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Secret Whisper
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Through the Looking Glass

0 posted 2001-05-16 06:46 PM


Angel Eyes


What beautiful eyes you have?
To enchant, entrance, beguile.
A snare to the feet of guard-low maids.
Smiling and giggling all the while.

Dreaming of all those carefree days.
Meandering through rosy thoughts of happenstance.
Fooled by your charm-mans ways.
Falling from your comely trials.

Not knowing of the foolish chance.
You sly-minded devil in disguise.
Too enraptured in your seductive trance.
To look through your angel eyes.

Poor, poor maids, who fall without a challenge.
Disappoint our young Adonis.
Who seeks for the swooning lies,
To lose a girl her balance.

His trickery ne'er dare been upheaved,
By some sly-mouthed blue-eyed maiden.
Until upon me he happened to see,
What it is to be so jaded.

"What I was living, the same am I now, dead." --Capaneus, THE INFERNO

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Poet deVine
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Hurricane Alley
1 posted 2001-05-16 08:24 PM


I'm not so sure this is a happy ditty. I think the Adonis in your poem was a jerk... or did I completely misunderstand?  
Jamie
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2 posted 2001-05-16 08:31 PM


I think the happy part Sharon,, is at the end.. my take is that, "he gets his just deserts".. or am I wrong?---heh

There is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar.
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joycerogers
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3 posted 2001-05-16 08:38 PM


This poem is painted so beautifully.  I can identify with every word.  It was nice to go back for a few moments, but it sure feels good not be ensnared by those beautiful eyes.
Secret Whisper
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Through the Looking Glass
4 posted 2001-05-17 06:46 AM


Yep... Jamie is right. The amuzing part, and really the inspiration for this poem, is when the once arrogant, self-assured Adonis falls at the hands of a girl he tried to seduce. To me it really is a happy little ditty because I think of 'Much Ado About Nothing', and how it was all courting and love.

"What I was living, the same am I now, dead." --Capaneus, THE INFERNO

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