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Open Poetry #48

The Ice Queen

CastleGuard
Senior Member

since 2003-04-30

Posts 760
Alberta, Canada

0 posted 2013-05-31 12:30 PM

She stands there
Like a Queen among men
A paralyzing Beauty
Casts a spell without a word
Commands with a cold indifference
Shields her cryogenic heart

What is Beauty without emotion
But a marble statue
A frozen hand
An empty ocean
A storm without a thunder
A flower without a scent

Tell me – would you trade
Some of your beauty
For a flicker of a flame?
On my extended hand
I offer my crimson passion
But your ice quenches all

Like the Sphinx
Was once perfection
Sand slips thru fingers
Beauty returns
To the dunes of the past
The heart turns to vapor

It dissipates
Warming no one…

CG

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

1 posted 2013-05-31 07:27 PM

I enjoyed your well-depicted poem, Castleguard. It reminded me so much, in its own way, of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Ozymandias.

Owl

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

2 posted 2013-06-01 10:23 PM

a grand-fine 'penning!' ...

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

3 posted 2013-06-05 12:44 PM

Nice...James

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