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Wind
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0 posted 2003-10-01 07:35 PM



forgotten music,
still pounds in half closed eyes

no sleep tonight,
only
the cracked window
of lonely room.

Who will hide from the light?
Who will stand in the half-shadows of sleep?
I know a girl that tumbles into abyss each night,
one sheet covers her skin
but she gets colder every day.

parasomniac
with sweat-drenched thoughts--
awakens to the sound of the
alarm.
smoke sieves though a door,
locked in fear
of fear itself

I cannot
tell you what she dreamt,
only
the snow--
suffocating the crumbleing walls
doesn't want to be felt anymore

winter is not dieing
but metamorphosis,
the butterfly as
helpless
as the worm.

(ughh...Liz tries to be subtle. I try. so...help would be appreciated. heh...you know. so I can learn.)


And the angel said unto me, "These are the cries of the carrots, the cries of the carrots!"
-Tool

[This message has been edited by Wind (10-01-2003 08:40 PM).]

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Cpat Hair
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1 posted 2003-10-02 08:11 AM


Liz... help? as in what? This has some interesting images and the idea or central theme seems solid. I struggle a bit with all you are trying to say and with a bit of the mixed images used. Smoke and snow for example can be tied together, but the transition from one to the other here seems abrubt...without the connecting pieces or words.
Exactly what you want to convey is the main driver..and without the insight into your thoughts it is hard to say whether you were successful or not..

(chuckling) listing out brat behavior....
you are indeed a super brat!!


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2 posted 2003-10-02 01:14 PM


I'm with Ron. There's nothing to fix.
Wind
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3 posted 2003-10-02 03:26 PM


eh...the smoke and the snow are the same thing....I guess thats what you are asking? It does seem confusing but then again I wrote it pretty late at night. thos things allways seem different than they really are. The transformation it...its really kind of strange but the transformation has to do with the fear and sleep....like changing the way things are seen.

I suppose what I mean is this: when I was litlle I used to be afraid of the dark. I said that when I was bigger, I would overcome these fears and came out with more. the smoke is all imagination, or supposedly part of the nightmare. There were a few lines that I deleted that could have helped tie them together but I deleted them.
I like to make people guess. glad you guys enjoyed it though.

[This message has been edited by Wind (10-02-2003 03:31 PM).]

Aenimal
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4 posted 2003-10-02 08:19 PM


Liz you always keep us guessing..great write leave it alone
Kaoru
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5 posted 2003-10-03 02:34 AM


It's like, if you reach for the last cookie, I'll smack your hand..

Don't change it.

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6 posted 2003-10-03 03:03 AM


Hey, that title is perfect!! *applauds*
I hope you have sweet dreams occassionally Liz...

Bless your cotten sockies, you poetic maniacs. ^_^

Love - Lynne

Ceinwyn
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7 posted 2003-10-03 03:07 AM


pretty much I'm with them...I see nothing wrong...

If at first you don't succeed destroy all the evidence that you tried.

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