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Open Poetry #2

Beauty and the Beheld

H. Arlequin
Member

since 1999-08-23

Posts 210

0 posted 1999-09-26 08:45 PM

Beauty and the Beheld

"But, Lord, I hate being beautiful,
as if the curtain rising on stage,
every day performing, a dutiful
actress earning beauty's wage.

And their eyes, always following
like radar driven ordinance,
I, the target, they, gods allowing
no escape, nothing left to chance."

Filet mingon, name me the choicest cut,
a piece of meat before the grill,
to be consumed, my home the gut,
forgotten, till again, he'd eat his fill.

"Lord, let me take the veil, shave my head,
masked from brow to toe save eyes,
than let them leer, dream my bed,
abase my soul until it dies."

--H. Arlequin
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Poems From the Goober Tree http://nathoo.wustl.edu/goober_tree.htm

hoot_owl_rn
Member Patricius

since 1999-07-05

Posts 10750
Glen Hope, PA USA

1 posted 1999-09-26 09:01 PM

Very nice imagery in this piece...welcome to passions

H. Arlequin
Member

since 1999-08-23

Posts 210

2 posted 1999-09-27 01:13 PM

smoooooooooooooches, hoot

HA

snow in summer
Member

since 1999-08-28

Posts 67

3 posted 1999-09-27 10:54 PM

Radar driven ordinance is a tremendously powerful and very creative line. The ending is also just wonderful - so evocative and the perfect ending to this poem. well done!

H. Arlequin
Member

since 1999-08-23

Posts 210

4 posted 1999-09-29 10:36 AM

smoooooooooches snow!!

HA

Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

5 posted 1999-09-29 12:01 PM

Wow, this is great. To find such a curse in beauty....I love it.

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Michael Anderson

May Darkness find you all through the day.

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