Cleopatra's Risen - (Inspired by Snow's poem - (Evocative Verse))

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Cleopatra's Risen - (Inspired by Snow's poem - (Evocative Verse))

EvocativeVerse2
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since 2003-09-10

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0 posted 2004-07-18 09:37 PM

Cleopatra's Risen

This glacial existence doth cleave my heart,
and "solitude," forsakes me. Gift me she...
my Sahara. Let lips be scorched for her
kiss...for I'm but the culmination of

desire. Indifference I know thee not.
I am wedded to the wilderness of
the badlands and I avow thou shouldest
look to the Nile, Cleopatra's risen.

Yea the tide of Egypt flows again; save
in the old songs we called her Iteru.
The Greeks they speak of Styx...yet what can they
ascertain? That chilled liquid that mizzles

down from sheer crag, and is but one offshoot
of the Okeanos defies recounting.
All ramble away from that hallowed flow.
Through the nightmarish obscurity of

the sphere it channels, and this runnel is
but a tenth part of all. Corkscrewing in
scintillating waters, the eternal,
primeval inlet of Styx encloses

the earth and the sea's broad parapets. Let
immorality be tumbled into
these brackish waters, but this streamlet, this
lifeblood which acutely vexes the gods,

runs ceaselessly from precipice and roars
into the imperishable. 'Tis here
I will find her, and when I do I will
know her to be my hearts' true ecstasy.

What is love but a waiting for wholeness?
What is a tributary but one stream
of the sum? To thee I flow…cascading
towards the dulcet timbre of your kiss.

Remember, if you're not part of the future, you're history!

Snow

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since 2000-10-16

Posts 1170
desert flower looking for rain

1 posted 2004-07-19 02:31 AM

::::::::::swooooon::::::::::::
honestly kev.. are you trying to tempt me to say.... "ignore what i said in that email?!?!?!?" *smirk*

you, gentle friend... are a wonder. please don't stop doing what you do. ;-) much love... me

"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

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

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displaced

2 posted 2004-07-19 03:07 AM

froggy
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since 2003-06-23

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Michigan

3 posted 2004-07-19 02:10 PM

Beautiful Kevin.

:-)

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

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Tamarac Fla

4 posted 2004-07-19 02:20 PM

EvocativeVerse2
"
What is love but a waiting for wholeness?
What is a tributary but one stream
of the sum? To thee I flow…cascading
towards the dulcet timbre of your kiss."

That about sums it up/

Wolf777
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since 2001-02-28

Posts 20

5 posted 2004-07-20 08:28 PM

You work perfectly with my favorite poet. I hear there is a duo in the future, yes?

M.

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