Because they kill men like that

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Local Rebel
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since 1999-12-21

Posts 5767
Southern Abstentia

0 posted 2004-02-23 12:38 PM

sometimes it is with contempt
my contentment
the great warrior now
stonemason

there is no more glory in
slaying giants
than cutting stone
after all

there is no more glory in
slaying giants
and they sentenced him to die
for corrupting youth
and Socrates drank
instead from the cup

and they sentenced him to die
and the Gallilean
had the gall
turned his cheek
to the man
and said
Strike ME
as an equal

and strike him they did
and he drank his father's cup

as an equal
the King had a dream
on the shoals of Memphis
and in atonement
spilled his cup

and in atonment
so it is
the contempt for my contentment
or perhaps a mere lack of
motivation on my part

he could have just
stayed home with
Xanthippe

serenity blaze
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since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

1 posted 2004-02-23 12:57 PM

well, he could have. And I could have stuck to reading dead poets, but then I would have missed all of this.

and ooooh, chewing nails I love this:

"and the Gallilean
had the gall
turned his cheek
to the man
and said
Strike ME
as an equal"

smile. There's something very gritty and solid in me that understands that completely.

and?

"the contempt for my contentment"

methinks that might get the best of me, but better to die trying I say.

ah....

I got an LR fix.

thank you.

garysgirl

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since 2002-09-29

Posts 19237
Florida, USA

2 posted 2004-02-23 01:57 AM

Goodness, Rebel, it's good to see you!!!

And you know I love this, since I
love all I read of yours!!

And this I surely know.......

and in atonment
so it is
the contempt for my contentment
or perhaps a mere lack of
motivation on my part

Hugs to you,

Ethel

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

3 posted 2004-02-23 02:38 AM

the glory faded long ago

Sunshine

Administrator

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

4 posted 2004-02-23 06:22 AM

Once again...
you dug deep.

inkedgoddess
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since 2002-11-19

Posts 7392
Ohio

5 posted 2004-02-23 06:40 AM

this is too cerebral for breakfast
but maybe at dinnertime i can digest better

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

6 posted 2004-02-23 10:26 AM

But they live on in spite of lives cut short... perhaps more intensely than if old age caused their demise. And what does that say about us... that we listen best when we're left with silence?

Ya had to go and make me think... and you know that's painful for a blonde. LOL It's good to see you back, my friend! *S*

Martie

Moderator

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

7 posted 2004-02-23 10:33 AM

LR

"sometimes it is with contempt
my contentment
the great warrior now
stonemason

there is no more glory in
slaying giants
than cutting stone
after all"

Etched in stone, a word...a picture, can make something more than not at all.

jellybeans
Member Elite

since 2000-10-13

Posts 2298

8 posted 2004-02-23 10:38 AM

there is no more glory in
slaying giants
than cutting stone
after all

no...but it is the heart that matters...therein lies the glory

good read my friend

Snow

Senior Member

since 2000-10-16

Posts 1170
desert flower looking for rain

9 posted 2004-02-23 10:45 AM

every so often i come across someone
that just knocks me off my chair ....

thank you for that!!

snow

"yet each man kills the thing he loves
by each let this be heard,
some do it with a bitter look,
some with a flattering word"
oscar wilde

Greeneyes

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since 2000-09-09

Posts 9903
In Your Poetic Mind

10 posted 2004-02-24 09:48 PM

this was amazing....really...such power!

~~**~~
There are moments when speech
is but a mouth pressed lightly and
humbly against the angel's hands.

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

11 posted 2004-02-24 09:54 PM

WOW!!....just WOW!!

~ Can I keep you? ~
-Casper

sea_of_okc
Senior Member

since 1999-06-15

Posts 568
Oklahoma City, OK, USA

12 posted 2004-02-24 09:56 PM

Powerful verse here.
I like the references, and the world would lack some wonderful stories if any had just stayed home.

iliana
Member Patricius

since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

13 posted 2004-02-28 11:13 PM

Local Rebel -- what a brilliant grouping of analogies -- what deep soul renderings are these! Truly felt and appreciated.

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