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PoeticKnight
Senior Member

since 2000-01-20

Posts 1144
New Orleans, LA

0 posted 2001-03-21 05:59 PM

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

Sven

Member Laureate

since 1999-11-23

Posts 14937
East Lansing, MI USA

1 posted 2001-03-21 06:37 PM

ah yes. . . a story well told PK. . .

excellent. . .

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Janet Marie
Member Laureate

since 2000-01-22

Posts 18554

2 posted 2001-03-21 06:56 PM

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
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careful poet sir...your talent is showing

astonishing astute alliteration *L*

"The men who died were not all heroes, but by their death they have made up for shortcomings. I know that for love of Athens they were glad to do so. They were all alike, swept away from a world filled for their dying eyes not with terror, but with glory." - Pericles

oh you speak to me in riddles
and you speak to me in rhymes
my body aches to breathe your breath
your words keep me alive
~Sarah McLachlan~

PoeticKnight
Senior Member

since 2000-01-20

Posts 1144
New Orleans, LA

3 posted 2001-03-22 08:44 AM

Ahh...thanks Sven and Janet, thanks for the quote, I'm glad you liked my little alliteration. *L*

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