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Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

0 posted 2010-06-21 08:07 AM

Come to this;
Each die cast as bones reflecting in amber eyes
A firelight of Alice and of Dorothy revealed
Between the syllables of words traced upon a vellum
Scarce the pale of skin once turned pink
Of pleasure imagined as the rhyme
Turned reason into dream

Did fair myths endure the tragic gaze
That comes with a winter’s day?

Read the leaves and sigh as might
A remembered voice of spring that some eternal
Journey on the Mobius be found a beginning begs
No end, no end…. This leaving of returns
And half waifed eyes to see too much of life
But still

The bones lie upon the cloth
In a whisper of the fates that only the sockets
So graced with insight might stay

She never said go away

And gazed upon the mirror with her tousled hair
Set upon the fair skull and prayed for ways
To keep it all

So long these nights endure in chill
As on the tilt of axis another year begins of clay and wine
In form of enduring love
A waxen grave of wicks and soot

The ashes scribed on hearth in ecstatic phrase
She echoed what the Hemlock soughed

I will endure
     I will endure

Wisp~o~willow left bare will bud in time
To bear upon it green and it shall bend
Along the quiet water where flows to Emerald
And city framed in yellow bricks

Dorothy Bowed
  To Alice’s dream and clicked her heels
“there’s no place like home”
    “no place like home”
While Alice sat at tea a Hatter’s Queen

So Little room
      For a heart of Tin

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

1 posted 2010-06-21 09:24 AM

a fairytale~ a prayer~

~entranced, as ever, Chief~

Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

2 posted 2010-06-21 09:54 AM

Thank you Ma'am... glad your eyes found something to please them here..

I came across the Map/conversations with Scratch series... perhaps I will play with them next, since as you know I have written nothing new in quite some time... Some I will need to edit a bit for the forum...LOL... as I lapsed at times into subject matter and language not appropriate for here...

it is good to read you again m'dear..... thank you.... for sharing and for your extremely kind comments.

Amaryllis
Senior Member

since 2010-05-20

Posts 1306
Mi now

3 posted 2010-06-21 01:19 PM

I love the places this takes me.. wonderful, woozy journey! Your writing reminds me of Dark`s.. and I sometimes am too thick to get it.. =( but still somehow it doesn`t stop me from enjoying the poem! Great writing.

~Amaryllis

Dark Stranger
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since 2001-03-19

Posts 13631
West Coast

4 posted 2010-06-21 01:32 PM

C' very cool stuff..can see ol Johnny Depp nodding from under his hat...he would call you sir I imagine.

Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

5 posted 2010-06-21 02:13 PM

Amaryllis,
I think reading my scribbles is a bit like trying to eat pizza through a straw...
so don't think of yourself as "thick" if you don't get it...
there's way too many personal and back stories to most of it for it to make sense to anyone...

Reminds you of Dark's huh? well ma'am.... that is indeed a compliment, thank you.

Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

6 posted 2010-06-21 02:15 PM

Dark, you eyes on this meager piece are appreciated sir... you and i both know I can't hold a candle to those who really want to twist the tale but I do appreciate your very kind words..
nice to read you again, by the way... still as smooth as always...and as talented as I remember....

thank you sir

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