Happiness-Not! (double-acrostic challenge from Lady deVine)

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Happiness-Not! (double-acrostic challenge from Lady deVine)

DreamEvil
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since 1999-06-22

Posts 2396

0 posted 1999-09-25 02:04 AM

Imaginative passion fights ennui.
No vision is worth the loss of passion.

To follow dreams is to live in the past.
Heartache descends on those who walk that path.
Emotional loss will dim that desire.

Poetic license is always a trap.
Unconcern and apathy buries you.
Reason stretches your limits much too far.
Sadly, after dreams man always reaches.
Unforgiving pain is your guru.
Interest outlasts ability, say I.
Truth be told, happiness defies pursuit.

Order always falls before Chaos too.
Flouting one's talent will put people off.

Happiness is a perversion of truth.
All lost chances lead to hysteria.
Perhaps joy itself is too hard to keep.
Painful deceits cause tears that will not stop.
Incessant lies carry no alibi.
Never trust those who refuse to sadden.
Envious lust haunts those you disparage.
Sorrow rewards those who forget their loves.
Sadly there are those who chase happiness.

©1999 DreamEvil

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Now and forever my heart hears ~one voice~.
DreamEvil©

Poet deVine

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-05-26

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Hurricane Alley

1 posted 1999-09-25 02:09 AM

Ok..so you did it!! And quite nicely too! I had faith in you even if YOU didn't! Thank you!

Christopher

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-02

Posts 8296
Purgatorial Incarceration

2 posted 1999-09-25 02:10 AM

And free verse as well!
Amazing friend, you have truly done a wonder here!
"Unconcern and apathy buries you."

Too sad, too true.

Marvelously well captured!

caroline
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since 1999-08-16

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3 posted 1999-09-25 02:14 AM

hmmmm...this isn't at all what you said it was, Dream

You did a great job with this. You really know how to meet a challenge!

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The only man worth your tears will never make you cry...

Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

4 posted 1999-09-25 02:17 AM

Exquisitely done, Dream
Love the last line...although I stand guilty.

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Michael Anderson

And so, being young and dipt in folly
I fell in love with melancholy,
But dreams - of those who dream as I,
Aspiringly, are damned, and die:

EAP

Christopher

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-02

Posts 8296
Purgatorial Incarceration

5 posted 1999-09-25 02:18 AM

Double Damn!
Again!
At the same poem, I am bewildered twice!
Amazing.

Severn
Member Rara Avis

since 1999-07-17

Posts 7704

6 posted 1999-09-25 06:39 AM

Brilliant, Dream - and sad as ever!

's for you.

hoot_owl_rn
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since 1999-07-05

Posts 10750
Glen Hope, PA USA

7 posted 1999-09-25 10:05 AM

Nice one Dream

Pepper
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since 1999-08-19

Posts 3079
Southern Florida

8 posted 1999-09-25 10:11 AM

Brilliant....wow

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May your days be filled with lots of sunshine and your nights lit up by golden moonbeams

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