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Open Poetry #20

Inspired by Phaedrus

Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

0 posted 2002-05-11 07:31 AM

Inspired by Phaedrus

For no glass filled with less content
Should thy ghost of Shakespeare drain
As all platitudinous poets of this earth
Shall suffer solitude and lonesome’s pain

So sang the writer, lean fingers black
For by ink his heart still wept in vain
As ethereal ghosts from all past days
Rancor his ear with his own name

And he writes to please, fulfill his Muse
He waits for her to shine him bright
For her face to show more than enthuse
He pens that she might glow inward light

He fills again a glass with more of less content
Praying good Will would tap his brain
He hunches shoulders in forward bent
Suffering in solitude and lonesome’s pain

He would, by Will, plead his Muse, she to stay
Her pleasure sought, his heart inks, night, to day

Enchantress
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Canada eh.

1 posted 2002-05-11 09:18 AM

Expertly penned Karilea!
Now I shall have to find the piece by
Phaedrus which inspired this wonderful write.
~Morning Hugs~

Tiersdin
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since 2000-11-17

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east coast

2 posted 2002-05-11 09:24 AM

Very pretty, K, wonderful!

good to read you!

*smiles*
~Tier

Nan

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3 posted 2002-05-11 09:25 AM

Phaedrus - Will love this.. As I do...

Janet Marie
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4 posted 2002-05-11 09:49 AM

For no glass filled with less content
Should thy ghost of Shakespeare drain
As all platitudinous poets of this earth
Shall suffer solitude and lonesome's pain

So sang the writer, lean fingers black
For by ink his heart still wept in vain
As ethereal ghosts from all past days
Rancor his ear with his own name
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very cool K ... love the vocabulary & language of this and the dark angsty edge.
Phae and Will shall be honored Im sure

When your own emptiness is all thats getting through
There comes a point when youre not sure why youre still talking...
I passed that point long ago

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