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wayoutwalt Member Elite
since 1999-06-22
Posts 4870TEXAS (it's all big) 
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Familiar You can smell fresh kill in the dark Like nocturnal droppings In a serpentine meadow. Sleeping poppies, Murder in the empty mind shaft, Macabre bloodshot eyeballs, Each flowering image Seen through the stem cell. Left for you to scavenge Hungry engine Strange device Pour your poetry like pathos From a pitcher of poison. Pumice Stone my angry mouth For sipping the antidote- Breathes smoke into my soldered bones. The sky, jet black The horizon, Toothy and banal. The ground where I stand Is semen-white Here my eyes are barren. [This message has been edited by wayoutwalt (11-29-2002 02:49 AM).] |
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Cpat Hair
since 2001-06-05
Posts 11793 |
Walt... the images are stark and painful...mixing metaphor on metaphor while carrying the feel of this from opening line to end... strong stuff pard... hope all is well with you... |
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wayoutwalt Member Elite
since 1999-06-22
Posts 4870TEXAS (it's all big) |
o all's fine mostly yuh the horizon is bleak but that's what it is for a poet who needs to do something more with his life than write about it. Thanks  |
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Cpat Hair
since 2001-06-05
Posts 11793 |
Well bud...no journey begins without a single step... and I understand about horizons. |
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garysgirl 
since 2002-09-29
Posts 19237Florida, USA |
Walter, such emotion and feelings this morning. Hope all will be better real soon. "Love makes the world go around" |
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Sandpiper Senior Member
since 2002-06-15
Posts 738land of flora and fauna |
WOW--felt the vultures circling overhead, and pain--powerful!! |
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Dark Angel Member Patricius
since 1999-08-04
Posts 10095 |
WOW Waltyy... I love this. Keep them coming pal have missed reading you. Maree |
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inkedgoddess Member Rara Avis
since 2002-11-19
Posts 7392Ohio |
this is real heavy reading, and im too zonked out to read it like it deserves to be read, my antennas went up tho, cause its hunting season out here in NJ and that pisses me off every winter when i see the fresh deer on the hoods of the beasts who kill them |
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Wind
since 2002-10-12
Posts 2981 |
hehe, that was spooky. It gave me the chills. Never be normal! |
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elisaseyes Member
since 1999-07-15
Posts 196fort worth texas |
loved that line Walt... wink |
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