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JP
Senior Member

since 1999-05-25

Posts 1343
Loomis, CA

0 posted 2002-07-02 09:56 PM

An ache beneath your words
a pain that underlies
the happy face you show
and the cheerful smile lies

You touch our hearts today
you stroke our souls
you wrench our hope away
to thrust upon winter's coals

Flames ensnare your heart
but never leave ash
the smoke of nothingness
the stench of emoliated dreams

Pity you for pity's sake
yet praise you to your face
touch your spirit vicariously
through your tortured scribblings

Bask in the glory of anonymity
cursing yourself all the while
for desiring the fame
that befalls all around you

Cut deep the veins thought
spilling its inky lifeblood
upon eternity's parchment
and cry havoc in your soul.

Poet deVine

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-05-26

Posts 22612
Hurricane Alley

1 posted 2002-07-02 10:47 PM

Cut deep the veins thought
spilling its inky lifeblood
upon eternity's parchment
and cry havoc in your soul.

While the whole poem aches, this last verse really speaks to me. Are we spilling our words into the eternity? Or just until the next forum is archived?

bsquirrel

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

2 posted 2002-07-03 06:52 PM

Ouch. Enjoyed. Reminds me of something Robert Smith might write an' sing.

These smiling eyes are just a mirror for the sun.
-RHCP

serenity blaze
Member Empyrean

since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

3 posted 2002-07-03 11:00 PM

you always make me type..."hmmmm...."

and then I always think..."Oh, YEAH."

Enjoyed, as always, ya leave me in thought, JP.

JP
Senior Member

since 1999-05-25

Posts 1343
Loomis, CA

4 posted 2002-07-05 09:17 PM

I think I am going to put this in the Open Forum. Take a chance on exposing myself to strangers and not just my friends

Yesterday is ash, tomorrow is smoke; only today does the fire burn.
Nil Desperandum, Fata viem invenient

Poet deVine

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-05-26

Posts 22612
Hurricane Alley

5 posted 2002-07-05 09:44 PM

Let's hope no one thinks this is a double post.....I'm glad to see you venturing out. you know friends are just strangers you haven't met yet....

S Arthur Grey
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since 2001-03-19

Posts 719
woven by a poet's loom

6 posted 2002-07-05 11:33 PM

Sometimes hard to know who is friend or stranger. Cry havoc in anyway.

S Arthur

. . . Hills jump with brooks.
trees tumble out of twigs and sticks;
e e cummings

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