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Corinne
Member Ascendant

since 1999-10-28

Posts 5167
state of confusion

0 posted 2004-07-16 06:18 PM

Shadows play in the sunniest of corners.
Misshapen gargoyles stretch across sleeping beds.
Holed eyes track our night paces.

Stubby fingers tally failings:
what we've stolen or tossed away.
Scars are carved from our own knife collections;
we wear our belts like pelts.

At sleep’s cliff, we hear wheezy-whispers:
watch eyelid movies where we star,
sliding down an unfurling tongue
made plump and red by our feed.
We are arteries of old pain clinging.

In R.E.M. we fight
with roiling fists
and steady screams.

[This message has been edited by Corinne (07-16-2004 07:35 PM).]

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

1 posted 2004-07-16 06:31 PM

What I like about your poetry
is when your muse that is sitting in you...
eventually comes
to visit me.

SEA

Moderator

Member Seraphic

since 2000-01-18

Posts 22676
with you

2 posted 2004-07-16 06:43 PM

what a cool write

Enchantress
Member Empyrean

since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

3 posted 2004-07-16 07:01 PM

Excellent write Corinne!
Very much enjoyed!
Hugs~

~Somewhere in my heart I'm always
Dancing with you in the summer rain ~

Susan
Member Ascendant

since 2004-03-27

Posts 5104
walking the surreal

4 posted 2004-07-16 07:37 PM

Impession made.

Susan

Happiness isn't something that happens to you, it's created from within you. Joy is a state of mind.

Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

5 posted 2004-07-17 10:58 AM

hmmm...... well written and powerful... perhaps a bit self deprecating....

hugs my friend.. for nights when age and sleep tumble hard to pillows..

Marge Tindal

Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

6 posted 2004-07-17 03:38 PM

Corinne~
Oh gal ... this is one WOWSER of a write~
I know that R.E.M. mode only too, too well~
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost,
the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
- Sufi epigram <))><

[email protected]

iliana
Member Patricius

since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

7 posted 2004-07-17 06:17 PM

Great write, Corinne!

Susan Caldwell
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-12-27

Posts 8348
Florida

8 posted 2004-07-17 08:27 PM

"Stubby fingers tally failings"

Loved that line!!!

Excellent poem!

"cast me gently into the morning, for the night has been unkind"
~Sarah McLachlan~

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

9 posted 2004-07-18 01:00 PM

wow...*sigh*

Kahlil
Senior Member

since 2003-04-12

Posts 1881

10 posted 2004-07-18 01:23 PM

...this is just awesome...
have enjoyed reading it many times and can identify with all of it...
heh heh, gargoyle, yes...
~K~

Corinne
Member Ascendant

since 1999-10-28

Posts 5167
state of confusion

11 posted 2004-07-18 05:25 PM

Thanks everyone! Yep, a bit dark and depressing, I know, but some nights are like that!

Corinne

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