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mystic requiem
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since 2001-01-26

Posts 144

0 posted 2001-02-28 08:53 AM

The Sands may whisper forgotten secrets,
When you incline your heart to hear.
And stone idols can offer faded wisdom,
If your spirit will simply listen.

Do they speak of worn desirous dreams,
The kind woven in bed's of great desire,
Of nobel Pharaohs and peasants alike?
For life is no respecter of persons.

Their song along a night's ancient breeze
May echo primitive universal mysteries.
In ages past, of war's tumbling upon time,
Mocking the fallen warriors from battle.

They wear an undeciphered expression
Captured in a relentless half smile of rock.
Which entices the saturated greedy heart,
Offering only dust within barren tombs.

Or is that what we wish to hear and see,
Presuming upon our egos to translate?
When in simple reality they are merely
Repeating the rhymes of children's play.

Mystic Requiem

Painting by Elihu Vedder 'Listening to the Spinx'

[This message has been edited by mystic requiem (edited 02-28-2001).]

ma miller
Senior Member

since 2000-07-11

Posts 806

1 posted 2001-02-28 09:07 AM

mystic requiem,

this looks familiar (maybe you posted it on another board?) ... i liked it then and i like it now ... it works ... well done.

mystic requiem
Member

since 2001-01-26

Posts 144

2 posted 2001-02-28 10:47 AM

Ma Miller...thank for enjoying this piece.
It has become one of my favorite.
I feel your work is wonderful as well.

Perhaps this piece seems familiar because you
read it in my own Dark Labyrinth on Tapestries.
Probably before you deleted your one poem
you posted and never explained why.

mYsTiC

Swamp¤Faeryie
Member

since 2000-12-04

Posts 393
fairyland....of course;)

3 posted 2001-02-28 04:17 PM

"And stone idols can offer faded wisdom,"
That line was SO great!! That one line really,wow!!!!!!!! The whole thing was incredible,i'm keeping this!!!!!WOW!! :!

mystic requiem
Member

since 2001-01-26

Posts 144

4 posted 2001-03-03 07:52 PM

Swamp¤Faeryie:
Thank you so much for that fantastic reply.
Your enjoyment is the prize for me!
*S*

mYsTiC

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