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Tsunami (Repost) |
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LeeJ Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296
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Tsunami (Repost) Beds of transfiguring, moving designs Lawlessly dancing, dark purples and blues Like a maze of unforgiving snowflakes entwined Gunmetal stares, firelight echoes, scissoring conviction Leaning posses, of violent wetness, touching, scraping lips Fleshless palms, dragging salt formations sightless Coupling like eyeglasses, chasing occupants paralyzed Gnashing teeth, spilling gurneys, turning 180 degrees Groaning blanket, authoritative deadly weight Life, looking dubiously for the dawning sun Like a crop of tuberous begonias, desperately drowning Criss-crossing beneath, as light entering water Rolling out innards across tomorrow, seemingly lifeless Knee deep in horseshoe coves…coves of frozen breakers Dammed by the sea, nothing or no one dares oppose Squalls of walls, dropping like tangled swords whistling blows Aloof backdrops of water’s murky sneeze. from it’s belly, unexposed Crammed with spinning meat grinders, tearing flesh Bleeding dry everything in it’s path Nods like a foreman, heels cavernous blackened openings Torrential streams, braiding lines, unblinking incurable plague A plague with no name, whispering Tsunami So no one forgets….Tsunami like a hungry wolf… Striking flatulent commotions, cylindrical waves, baptizing hell Wrapping funerals with coffins, black magic in its spell A liquid talisman, birthing, spraying white stalks, like war-time telegrams Drinking a child’s soul, with fetid deadly smells Of swamp sea grass and thorny weeds, tearing flesh, rearranging land and history Winking condolences like a drifting dog’s rabid needs Prowess…waking up your mind, a vengeful footbridge teasing Animal-like whelps from every woman’s cry, clenching a stranger In black shirts rolling like dough, cylinders rising and falling where no one goes Like a sheeted ghost, ordering men in rows slammed shut Sea-salt frozen on the dreaded face of time’s window Swaying with the wind, like bugged out seething eyes Submerged in pools swollen with pale frothing dismal brine Dripping from rock’s tattered, twisting to look like a personal insult Facing the storm, the warden of death, suspended in black mystery Upon the rise and fall of surf piling in, roaring tempered engrossing sea Swirling water’s wrath hairpins each and every cliff eaten face Leaving a barren land, accumulating Tsunami’s slugging debris Lifelessness spent...barren, to rebuild again |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
Literally breathtaking! Thank you dear Lee for sharing this .... impossible to forget! Love, Margherita |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
I'm in awe |
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inkedgoddess Member Rara Avis
since 2002-11-19
Posts 7392Ohio |
i felt the passion of this write as you took me there through this tormentous time |
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iliana Member Patricius
since 2003-12-05
Posts 13434USA |
LeeJ, this was so vivid, I found myself looking away from the words at times. It felt like I was there. The only way my heart can handle the agony of these days is to trust a new world is being built.  ....jo |
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*Alli4000*
since 2004-03-21
Posts 3188The World of Poetry |
WoW...  ~Alli~ Happy 2005! |
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JL Member Ascendant
since 2004-04-01
Posts 6128Texas, USA |
Your vivid portrait is excellent. JL |
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