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Just A Myth
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Just A Myth |
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Honeybee Member Ascendant
since 1999-12-26
Posts 5372Ontario, CANADA 
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*revised from way back* Just A Myth  Once upon a time rarely ends as happily ever after and if you wear glass slippers, they will crack then shatter, A prince cannot kiss the sleep away from a beautiful princess fantasia brooms do not sweep away yesterday's mess, shooting stars can't deliver hopes to heaven in the night and poison of the heart always kills Snow White, there never was a man in the moon smiling down, joy does not live behind the painted mask of a clown, he loves me, he loves me not seems to win over and over again mystic Mr. Sandman has never been your friend, with a flash of a lightning bolt - Hercules won't save the day eternal youth is just a story, Rapunzel's hair eventually turns to tattered grey, thorns refuse to vanish and roses cannot bloom all year long if you believe that God creates soulmates - then you've got it all wrong for, love cannot survive - even Romeo and Juliet perished there is no genie in a bottle granting wish after wish  fairytales are cruel jokes on innocent children to pass the time even poetry's ink can be bled dry of it's rhyme, hate to burst your bubble - but, your fairy Godmother doesn't care and angels don't fly on honey clouds, instead their wings fray in polluted air, there is no castle in the distance waiting for Cinderella even the Chesire cat fails to grin forever his nine lives are cut off with his head by the evil queen and the toothfairy leaves counterfeit cash while you're lost in a dream there is no love potion #9 that can cast a magical spell at eternity's cease, the garden of Eden will never replace hell at the end of a rainbow there is no pot of gold or leprechauns bestowing great wisdom hardly ever told, money doesn't grow on trees just because you're broke leave a memory lost at sea and it will drown by choke, maps to paradise never wash upon the shore crazy glue could not put Humpty Dumpty back together once more  when your heart breaks and your soul aches all of the chocolate in the world cannot hold back the tears your knight in shining armour is at the stripbar drinking a case of beer not riding 'pon a white horse to carry you off into the sunset gold rings eventually tarnish and elephants do forget! wedding gowns will yellow and fade promises are rarely kept, let alone made romance is not a scripted movie awards are never given for free, destiny, fate and kismet are all a bunch of bull the cup of life is half empty, never half full Saint Valentine and Cupid do not exist... lasting love is just a myth By Melissa P. Monette |
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catalinamoon
since 2000-06-03
Posts 9543The Shores of Alone |
But..But..you can't take away ALL of the fantasies here. How about we at least let prince charming go forth to save. Please? Intense and depressing Melissa. Whew! Sandra |
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athena4 Senior Member
since 2000-12-10
Posts 622 |
Melissa, WOW! You have cut the heart out of the fairytale! But, for us "Disney" dreamers, we need that slice of reality to make us see that the "fairytale" is just that. But sadly still, we believe in the "Prince" that we SO want to exist. I hope you will find yours, Melissa, he HAS to be out there somewhere still. Don't stop dreaming.... Elise |
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rwood Member Elite
since 2000-02-29
Posts 3793Tennessee |
True, many things are half truth, half fiction in most of our whimsies of life. But to even know one part of something beautiful adds to us as a person. I know I'm a better person to have known love, to have given it, and to be able to accept it. This will forever last as it is part of what makes up all of me. It differs with everyone I know. But I hope it will not remain a myth to you. Very provoking read. Thank you! Sincerely, Regina |
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Balladeer
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
Ah, Melissa, you're myth-ing the point! Reality is for those who can't face fantasy. Dreamers view life as a comedy...realists view it as a tragedy. The reality? We are born....we die. We need the belief in our fantasies to make the time in between enjoyable and if our mind believes they can come true.....sometimes they do. At worst, we lived with the hope they might have...not such a bad deal  The poem is very well done  |
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Marge Tindal
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Melissa~ I'm so glad you're a poet ! ! You've got a unique way of 'splaining things~ *Hugs* ~*Marge*~ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ |
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Sheilan Member
since 2000-02-29
Posts 50Snohomish, WA |
hate to burst your bubble - but, your fairy Godmother doesn't care...  Omigawd I am dyin' here....I know only too well the disappointment and heartbreak that leads to similar anger and ummmm... "pessimism". I hope whatever led you to the demise of all things fantastical will allow you to live again soon. |
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Dee Member Elite
since 2000-08-19
Posts 2330Queensland, Australia |
Melissa, you have shattered my dreams here! I thought all that was true....especially about the knight on the white charger. Oh well I guess I'll have to make do with what I've got. Nice work though. Dee I wish you every happiness and may you always have the best of the good things in life. a brand |
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Sven
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA |
I remember this one my friend. . . no one writes heartbreak like you. . . but, don't give up on the dreams just yet. . . they have a way of sneaking up on you. . .  ------------------------------------------------------------ To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world. |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
Melissa, If what you say is truth today Than I must let my Randy go. For he's my mount to find my way And without him I will never know. A wonderful write. Sy |
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Honeybee Member Ascendant
since 1999-12-26
Posts 5372Ontario, CANADA |
Thank you all for your replies  But, don't worry!!! I still believe in happy endings, in soulmates and in angels, I just wrote this when I was feeling sorry for myself~ |
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JLR Senior Member
since 2001-02-04
Posts 1785 |
...and I thought I had a bad day! Glad this is from the past, well done as it was. |
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kaile
since 2000-02-06
Posts 5146singapore |
melissa, i very much enjoyed the read. i like the way you revolve your poem around this refreshing take on fairy tales and their fantasies... i love the line about the knight in a strip bar most...what an image!! |
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ShannonM Member
since 2001-07-28
Posts 104Drifitng |
Excellent. I tried something like this not too long ago, but it was very sparse. This is nice and full...and describes my feelings exactly. I wish things were otherwise. Good job! ShannonM |
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Irish Rose Member Patricius
since 2000-04-06
Posts 10263 |
but the poets NEVER run out of rhyme, not ever......I still believe that. " I walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be" George William Curtis" |
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7 Member
since 2000-04-26
Posts 113Amherst, MA, USA |
Aw... There are times when I see the world this way. It's so very Earthly. I think I only feel this when people tell me to. Because when I was a little girl I said "I'm a princess!" and my mom said "No, you're a middle-class American living in a suburb of Boston, where we don't have kings and queens and princesses. Maybe someday you can try and be the president." When I said "Look, a fairy dancing on a leaf!" my dad said "No, that's an insect. But that's very cute, it kind of looks like a fairy." Not that I'm disputing your poem because I've written things that I actually completely disagree with, so you actually might see the world the same as I do these days, but really I can't bear to read a poem like that because it hurts, it reminds me of when I didn't believe. But it's beautiful, in a painful way. |
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MARK V SHELDON Member Elite
since 2001-06-21
Posts 3015In a corporeal internship... |
Bitter, much?? This was an EXTREMELY powerful "splattering of shattering", and I can understand such emotion when in Misery's bottom, but it still makes me vehemently unsheath my sword and defiantly ask, "Oh YEAH?!" Well done, Melissa -- just maybe it deserves a header or disclaimer before the read for us "dreamers" who prefer to see "the other side of things"... (I'm glad to hear this was in your past... WHEW! :-) ) -MVS "When you tell the Truth, you never have to remember what you just said." |
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walker Member Elite
since 2001-02-11
Posts 2240Florida |
Many truths here, Disney is fake. Love is a lot of work and it does arrive one day. Am glad this was written a while back. Great poem. |
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Honeybee Member Ascendant
since 1999-12-26
Posts 5372Ontario, CANADA |
Thank you all for your 'interesting' and great replies  I'm an optimist, honestly! This is just something that I had to write~ |
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