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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738
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* * Above the fur a shoulder shrugged a strap slid down to bare The audience rose to their feet applauding all that wasn't there. Feathered fans and long lashes a caution of allure. The people stood, they lauded her, proclaiming they had seen her purse. Another blew a trumpet like an angel of the seven seals: She never turned a page of Book-- she understood the slow reveal. * * * Dancers of the Art, exposed the erotica of clothes. * * * Psyche sits and spins her cloth. She sews her sequins, where there ought to be a view most intimate as every coin we're thrown is spent toward the costume of our days-- fringe is just the price of fray. Change is naught but a quick peek at constant surreality evolving generalities: cliche's are spangles on the floor. * * |
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Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Dear Sis... I've not been around much, but it pleased me more than you might know to lay my eyes on this prize. Well done! |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
 Thank you. (and I've been here, but not here? grin--staring at apples, trying to get to the core of 'em without bruising the skin?) <--write that one for me!  Love you! |
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The Lady Member Rara Avis
since 2005-12-26
Posts 7634The Southwest |
"The audience rose to their feet applauding all that wasn't there" delightful! |
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therightside Member
since 2009-12-09
Posts 64USA |
You have a wonderful flow and great use of the english language. This is one of the most well-written pieces I have read on this site yet. You have talent. |
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Klassy Lassy Member Elite
since 2005-06-28
Posts 2187Oregon |
One thing your poetry never is, is spangles on the floor! I love the way you weave the deeper truth into the facade of what we present to the world. Such a word meister you are! ...as if you see some special language that speaks through your eyes and makes me wish I spoke the language of lashes better, too.  |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
No special language...just people, being themselves--that's special. If I can take an instant of a blink and make that translate--I feel filled. Much appreciation for time spent blinking at this--with love to all. thank you |
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Mysteria 
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
I just loved this Karen. It reminded me of the stories my Dad used to tell me of the showgirls he knew when he was younger. I remember about one, she put 5 kids through college by herself, and when they graduated? She quit and went back to school. Now you see I took this poem the way I wanted to and that is what good poetry does, it excites something in you. |
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