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Dark Poetry #4

Serpentine Squeezing

Alwye

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In the space between moments

0 posted 2006-10-25 11:50 PM

A serpentine squeezing off
of reality
--constriction--
of breath and thought
tiny flicks and shudders
(but nothing uttered)
and in the silence
the attack lies on an icy tongue.

Sickly green gaze
floods out from a cavernous place,
ensnares my cowered form
and pulls up the howling fear--
the moments drag and tighten
(what’s the use of fighting?)
as the tears rage forth
into the mouth of madness.

* * * *

It has slithered away to seclusion...for now.

And the sting of the bite has numbed--
but the deepest flesh is dying
mired in the poison.

~*Krista Lee Knutson*~

"Creating yourself is a spiritual act." ~ Susan Vreeland

JenniferMaxwell

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since 2006-09-14

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1 posted 2006-10-26 12:39 PM

A very powerful and well written poem!

cherrys_rule
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since 2006-03-18

Posts 442

2 posted 2006-10-29 07:41 AM

i would also say the same from the person above. Man this was GOOD!

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