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brian sites
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0 posted 2002-07-19 01:03 AM


the swollen glut of anatomy
I keep below my chest
an interest rare,
but it was there,
when head faltered, failed to crest

I gazed at sudden clarity
       the dimple spoke forgotten dreams
and falling through the hole
       I found what Mother Ocean means
through the hole
       I found my missing ocean dreams

the empty socket used to be
connected to the soup
ugly sure,
this ropey door,
a fragile, purple, fibrous loop

slow-motion floating royalty
       I stared at nothing like a fool
with my tiny hand around
       the avenue to primal pool
my tiny hand
       waving like a primal fool

exquisite beings that we were once
and never could foresee
the hard and dry,
the serpent's lie,
godforsaken reality

splashing universal joy
       we laughed and played at being pure
but it really couldn't last
       screaming at the closing door
it couldn't last
       furious and screaming pure

the little guy is lost to me
although it must have been
for I was told,
by useless fold
a tragic tale of fallen skin

awareness running back to me
       regretful trips it to the floor
and with a painful weary sound
       decides it wants to live some more
a weary sound
       wants to live and trip some more

I never aimed at reality; I aimed at truth. --Orson Welles

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wranx
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1 posted 2002-07-19 01:09 AM


Quite a view ya got there out your "Bellybutton Window".

So? You've discovered the Mystic Portal.

Too Cool!
Looking forward to your treatise on the Pinky Toe.

~wranx

I have great faith in Humanity...It's just most of the Humans, I'm not too keen on.     E.F.Rose

doreen peri
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2 posted 2002-07-19 01:12 AM


interesting use of imagery....

fine skilled display of meter and interior rhyme...

loved the theme...!

nice work!!

brian sites
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3 posted 2002-07-19 01:54 AM


no pinky toes here -- thanks wranx
I appreciate the thoughtful read Doreen
thank you
BS.

idrift2u
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since 2002-07-09
Posts 60
MD., USA
4 posted 2002-07-21 12:30 PM


Hey, cool
Hey, sometimes I see an eye in mine....


wait, huh?


Nice work


Thanks...


Big thumbs in the air

Krishankins
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5 posted 2002-07-22 06:28 PM


Very creative! I'm likin' the way you made the words dance with this!!
wranx
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6 posted 2002-07-22 08:39 PM


Sorry BS, thought this could use a new audience

~wranx

The shortest distance between two points...
is sometimes, intolerable.      

Bukowski

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