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Skyfyre Senior Member
since 1999-08-15
Posts 1906Sitting in Michael's Lap 
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The body tires, but mind will know no ease, And thoughts bemoan their flesh captivity, Like symptoms of intransigent disease, They rage, defiant, in the core of me. Unyielding blaze within this mortal frame, Volcanic, it demands a swift release -- Else risk the mount devoured by the flame -- Insomnia, the price to pay for peace. In versed assault, the questions siege my brain, While I, with half-formed words, prepare defense, And yearn in faith to simply go insane, To thus retreat from musing’s exigence. Yet, when the flag is claimed in victory, The wounds of war are bled in poetry. 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 |
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Alwye
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Member Elite
since 1999-06-16
Posts 3850In the space between moments |
Wow, extremely painful and powerful, Skyfyre. You have stunning talent and it definitely shows here.  *Krista Knutson* As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins. ~*Albert Schweitzer*~ |
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Jeffrey Carter
since 2000-04-08
Posts 2367State of constant confusion! |
WOW!! Very stunning. What talent you have. Jeffrey |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
this is PERFECTION. this just drips with your emotions. very good word choices, well written, as always. very. take care, jm Well the sun sets gently on your shoulders And it makes me want to touch you there. And the light in your eyes makes me feel Like there's something much better out there Something kind... And I know someday I might be looking around Trying to find some purpose Well purpose it can't be that hard to find As long as I've got the wind... The wind and your love to carry me. vertical horizon |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
Skyfyre, Good thoughts, good words, good poem. |
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Poet deVine
Administrator
Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
Marvelous!! I liked this a lot..... |
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Pepper Member Elite
since 1999-08-19
Posts 3079Southern Florida |
Another WOW .... This is awesome writing, Skyfyre "This is where you will win the battle .... in the playhouse of your mind." Maxwell Maltz |
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Sven
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA |
Excellent Kess!! "the mind will know no ease. . . " "the wounds of war are bled in poetry" Makes me think of Wilfred Owen, a British poet who was killed in WWI, and whose words bemoaning war were used by the English composer Benjamin Britten in his "War Requiem". . . he told of the horrors of war on the battlefield, you tell us of the horrors of war (the war in ourselves) in the mind. . . Superb!! ----------------------------------------------------------------- That which gives light must endure burning --Victor Frankl |
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Mike Member Elite
since 1999-06-19
Posts 2462 |
Exceptionally written and expressed. |
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Denise
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
Wonderful sonnet, Kess! Denise |
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Michael
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666California |
I've honestly never been a fan of "form" poetry, Kess, but let me just say you do it with style. In a war of jagged words, indeed, the wounds run deep. Excellence prevails once again. Michael |
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