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Honeybee Member Ascendant
since 1999-12-26
Posts 5372Ontario, CANADA 
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$ Superstar $ Hollywood lights flash your name as you walk down the red carpet playing this superficial game, you're a god, you're a hunk, you're a superstar, you escaped from a broken-down town, you've come so far, you're a talented spirit, but, your personality leaves much to desire, blind, in search of attention, you throw your conscience into the fire, teenage girls worship you with posters plastered all over their room, you're so high, so free, yet, this glamour holds you within it's deceptive tomb, you're the epitome of "sex, drugs and rock n' roll," indulging in your right to fame while the devil controls your soul, Mr. high and mighty, you refuse to leave your hotel suite for less than fifty thousand a day, you're close enough to royalty in their eyes, you always get your way, you selfish puppet, all of this fortune does nothing for your character as you head down a crooked avenue, adorned with gold chains, diamond cufflings and immoral fur, Mr. cocky, you do your charity for the day - signing an autograph or two you're better than they are you scowl, "how lucky they are to have met a somebody like you," when fame is concerned, love doesn't matter, you've had two-hundred groupie's in your bed for false moments of thrills to calm the demons in your head, you've seduced them all, put thunder in their screams feeding the restless hunger - your jaded dreams, you've conquered the world, take a bow, you're a king! but, when life is stale, money, limosines and power don't mean a thing, you stand proudly upon that pedestal, yet, emptiness still remains, in haunting reminder, you hear the thin blood pulse through your veins, you hold your Oscar with arrogance, proclaiming into the microphone that you're hear to stay! but, fame is only written in ice, eventually the sun melts it away, you ignore the golden rule, just because you know you can, it's justified, you're superstar, afterall! the rise to popularity is fast, but, so is the fall, alone, you sit, trying to calm the demons in your head, you die forgotten, a has-been, stardom is dead *By Melissa Honeybee* The beauty of poetry gives my soul wings to fly free within dreams ~Melissa P. Monette~ [This message has been edited by Melissa Honeybee (edited 02-13-2001).] |
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Sunnyone Member Ascendant
since 2000-07-06
Posts 5334Staffordshire, England |
This deserves a very big WOW!!!!!!!! Tremendous write here, my friend, and even though I can't fathom what $50grand a night would feel like, (I wish), I can imagine that even that gets lonely and very old. You never would know who your friends really are. Wonderful job here.....  Live...Love...Be grateful for both!! |
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Marge Tindal 
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Melissa~ I think we've all known one or two of these ! But .... we keep on idolizing them ... it's no wonder they start to idolize themselves. *SuperStar* of a write. *Hugs* ~*Marge*~ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ [email protected] |
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Secret Whisper Member
since 2001-01-25
Posts 298Through the Looking Glass |
Highly impressive. You capture the "fame" attitude so well. Wonderful. What a unique perspective on stardom. ~Alison~ "Close your eyes, and you'll see. Cover your ears, and you'll hear." |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
The title reminded me of an old Carpenters' tune (yes, I know... I'm showing my age *G*) of the same name. It started "Long ago and oh so far away, I fell in love with you before the second show." So much is given unasked-for, making it harder to blame those who come to expect everything as their due... yet still we (the societal we, not the royal we *G*) end up hating the attitude we helped create. Excellent write! |
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Sven
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA |
excellent Melissa. . . you have that way of getting into the heart of the subject. . . this is no exception. . . superb. . .  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world. |
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Nate Dogg Senior Member
since 1999-11-15
Posts 1658Georgia, Fulton |
Damn Melissa, you beat me to the topic(smiling).....this is definitely somthing I would write about but I don't think I could have expresses more clearer than you what you did....great writing! Nathan |
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