Fallen Armour, Abruptly Dismissed

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Open Poetry #23

Fallen Armour, Abruptly Dismissed

RSWells
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since 2001-06-17

Posts 2533

0 posted 2002-11-25 01:49 PM

The hillside bears a smattering of errors
that deemed not worth the tow or ambulance,
inanimate last witnesses of terrors
those moments where the fright masked muscles tensed.

A kickplate that once welcome mat the doorway
of the too slow diesel, gray, German made,
crumpled once smooth wheel disc marked Chevrolet,
blind rearview mirror, faded window shade,

cliff hung, pristine, death defied antennae
harpoons a now subtracted license frame,
stark, a headrest time seems dyed of henna,
an orphaned rim deformed, forever lame.

The rusting wrack and ruined all unclaimed,
cenotaphs to the lives turned back to clay
festoon this hill their road's end beyond blame
of the all too humans who'll ne'er pass this way.

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Drive carefully this holiday season

"Happy people have no history" - French Proverb

[This message has been edited by RSWells (11-25-2002 02:53 PM).]

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

1 posted 2002-11-25 02:07 PM

RSWells
You beat a mean symbol, LOL enjoyed.

ThisDiamond
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-02-22

Posts 9353
Michigan, USA

2 posted 2002-11-25 07:19 PM

In my mind the crumple of steel mesmerized...good wishes and good write.
ThisDiamond

Alicia
Member

since 2002-03-22

Posts 279

3 posted 2002-11-25 07:33 PM

~Give me another word for chilling, unnerving, these I'm just not happy with. You have reached, I have heard, I do, I hear. - Your poem Richard plays itself in front of me, each line a flash, fast and piercing, all in ending with a slow hang overhead and sighing. *Peace.

Sandpiper
Senior Member

since 2002-06-15

Posts 738
land of flora and fauna

4 posted 2002-11-26 07:42 AM

ohhhhhhhh, gave me the frissons--I think I'll walk! You do have an incredible way of making a point!

"I am a sky where spirits live.
Stare into this deepening blue,
while the breeze says a secret."
Jelaluddin Rumi

Mysteria

Member Laureate

since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

5 posted 2002-11-26 08:57 AM

Great writing Richard, and Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.

Let there be peace on earth,
and let it begin with me.

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