I refuse to love in cliches...

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Open Poetry #24

I refuse to love in cliches...

Master
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since 1999-08-18

Posts 1867
Boston, MA

0 posted 2003-02-02 09:56 PM

I refuse to love in clichés! I’ve learned my manners!
I will wash my hands clean before they caress you with verses…
I will bind your ankles with fetters of letters,
And wait for your lips to yell out for mercy.

Until the mercury breaks through the thermometer,
I will turn you inside out like an original metaphor,
Press your stress points in iambic pentameter,
And pronounce each syllable like an energized editor.

Virgin bed sheets will wrinkle like failed poems,
While the candle burns bright, all night on the mantelpiece,
And if I write nothing else after this moment,
I hope you remember me, dear, by this masterpiece.

Check out my poetry here:

http://www.unknownpoets.com/db/authors/master

inkedgoddess
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-11-19

Posts 7392
Ohio

1 posted 2003-02-02 10:56 PM

hope the masterpiece is quite up to the rough and tumble of which he talks/dreams of

christian
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since 2002-12-18

Posts 331

2 posted 2003-02-02 11:27 PM

"I will turn you inside out like an original metaphor"

and that part about virgin bedsheets bending? yeah?

this is genius. your words hit. and they
hit, hard. this is classic.

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

3 posted 2003-02-03 01:05 AM

I know I will remember you, for sure!

Temptress

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-06-15

Posts 7136
Mobile, AL

4 posted 2003-02-04 12:32 PM

What can I say except I love this?

enjoyed.

~~I Love You~~

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

5 posted 2003-02-04 03:23 AM

Enjoyed...James

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