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Munda
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0 posted 2000-01-28 05:58 PM


Okidoki, here we go again  


You’re a darkness creeping up my brain
Mystery of emotional pain
I cry you a sea of crystal tears
You  hold a grip on my deepest fears

Sometimes you embrace with tenderness
Making me burn my passionate flesh
Hold my heart in the palm of your hand
Make me believe I’m in Wonderland

However, Love, you I cannot hate,
For you are also the singing blade
Of the sword of my life’s melody
Piercing my heart, yet setting me free

Drowning me in my own misery
But also making these blind eyes see
Flying me on wings of illusion
Creating order in confusion

While my sorrow embrace the sun
The rainbow’s colouring has begun
And the sea lets out a crystal roar
My dreamship gently washes ashore

Gloomy and painful you smile at me
Love, inevitable destiny


Thanks for the inspiration Not A Poet !  

Munda


[This message has been edited by Munda (edited 01-28-2000).]

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Denise
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1 posted 2000-01-28 06:32 PM


Good job, Munda!  

Denise

Skyfyre
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2 posted 2000-01-28 08:14 PM


Eureka!  Ladies and gentlemen, she has done it again ...

Wonderful, wonderful poem, Munda, and a classic example of personification -- well woven into several metaphors.  Quite a complex piece you have wrought here!  

My favorite lines, by far, were:

However, Love, you I cannot hate,
For you are also the singing blade
Of the sword of my life’s melody...


Exquisite -- what a comeback!  

--Kess


 Full fathom five thy father lies,
Of his bones are coral made,
Those are pearls that were his eyes;
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange...


--William Shakespeare, from The Tempest


Munda
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3 posted 2000-01-28 08:34 PM


Thank you Denise. Always a pleasure to see you  

Kess..... ....now see what you did to me....I'm blushing all over from such a compliment ! (and that on my age   )
Thank you Kess.  

[This message has been edited by Munda (edited 01-28-2000).]

Poertree
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4 posted 2000-01-29 04:35 PM


I guess Munda from what I've learned about personification in the last few weeks that this is one great poem and spot on the subject of the workshop, no wonder teacher liked it ....

I do too, a lot  

Philip

jbouder
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5 posted 2000-01-30 08:38 AM


Munda:

I liked the first one too (and thought it was a fine example of personification) but now you go and slip another good one in to show everyone else up!  Are you trying to supplant me as teacher's pet or what?    Good job, Munda.

Jim

Not A Poet
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6 posted 2000-01-31 12:24 PM


Munda, what would it take to get you to come over and sit by me? I might look at you papers a little but I promise not to outright copy. Well, maybe a little. Yeah I can see why teacher liked this one. It's really loaded up with personification. And I like the couplet format too.



 Pete

What terms shall I find sufficiently simple in their sublimity --
sufficiently sublime in their simplicity --
for the mere enunciation of my theme?
Edgar Allan Poe



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