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JP
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since 1999-05-25

Posts 1343
Loomis, CA

0 posted 2000-06-21 12:36 PM

He sits quietly,
sickly glow of monitor,
casting face in death's radiance,
wondering how he will survive.
Her death was well deserved
and long time in coming,
evil demon of lust and greed,
who passing from this coil,
will give life to this heart.
He places fingers on keys,
to begin his life anew,
painting portraits in rhyme,
sculpting statues in prose.
the very life's blood again,
that once made him a man,
but which she stole violently.
He taps the squares of the muse,
watching verse flow before him,
feeling the power of creation,
in his abiltiy to pen joy.
Somewhere, in labrynth of thought,
he senses her soul stir,
the soul of doubt and fear,
the soul of the mute, the numb.
He feels her seethe deep,
weak, not quite as dead,
as he had prayed for.
He races with poem,
trying to put down each line,
'cause he understands,
with the certainty of the dead,
that she will come back to him.
for like sorrow, and the misty ocean,
all things shall return.

Ex nihilo nihil fit
JP

Yesterday is ash, tomorrow is smoke; only today does the fire burn.
JP

"Everything is your own damn fault, if you are any good." E. Hemmingway

Poet deVine

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-05-26

Posts 22612
Hurricane Alley

1 posted 2000-06-24 05:49 PM

This is marvelous!

Janet Marie
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since 2000-01-22

Posts 18554

2 posted 2000-06-24 08:16 PM

WOW
this is excellent
haunting and gripping
perfect emotional expression and imagery
dark edged and deep
great work
take care
jm

JP
Senior Member

since 1999-05-25

Posts 1343
Loomis, CA

3 posted 2000-06-27 01:43 PM

Nothingness begats nothing.  A poem based on the loss of a love that never was, reflects the reality of a pain that never existed.

Hey wait... I started to make a reply and now I think I've started a new poem!  Be back in a second.....

P.S. IDNVFT (I Did Not Vote For This)

Yesterday is ash, tomorrow is smoke; only today does the fire burn.
JP

"Everything is your own damn fault, if you are any good." E. Hemmingway

doreen peri
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since 1999-05-25

Posts 3812
Virginia

4 posted 2000-06-27 06:11 PM

nothingness begats nothingness indeed!! yep...

well done, jp... this one's got a bite to it!

*vote*

Sunshine

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Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

5 posted 2000-06-27 09:36 PM

Oohhh, everyone tells me to stay away from poets like you...too good...

Sunny

~~~Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Helen Keller ~~~

When you want to be loved, look within...KRJ

Marge Tindal

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since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

6 posted 2000-06-27 10:09 PM

JP~
Like this one very much.
~*Marge*~

~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
noles1@totcon.com

Nicole
Senior Member

since 1999-06-23

Posts 1835
Florida

7 posted 2000-07-10 07:14 PM

wow!

doreen said it right, thisn's got a bite to it.

vote!

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