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Kaoru

Member Elite

since 2003-06-07

Posts 3892
where the wild flowers grow

0 posted 2004-09-22 03:23 AM

You are much like a reflection
that I can't bear to look upon.
I suppose it could be my contempt
for mirrors... Simply
that I do not understand them,
they are foreign
twisted tongues of fire,

could
lapse into my
inadequate smile.

Why
do I love you?

The heart is such a cruel
weapon, marching in a structure
devoid of balance.
The way we each

suffer, for
this is a war of words,
pinned down and scratching
marbles that slip
like mistakes from my lips --
On the surface I am

nothing more than glass.

Being breakable is not
something I'd admit,
but this world has surpassed normalcy.

So I am burned to be shaped
any way that you please,

perhaps today I'll be a vase -
perched upon your mantle for all to see.

Or

I could be
a mirror, shaped like an oval
essence
of reflection. I, however, will not tell you

if you are at all fair.

ShiningWindHaze
Member

since 2004-09-06

Posts 138
California, United States

1 posted 2004-09-22 04:20 AM

I always like your poetry. Even back when I was Glistening Rain and my other sn before that I forgot. You're an awesome poet. Keep writing. You'll bless people other than just us here.

- Haze

Robert Frazier
Senior Member

since 2003-02-06

Posts 1014

2 posted 2004-09-22 11:30 AM

"pinned down and scratching
marbles that slip
like mistakes from my lips --"
this is really quite good...original - great poem!

Rf

LeeJ
Member Patricius

since 2003-06-19

Posts 13296

3 posted 2004-09-22 12:02 PM

oh my goodness, when you name appears in my word, I am made better from reading you...thank you for this exceptionally well written luminary..hugs and how are you doing?
Hope all is well

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

4 posted 2004-09-22 01:22 PM

Excellent, Meghan. The imagery is amazing!

Aenimal
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-11-18

Posts 7350
the ass-end of space

5 posted 2004-09-22 02:09 PM

ah a megsie poem, my day is complete. how are ya mom?

inkedgoddess
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-11-19

Posts 7392
Ohio

6 posted 2004-09-22 04:15 PM

but this world has surpassed normalcy.

you've said it; and that's why we become at times victim to its hold on us, while we struggle as spirits in this material world
to maintain some sanity while stuck here.
love to read you.

DavePage
Member Elite

since 2003-12-21

Posts 2917

7 posted 2004-09-22 05:02 PM

Liked it a lot, hope you dont mind the reprise.

Dave

Trapped within a mirror
Power in images
Firing power
Inspiring images
To seek images
To live images
In paid recognition
Of pain
In a currency of choice
To scar and tear
Nothing we remember
But decoration
For visitors

dave

wranx
Member Elite

since 2002-06-07

Posts 3689
Moved from a shack to a barn

8 posted 2004-09-22 05:02 PM

Very nice!

Metals, tempered and burnished

and yet....malleable

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

9 posted 2004-09-22 07:05 PM

damn awesome!

gemjop
Member Elite

since 2002-11-18

Posts 2587
Pencilveinia, USA

10 posted 2004-09-22 07:42 PM

Meg! This is the kind of suprise I like. I always miss your words, your dark and dirty beautiful that makes me jealous of you.

The ending is intense. Those most beautiful to us (not the visual sense, but in their entirety) always seem to be so unfair to us, in so many ways, that they would be repulsive, if we didn't love them so much.

Keep up with the baby girl updates, I'm always reading.

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