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Master Senior Member
since 1999-08-18
Posts 1867Boston, MA 
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What did the person look for in life before he died? Blue eyes to darkness have surrendered Your fervent heart would beat no more Your hand, diagonally extended, Lied motionless, not on the floor But high above it. There in slumber You slept and dreamt that you have tumbled Like Alice, down a rabbit’s hole, With nothing there to break your fall. A single moment’s repetition Would never cease inside your mind. You thought that it was left behind, But there it spun, the apparition,-- The word you read before you died, Before you walked into the light. Inside a book, the era festers A lifetime’s captured in one line-- The second column of the “Webster’s”-- The middle of nine-fourty-nine. Thus meaning slowly grows eternal Below the “purple passage, purple Scale, purplish, purply, purport...” Your eyes were focussed on one word, One explication—definition, You sought to find a little sense. All’s in the past, clock’s stubborn hands Will not reverse. The tenth edition Forever sealed your final plea Inside a word that all can see. |
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LyricFetish Senior Member
since 2000-01-13
Posts 528North Carolina |
Ummmmmm, very interesting......since I don't happen to have a Webster's handy I'll make a wild guess and say *purpose???* |
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Master Senior Member
since 1999-08-18
Posts 1867Boston, MA |
Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner! |
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Salooma Senior Member
since 2000-01-28
Posts 781 |
wow.....i couldn't have guessed that, but that was a real good poem as all your poems are master....great job! Salma "Not all the answers lie within your realm or mine, they lie within the borders." |
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Master Senior Member
since 1999-08-18
Posts 1867Boston, MA |
I started to write this one, hoping to come up with an epic (a really long poem). But after these two stanzas I can't write a word. Any ideas on where I could go from here? I was thinking of a flashback type of thing... |
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