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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 |
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Temptress
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-06-15
Posts 7136Mobile, AL |
tsk tsk..Someone let something excellent slip away to page 2. I loved this, every word! |
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Lady Ollyne Member
since 2001-01-08
Posts 337East Coast |
'twas on page one of mine about to respond was I your words and style intrigue me so this lady bows graciously to thine. Lady Ollyne "O, learn to read what silent love hath writ: To hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit"...Shakespeare [This message has been edited by Lady Ollyne (edited 02-13-2001).] |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
This IS artfully written...and, as always PK...your work reads beautifully ALOUD...loved the alliteration in the second verse too...Excellent writing! |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
This is very intense....powerful....and elicits a "wow".... |
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PoeticKnight Senior Member
since 2000-01-20
Posts 1144New Orleans, LA |
Thanks for rescuing this from the dreaded page 2. LOL |
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