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Open Poetry #3

Euphemia- 1638

Mike
Member Elite

since 1999-06-19

Posts 2462

0 posted 1999-11-01 12:28 PM

Hush of dawn rests like benediction
Over silent grandeur of towering mountains,
Flushed sky brightens into fiery eruption.

Violent paroxysm portends destruction,
Dark cloud descends as blackest night
As earth is rent in Hell's retribution.

Tongues of flame from Styx's explosion
Bring forth streams of fire as ocean's tide,
Flow over land to life's expulsion.

Five thousand souls in conflagration,
Euphemia sinks into earth's bosom,
Swallowed whole, annihilation.

Clouds of dust obscure forgotten foundation,
Remnants of forgotten existence,
Melancholy ruins of desolation.

hoot_owl_rn
Member Patricius

since 1999-07-05

Posts 10750
Glen Hope, PA USA

1 posted 1999-11-01 09:32 AM

Okay...quit showing off now

Excellent work here...what a rhyme scheme you got going on there.

I sit here in extreme frustration
I don't possess your imagination
To create such a masterful creation
Like yours, would be my salvation

[This message has been edited by hoot_owl_rn (edited 11-01-1999).]

Mike
Member Elite

since 1999-06-19

Posts 2462

2 posted 1999-11-01 08:07 PM

Thank ya Hoot...
tried something a little different...
don't think it has much to do with imagination... just a few bricks shy of a load...

Denise

Moderator

Member Seraphic

since 1999-08-22

Posts 22648

3 posted 1999-11-01 08:08 PM

Very descriptive....I can feel the heat! And too, the pain. Very well done, Mike.

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Denise

Watcher666
Senior Member

since 1999-10-13

Posts 1606

4 posted 1999-11-02 03:25 AM

So well done!! Liked this much!

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Illusion...what we see and what we do...it's all up to you.

Mike
Member Elite

since 1999-06-19

Posts 2462

5 posted 1999-11-02 07:42 AM

Thank you Denise and Watcher. Thanks for reading and commenting.

[This message has been edited by Mike (edited 11-02-1999).]

Seymour Tabin
Member Empyrean

since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

6 posted 1999-11-02 08:06 AM

Mike,
That was quite a storm, enjoyed the read.

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