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Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

0 posted 2013-09-11 07:27 PM

Stilled

I've heard silence is deafening—
Learned nothing's blinding too.
I stare at nothing anyway,
What else have I to do?
The heat in this hell sweltering,
The heart within me froze;
I pass the hours each day this way,
The ritual I've chose...

Till darkness closes around me,
As I lie beneath the light;
With the only sound my heartbeat,
As I become one with Night.
I can see how Time has bound me—
Strapped a chain to every thought,
And tied my hope to dreams replete
With passions of the distraught!

Still I know an answer's forming
Just beyond my conscious grasp...
I feel the sinister grating
On whispers, not but a rasp.
And I know the night is storming,
But lie, at peace, on my bed;
For what good is self-berating
Once the emotion's been bled?

When the world just keeps turning,
But Time's left you standing still.
While ambition grows lethargic,
And daylight, itself, saps your will.
Where that hope's no longer burning—
Neither anger in its stead.
When the candle's down to the wick,
And you're just this side of dead.

Michael Anderson

BluesSerenade
Member Patricius

since 2001-10-23

Posts 10549
By the Seaside

1 posted 2013-09-12 12:13 PM

You write of the darkness in broad daylight...which is intriguing to me. I liked what you said about the emotion being bled. Never sure what to say but you are a fine poet, Sir.

Nan

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-05-20

Posts 21191
Cape Cod Massachusetts USA

2 posted 2013-09-12 06:02 AM

Wise words, Mike - I enjoyed reading them. Thanks for letting us into your thoughts once more..

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

3 posted 2013-09-12 07:19 AM

You never cease to amaze...you never run out of ways and words to discribe.....

Lori

s1nfully_1nn0c3nt
Senior Member

since 2003-10-26

Posts 1105
Watertown, NY

4 posted 2013-09-12 08:36 AM

This is exquisite. You write about darkness, and make it beautiful. Enjoyed.

-Trina
I'll keep these dreams hidden
inside these eyes of mine
until my tears fall
unto my tainted hear

poetically ghetto
Member

since 2004-01-20

Posts 100

5 posted 2013-09-12 05:48 PM

not only has time bound us but your use of words is a spell in itself mad respect for your poetry always leaves an imprint

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