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Seymour Tabin
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0 posted 2001-03-06 09:10 AM


Buddha’s ashes

The spitting cobra spits to blind
Injects its fangs, venoms the mind.
Piercing the shell like nettles from hell
And goes by the name of Jezebel.

Covering the Buddha with ash on the fly
Dimming the sun with shadows of sigh
Constricting the flow of beauties sweet dew
Pushed the abyss by the words of a shrew.

She gathers her poison holds it like chyme
Webbing each drop in the patterns of time.
Testing the spittle little by little
Sinking her fangs in final committal.

She’s the ice in the wind the burn in the fire
The knot in garrote that throttles, the choir
The sweetness of heaven the bleakness of hell
The pulls in the quick sand the wish in the well.

The Buddha withers the gash of the gnash
And sits head bowed in the wash of the ash.


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Sunshine
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1 posted 2001-03-06 09:12 AM


You show me well who I shall never be....
ethome
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2 posted 2001-03-06 09:20 AM


Hey Seymour you're not sacrificing anything at home are you? I just can't see myself coming over if the food on the barbecue is going to be strangled....whoa!! I have never read such a condemnation done so intensely...great work my friend!!

The poet is like a cocoon; in him the caterpillar of the past finds rest, and from him the butterfly of the future emerges.

Janet Marie
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3 posted 2001-03-06 02:44 PM


Piercing the shell like nettles from hell
And goes by the name of Jezebel.

Covering the Buddha with ash on the fly
Dimming the sun with shadows of sigh
=======================
She gathers her poison holds it like chyme
Webbing each drop in the patterns of time.
Testing the spittle little by little
Sinking her fangs in final committal.

She’s the ice in the wind the burn in the fire
The knot in garrote that throttles, the choir
The sweetness of heaven the bleakness of hell
The pulls in the quick sand the wish in the well.

The Buddha withers the gash of the gnash
And sits head bowed in the wash of the ash.
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My goodness Sy-babes...
me thinks Randy has heartburn or needs a weekend pass *L*
So many cool lines in this gift of inner rhyme

"Testing the spittle little by little
Sinking her fangs in final committal."


and so many awesome images ...

"She’s the ice in the wind the burn in the fire
The knot in garrote that throttles, the choir
The sweetness of heaven the bleakness of hell
The pulls in the quick sand the wish in the well."

that verse there is so poetically perfect
it stands on its own.

but its the intensity of the flow and words that is so way cool ...
I need new adjectives to define your work Stinky..
cause I am wearing out...cool,clever,unique...
excellent me sweet ...
once again a lesson in poetry and wisdom done cool
*winkiewinkie*
me


Some find subtlety in strangers
some find subtlety alone
Your eyes,you see everything
my eyes,I see its all together now
and I know.
~candlebox~

JamesMichael
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4 posted 2001-03-06 03:59 PM


A joy to read...James
Seymour Tabin
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5 posted 2001-03-06 04:18 PM


Sunshine,
You never was and never could. *L*

Ethome,
Thank you so much for the laugh and clever comment.

JM,
You always save me when I'm going down for the third time on the third page. LOL
Love Ya sweety, WW Stinky

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