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Effigy
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disbelief

0 posted 2000-07-20 02:20 AM


An apparition
so perfect
in it flawless design.
Chimera, deception it's all mine.

Dreams, those delusions of what
was never so perfect in life.
Dreams, those fancy fallacies
that span all the world and seven seas.


In un-enchanted nighttime slumbers
I had no lovely, peaceful fantasies,
just more ambiguous hallucinations,
brought on by invisible temptations.

I have seen visions and inviting mirages
secretly inhabited by ghost and ghouls
and an assortment of other forgotten phantoms. But her.
she has not left me, a memory, a living specter.

Her spirit lost in the uncertain
labyrinth of illusion, and random memory.
A little pixie dust will make it right,
that’s all that is needed on this sleepless night.

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After all, what is reality anyway? Nothin' but a collective hunch.
  






[This message has been edited by Effigy (edited 07-20-2000).]

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Sunshine
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1 posted 2000-07-20 09:14 AM


Effigy, I like it, I Like It!!!  Good stuff!

Sunny

~~~Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Helen Keller ~~~

When you want to be loved, look within...KRJ



monique
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Louisiana
2 posted 2000-07-21 03:40 AM


I want to ad Heavy Stuff!
I like it too!

monique

brian madden
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ireland
3 posted 2000-07-22 06:42 AM


Effigy, wonderful poem. magical stuff excellent images

why must we pray
screaming? why must not death be redefined? we shut our eyes we stretch out our arms and whirl on a pane of glass-patti smith

Sunshine
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4 posted 2000-07-24 12:20 PM


Ah, I had to take another look...this still likes me a whole lot...

Sunny

~~~Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Helen Keller ~~~

When you want to be loved, look within...KRJ


Effigy
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disbelief
5 posted 2000-07-24 03:23 PM


A revised version is on the main page under the name "The Tricks of Memory"

After all, what is reality anyway? Nothin' but a collective hunch.




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6 posted 2002-07-31 05:19 PM


Said if I only could ...
-KB

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