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Pericles' Bane
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Pericles' Bane |
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PoeticKnight Senior Member
since 2000-01-20
Posts 1144New Orleans, LA |
Fleeting is the fortunate, fanciful fame Wake not where from wistful, wondrous dreams Pursued perchance by perfectly popular shame Transcended most torturous tasks and themes Now some nine and twenty nights of your name To scale the serpentine paths of scandalous signs And move the mountains of monsters and men That deities deem disposable pawns by design To therefore rise in totality against them Singing songs of symbolic surrendering time Behold the beginnings of bright and beautiful fame For in those feelings first, and foremost Lies a love of life that lays no blame And a chanting chorus you come to compose A song for heroic hearts to heal half the shame (An actual new one...in an alliteration phase *S*) |
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Denise
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
Wonderful poem, JML! I love the alliteration also! Denise |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
Fleeting is the fortunate, fanciful fame Wake not where from wistful, wondrous dreams Pursued perchance by perfectly popular shame Transcended most torturous tasks and themes Now some nine and twenty nights of your name -------------- Behold the beginnings of bright and beautiful fame For in those feelings first, and foremost Lies a love of life that lays no blame And a chanting chorus you come to compose A song for heroic hearts to heal half the shame -------------- I dig all your phases  I really dig this deep poem... oh to walk barefoot in that mind of yours... where does one find THIS kind of inspiration...and depth. very cool poem jer...dont they call this "head rhyme" too.*S* so tell me...WHERE did you write THIS one? (smile)...BIG SMILE LOL stalking you with a visual LOL your jm ********* An armour, friends! I pray you, let me see it. Thanks, fortune, yet, that, after all my crosses, Thou givest me somewhat to repair myself; And though it was mine own, part of my heritage, Which my dead father did bequeath to me. With this strict charge, even as he left his life, 'Keep it, my Pericles; it hath been a shield Twixt me and death;'--and pointed to this brace;-- 'For that it saved me, keep it; in like necessity-- The which the gods protect thee from!--may defend thee.' ****** "The men who died were not all heroes, but by their death they have made up for shortcomings. I know that for love of Athens they were glad to do so. They were all alike, swept away from a world filled for their dying eyes not with terror, but with glory." - Pericles |
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Meadowmuse Member Elite
since 1999-12-27
Posts 3263 |
Enjoyed your alliterative verses...very well writ! ~ Claire |
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Lone Wolf Member Ascendant
since 2000-03-16
Posts 5842Lansing, MI USA |
JML, This is excellent, JML. Nice job!!! Love that alliteration!!!  Friends are friend forever if the Lord's the Lord of them and a friend will not say never cause the welcome will not end. --Michael W. Smith |
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