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RSWells Member Elite
since 2001-06-17
Posts 2533
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That was a mousy face I looked in for perfection and a tiny body I tried to see as marble icon. Senseless flattery surrounded a mind like amber round a simple bug. The thing I couldn’t locate, but foolishly assumed, was compassion to a depth beyond a compact mirror. Was I your uncle? Some gentleman nee Jesuit who’d not notice you did a line and razor-knicked that little nose one time I came to take you out? Ever the fearless I weighed in, tummy sucked, tip toed hope, shiny faced in fresh hair-cut anticipation, leaving out the sirens that had kept me from being blown away or stomped on too mean streets. Brought along instead the hidden well of a heart, just knowing you’d fall in, or wanting you to haul its pail up to the light and level plain. Poor girl (and poorer me because), your quasi advertising job in a huge city overwhelmed that true person, your tinsel strength, East Texas hamlet reared (by a part time mother, no father and a grandmother who’d have loved me) snipped by “Ally McBeal,” “Sex in the City” and cardboard cut-outs for girlfriends (who’d never want you truly happy) You simply thought you’d click the remote and I’d disappear, pixel crackling disintegration. Poets against the war is redundant |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
A painful portrait to remember, the kind of memory passionate poets write about.  |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
a bite of bitters, with some sweet absynthe here, heated, warmed and strained over cubed crystal sugar, through a spoon, dainty glowing green in translucence begging for "again"....  You inspire, sir. |
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Snow
since 2000-10-16
Posts 1170desert flower looking for rain |
damn! the pure honest raw feel to this is ... outstanding! this is the kind of poetry that jumps off a page and shakes the reader by the shoulder to see if we're paying attention. wow. i am so damn impressed! ~~~~~~~ |
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