes me want to Faun,

Xcept, Lion Eats! I be gone;

I be Donned a "Lesson Juan"

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