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The Mask
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The Mask |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America 
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 Free Music Let's take an in-depth look at this splendid specimen Undulating power within her frame Correlating poise with muscle She stands aloof inside her femininity Pointed breasts and heavy thighs Half-covering her sex Tantalizingly so Revealing one muscular calf A pose Goddess-like The lady is shy Head thrown back, eyes closed to the world Ready at a moments notice To don another persona The one She owns in case Need might arise To don the face she hides from the world A face of the hunter bold To replace Maybe permanently some distant day The refined one she now wears With a satisfied smirk Looking upward A half-smile Frozen Mocking onlookers In her left hand she grasps the Mask Clutched the correct explanatory word The sculptor wanted us to intimately observe Her arm brought back toward the body Fingers gripping the Mask Holding it away from her sneering face She seems prepared to fling The Mask as she would a discus Far away from her N'er to be found again And . . . Well . . . If that were to happen Her right hand holding onto the fallen toga Would release it Allowing it to fall gracefully To the floor She would be Naked unto the world No more wonderment No more mocking poetry Here I am This is I Make of me what you shall What, then shall we make of her As she stands naked, unashamed Alone An object for prying eyes Will sneering laughter from us Promote her tears to rain down from anguish Onto the ground and into our souls Our scorning is done She has mocked us in return Allowing us to see The raw her without the Mask Making her vulnerable Ah, but the marbled lady Holds fast to her Mask It soothes her It gives her meaning within Just as ours do us ~ Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die. ~ [This message has been edited by JerryPat (01-28-2011 09:43 PM).] |
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faithmairee Senior Member
since 2011-01-05
Posts 1441Poe Haven, USA |
WOW...this is awesome...writing at it's best! There must be a poem in here somewhere. |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
I wouldn't go that far, Faith, but thank you just the same. ~ Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die. ~ |
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faithmairee Senior Member
since 2011-01-05
Posts 1441Poe Haven, USA |
you didn't, i did  it's superb!There must be a poem in here somewhere. |
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ethome Member Patricius
since 2000-05-14
Posts 11858New Brunswick Canada |
Great to read about a statue that's sincere. Full of meaning and class. Quite the sculpture. Enjoyed very much Jerry. Eric the assured expectation of things hoped for, the evident demonstration of reality though not beheld |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
Appreciate it, Eric. ~ Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die. ~ |
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XGarapanX Senior Member
since 2008-06-19
Posts 1435Antarctica |
:p  :r·´~`·»Garapan«·´~`· "Look! Crumbs on his jacketses... Heeee took it!" |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
Since I have no idea what you posted on the comments, XGarapanX, I have no idea of what to say. ~ Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die. ~ |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
An excellent sculpture in the round and an excellently sculptured poem, Jerry in so many ways. My new puppy has chewed through my power cable. I hope I can get one today, but may not be able to get one until Wednesday, if at all as my laptop was bought in 2007. I don't have much battery power left and I need to try to save some battery power left to send the messages to Linda (Earth Angel) from my thread in Announcements every day, if at all possible. Just explaining why I possibly won’t be able to respond to any poems for a while after a couple today. Owl |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
Thank you, Owl, and hope you get things straightened out soon. ~ Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die. ~ |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
Took my breath away with this one Jerry! I love this. Lori |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
Hi Lori, thank you so much for your thoughts about the poem. ~ Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die. ~ |
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