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Open Poetry #1

All Things Shall Return

JP
Senior Member

since 1999-05-25

Posts 1343
Loomis, CA

0 posted 1999-08-01 06:24 AM

He sits quietly,
sickly glow of monitor,
casting face in death's radiance,
wondering how he will survive.
Her death was well deserved
and long time in coming,
evil demon of lust and greed,
who passing from this coil,
will give life to this heart.
He places fingers on keys,
to begin his life anew,
painting portraits in rhyme,
sculpting statues in prose.
the very life's blood again,
that once made him a man,
but which she stole violently.
He taps the squares of the muse,
watching verse flow before him,
feeling the power of creation,
in his abiltiy to pen joy.
Somewhere, in labrynth of thought,
he senses her soul stir,
the soul of doubt and fear,
the soul of the mute, the numb.
He feels her seethe deep,
weak, not quite as dead,
as he had prayed for.
He races with poem,
trying to put down each line,
cause he understands,
with the certainty of the dead,
that she will come back to him.
for like sorrow, and the misty ocean,
all things shall return.

Ex nihilo nihil fit
JP

[This message has been edited by JP (edited 08-02-99).]

JP
Senior Member

since 1999-05-25

Posts 1343
Loomis, CA

1 posted 1999-08-02 01:18 PM

I was challenged to write a poem with the verse "and like the misty ocean, all things shall return"

This is the fruit of that seed...

Obscurum per obscurius
JP

hoot_owl_rn
Member Patricius

since 1999-07-05

Posts 10750
Glen Hope, PA USA

2 posted 1999-08-02 07:48 PM

Well, JP.....I must say, you met up to the challange well with this one! I really enjoyed it.

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"Nobody has measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold" ~Zelda Fitzgerald

Andrew Scott
Member Elite

since 1999-06-24

Posts 2558
Redlands,CA,USA

3 posted 1999-08-02 08:03 PM

Consider the challenge answered and conquered. I've only read a few of you works but I've yet to be disappointed. I doubt I ever will be. Well written, I bow to you and yours.

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