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serenity blaze
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since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

0 posted 2003-06-03 05:46 AM

now
I have been asked
to choose
brimstone
from the golden path
now
I ask myself
to choose
to tell the difference...

now I'm asked
to understand
the subtleties
within...

now I'm asked
to live again
as I betrothed
myself
to death.

Now they toss
the dirt upon
my face in frozen smile.
They maul
the petals
of the rose
and drop them on me
rectified.

now they touch the hand
and pray
on the velvet under knees
and the water
on my face
is holy
in my hour of need.

Now
the light
plays through the glass
and colors play
upon my face.

Now
I see
the universe
finally
with my eyes closed.

simple simon met the pieman
and he gave a quarter bid.
Three foot wide
and six foot dig--
it's where you'll find my bones.

Professor Gloom
Member Elite

since 2000-07-23

Posts 3082
of Depression

1 posted 2003-06-03 07:41 AM

Simple Simon met a Pieman
Going to the fair,
Said the Pieman to poor Simon
“You can’t go there”
Shocked was Simon they’d deny him,
But his face did not turn red
Then the Pieman told Simple Simon
Don’t you know you are dead?

So Simon of the newly dead
Turned slowly round instead
And shuffled back to sorrowed soul
To once again lay within his dank hole.

I came upon him, Simple Simon,
He was just a tattered knave,
With body creaking, still unspeaking
As he lay back into his grave.
He had no velvet casket there
Only a dirty shroud to hide his face,
No marker with name to tell where
Was Simple Simon’s resting place.

Then the Pieman said to Simon
I pity your poor final lay
Then tossed a copper coin in
For the ferryman you can pay.

Gloom

serenity blaze
Member Empyrean

since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

2 posted 2003-06-03 07:44 AM

Then the Pieman told Simple Simon
Don’t you know you are dead?

Love it. It's like jazz.

Jason Lyle
Senior Member

since 2003-02-07

Posts 1438
With my darkling

3 posted 2003-06-03 07:55 AM

Well this simple Simon
Loves the verse and rhym'n
Of both fiery blaze,
and the gloomy pieman

Jason

Seymour Tabin
Member Empyrean

since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

4 posted 2003-06-03 08:08 AM

serenity,
Simple Simon wrote a rhyme
And left it on a symbols time.

Ishmael
Member

since 2003-06-01

Posts 51

5 posted 2003-06-03 01:08 PM

Thick with images. Brocade and velvet and dirt.

vlraynes
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-07-25

Posts 8229
Somewhere... out there...

6 posted 2003-06-03 01:52 PM

This?...very cool...me likes.

Hugs, you
"...until you have read the verse on his heart,
you have not truly met the poet.
~vlraynes

Earth Angel
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since 2002-08-27

Posts 40215
Realms of Light

7 posted 2003-06-03 02:32 PM

You and Gloom should croon a tune!

Duet perhaps?

Warm hugs,
EA

serenity blaze
Member Empyrean

since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

8 posted 2003-06-03 03:02 PM

Linda? why didn't we think of that?
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Hugs you.

and thanks, to all...um, have ya'll noticed I don't know how to say thank you?

sheeesh.

brian sites
Senior Member

since 2002-06-25

Posts 1475
usa

9 posted 2003-06-03 09:58 PM

choose

to tell the difference

yes please

works of art
I swear
make a book
you

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