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Open Poetry #8

the wax flower burns

bsquirrel

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

0 posted 2000-07-29 03:59 PM

"The rose held its clouded head
Far out of the solution.
She breathed the colors she knew as a child,
And died."
-eulogy

Suspended in a vinaigrette
Of jelly, oil, semen & spit.
Her preserved beauty stained, swelled;
Her waxen image softened away.
Her leaves went, unattached,
To the surface like silent mouths.
The acid of semens burned her stem
To roughened, lineless points.
Little bubbles at her head,
Blossom's willed rot at the top.
Bright curly-cues against the jar's side.
Gently falling apart.

The wax flower -- oh, she burns so pretty.
Rainbow bubbles in a jar.
Disappearing breaths in its waste:
Who you finally are.

brian madden
Member Elite

since 2000-05-06

Posts 4374
ireland

1 posted 2000-07-29 05:29 PM

bsquirrel, powerful images loved the poem. a unique read.

"A frog, it cannot comprehend the sea Nor me happiness" Paul Draper-Mansun

bsquirrel

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

2 posted 2000-07-30 01:47 AM

Brian,
Thanks. This is based on a different co-worker. People are insane. Passions

Mike

MMoonchild
Senior Member

since 2000-07-13

Posts 1715
PA

3 posted 2000-07-30 09:05 AM

darn Mike......I wasn't sure I was going to like this but have read it 4 times already...
and that means something...*w

The wax flower -- oh, she burns so pretty.
Rainbow bubbles in a jar.
Disappearing breaths in its waste
Who you finally are.

wonderful.....
~~softly
Maureen

*wish my mind thought like that

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