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Local Rebel
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0 posted 2000-09-05 05:35 PM


She feeds neon seasons
surf of roses
swelling into leaves
piled into sneering eons
of  no end seen

summer shapes shifting in
tidal beaches' tender
the sense of eros
essenced in droning
waves of crisp tomorrow chill

red dress gleaming
reef adorned
adored
a door

the season of dreams
melting summer's last rites
past penchants
pining in

neon
falling

the fall wind
winding each glimmer
of yesterday sodden
with noon's sun

she falls to him
in the deafening fade
a blanket of eros

erasing
easing; ending fear
safe

soon

she is the door
the season
the seed
the oases freed



[This message has been edited by Local Rebel (edited 09-05-2000).]

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Kit McCallum
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1 posted 2000-09-05 06:09 PM


Wow! Powerfully written Local Rebel! I really enjoyed the flow in this ... very nicely penned!  

Best wishes,
/Kit

Meadowmuse
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2 posted 2000-09-05 06:20 PM


Just one question, if you please. How much do you charge for free verse lessons?  

In earnest, though, I admire your ability to do this so well. The scene literally comes alive within your words.

~ Claire

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?......Henry David Thoreau



X Angel
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3 posted 2000-09-05 06:33 PM


ahhh she is the season.....*big sigh* this was beautiful..
~Heather

LngJhnAg
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4 posted 2000-09-05 07:02 PM


Hawk - You are indeed deep, and talentede.  This is great free verse.  *snapping fingers here*
doreen peri
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5 posted 2000-09-05 08:14 PM


this is awesome! almost anagramatic... (is that a word? hehe) some awed muse you must have! wow!!! i absolutely find this piece very very special... thank you... for sharing this  

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Martie
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6 posted 2000-09-05 09:18 PM


Rebel--I don't have the right words so I'll just say...WOW!
Balladeer
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7 posted 2000-09-05 10:36 PM


talent that needs to be admired....so I do  
Good work, reb..

passing shadows
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8 posted 2000-09-06 12:11 PM


what a way you have! i'm in awe
Local Rebel
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9 posted 2000-09-06 10:01 AM


Thankyou one and all...

And Claire... I suppose free verse lessons should be free.. so here goes f course anything I say is purely my opinion and technique.  Whatever works for you and everyone else obviously works well.

I start out with my main theme -- in this piece: People come into our lives and go out of our lives like seasons.  Then I examine the metaphor I've chosen--here -- seasons, and anthropomorphise it by calling the season fall she.  It is a layering technique though because she represents also a literal she, and I metaphorize her by describing her as fall.  But she also represents all she's.  Next, I encrypt the layers by using words that are not obvious -- what makes free verse poetry-- to me-- and not prose -- is the use of uncommon language and the encryption of words... in this case Fall/She both become, the neon season. Neon is such a powerful word and automatically conveys -- brilliance, color, vibrant, flashing imagery, and excitment... but She/Fall also are represented by Door, and Oases.... the passage of one season to another, the Oases of the Summer.. the coolness and shade after a long period of dry and heat --that's how I multi-layer and how I free verse.

One other technique I use sometimes -- but not always is to anagram a phrase that captures the thought I want to express -- sometimes I'll use the phrase in the text -- sometimes not.  In this case I didn't.  After I anagram the phrase I'll pick and choose words and arrange them like magnetic poetry and leave myself the liberty of inserting any word I need as filler to complete an idea.  The anagramatical effect results in wonderful alliteration and similar sounding, similar looking, words that don't necessarily,  but could rhyme...

So there ya go... free advice is always worth what you pay for it!! LoL..

Thanks again for the read all!!  



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