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Master
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0 posted 2001-07-27 01:47 PM


Look at the sunrays, people!
Those are her fingers,
veering.
I am almost ready to leap now
toward her from the roof of my building.

Look how the sun is crashing
on the blade of the glowing horizon!
People,
I am stoned by this passion,
I am lost in light of her eyes now!

On the fork of a thousand roads,
drunk with the smell of the pines,
I wander
and hang my sorrowful notes
on the nerves of the telephone lines.

Hello?
Answer me!
Anybody?
What can extinguish my love’s scorching flame?
Every night, waiting for her, I cram my body
into the window frame.

You, who’ve had a lot to cope with,
whose lives have long turned sour and dire,
know that
the doors of my ribcage are always open,
come and sit by the fire!

Do you hear the thunder of my whisper?
That is my soul
on the stage of my tongue.
People,
I need her, I miss her!
In her absence, my body is wrung...

I crawl up the stairs, demented,
and beheaded,
I fall on the bed...
Tell me why? I don’t understand it!
Why was my heart cast of lead?

These walls box me in.
Feeling lonely,
like a snake, on the mattress, I coil  
and depression collapses upon me
like six feet of the graveyard soil.

Burdened by the weight of the silence,
I recall from the past,
gasping,
and abruptly, two overcast eyelids
shut at once with a bang of a casket.

But even in dreams, her vision,
appears in the night and remains...
and gently,
her brief apparition,
I catch with the net of my veins.

And this bliss seems to be unending,
but the night and the dream must cease.
She is grinning at me,
enchanting,
as she vanishes into the mist...

The gray beard of the mist fills the alley,
raindrops drum on the bong
of my window.
Autumn mimics my sweet melancholy
and transforms itself into winter.

Homeless winds sing from under the bridges,
as the morning embraces the land.
There, I ramble,
feeding the pigeons  
out of the palm of my hand...

Once more, I am one with the landscape.
Like the valley, I’m covered with frost.
Like the shivering branches, my hands shake
Like the trees,
I am standing exposed.

Have you noticed your son, Mother Nature?
In you sight, I still wander perplexed.
Separated from love,
I am raging,
Is it true that the spring will come next?

Dejected, I’ve looked high and low,
tread the Milky Way, searching for answers,
lost my way in the whirlpools of snow,
now, I stray here,
homeless and senseless.

Here, I drift with the winds as I cast
my eyes to the skies,
starless and bottomless,
I can change! Let me sweep the debris of the past
under the carpets of puddles.

Hey, up there! Do you hear me?!
You, angels, hovering up above me,
do not lie to me,
tell me sincerely,
could she possibly learn to love me?

[This message has been edited by Master (edited 07-29-2001).]

© Copyright 2001 Andrey Kneller - All Rights Reserved
chasing rain
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1 posted 2001-07-27 01:50 PM


WHOA...you use such beautiful personifications here, and your imagery is wonderful. I like the part about the tongue being a stage, or something like that. THAT was original. Thank you for a wonderful read!  

-Leah

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2 posted 2001-07-27 01:58 PM


This was so cool, keep it up Master.
I liked this one a lot!

~Jeff~

Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God, how I love it.
- General George Patton

Ina
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3 posted 2001-07-27 02:05 PM


this was amazing work. I loved it.
full of imagery that was very poignant.
REgina

Kevin
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4 posted 2001-07-27 03:19 PM


I love how this ends bro...
snaps you out of the trance it puts you in
awesome work here

good to see your style agian

Spice
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5 posted 2001-07-27 06:39 PM


The Master is back!  
I LOVE your writing. I've missed seeing it so much. Finally! Another post! HeHe
Wow to this one! Yet another masterful write. I know exactly how you feel. The description was wonderful, the imagery. Just absolutely superb work here. MORE I say! More!

[This message has been edited by Spice (edited 07-27-2001).]

Master
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6 posted 2001-07-28 10:21 PM


Thank you all! Glad you liked it!
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7 posted 2001-07-29 02:44 AM


I REALLY REALLY enjoyed this! Awesome job! This was just a piece of superbness! I really loved it!

I was born myself, raised myself, and will continue to be myself. The world will just have to adjust.

Somewhere out there a cow is laughing at you

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8 posted 2001-08-03 10:14 PM


I really like this, Master... such BEAUTIFUL examples here of personification.  Quite long, but well worth the read.  I LOVED the second stanza.. Very nicely done.. I enjoyed this very mcuh.

--Marie

You think yourself a failure, but perhaps the biggest loss is winning.

bOoGaSuGa
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9 posted 2001-08-03 10:36 PM


that was a good poem
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10 posted 2001-08-09 01:48 PM


This poem was so full of energy, for such a topic.  How unusual.  And how delightfully surprising to read.  
You did a wonderful job of line breaking in this piece, deciding where a line should begin and end.  It flowed marvelously and I still picked it all up.
I like the imagery you used here, it was very vast.  I had a strange image in my mind of you standing atop something and screaming the poem out.  Wonderfully profound writing here.  I'm sure this also had something to do with the punctuation you used.  
Nice to be reading yours again, Master.  Perhaps I'll post one of my latest someday soon, as well.
Until next,
~Allan

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