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Dark Poetry #1

Life and Death

Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

0 posted 1999-09-25 07:10 AM

LIFE AND DEATH

To wallow in the throes of Death,
To suffer the agony, the sting.
To fight the drip of lifeblood with
Flailing arms of puppets hung on string.
We walk as living corpses, somber,
Heeding what Destiny decrees.
Bleeding away our dreams and passions
In waning shadows of faded memories.

We feel the chill of ill-born wishes,
A billion coins, stillborn, basing the wells.
Trade in our pride and sell our kisses
For glimpses of hope Time soon dispels.
Till empty hearts and glossless eyes
Mock all proverbial afterthought.
Till sincerity, with ridicule, implies
The best aspirations are those forgot.

Lie sedate, dear child, let Time dispose
Any innate desires, even that to breathe.
Close your eyes in sweet repose,
Sleep soundly in Mortality's bequeath.
For the only sting to death is life.
And the only life lost is that engrieved
With wilting flowers that only symbolize the strife
Of selfish man inclined to be bereaved.

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Michael Anderson

And so, being young and dipt in folly
I fell in love with melancholy,
But dreams - of those who dream as I,
Aspiringly, are damned, and die:

EAP

JennyLee
Senior Member

since 1999-09-01

Posts 1461
Northwestern, NJ.

1 posted 1999-09-25 01:52 PM

Captivating Dear Micheal!!!
Love this one!

Jenny

Poet deVine

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-05-26

Posts 22612
Hurricane Alley

2 posted 1999-09-25 02:03 PM

You're so good! (we aren't supposed to play favorites here so I can't say you are my favorite poet)

DreamEvil
Member Elite

since 1999-06-22

Posts 2396

3 posted 1999-09-25 03:24 PM

Nicole
Senior Member

since 1999-06-23

Posts 1835
Florida

4 posted 1999-09-26 05:58 PM

Such imagery! This is excellent, as always.

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