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Open Poetry #37

Madagascar

cinnabar
Junior Member

since 2006-03-10

Posts 33
Lot et Garonne, France.

0 posted 2006-03-13 07:30 PM

When earth was young, and starting to cool,
Long before God had begun to fool
With flawed ideas of humankind,
(Who knows what was in his mind?),
Vast oceans, pacific blue, and indian green,
Streamed, where once only fires had been.
And down where the steaming africas begin,
The garden, they say, where man discovered sin;
Clinging to the rift where two worlds
Lie in shear, rose the tear of Madagascar,
The jewel in dry arabia's ear.

A strange, sequestered, Gioconda isle,
Whose forests conceal an enigmatic smile.
Where evolution held a different sway,
Took another path, so that, today,
In its jungles, such animals abound,
That nowhere else on earth are found.
And in the ocean on which it rides,
A paleolithic bestiary still slides.

This is the place where my dreams are borne,
Each night, when the veil of day is torn;
And I walk beneath a tropic canopy,
Where once was said, 'Here monsters be.'
But waking, I cannot turn my gaze
To that hip of coast, smouldering in the haze,
For a new, and unlooked for destiny
Has left me nothing but a reverie,
Where I am safe, in that demi-planet hurled
From the limp embrace of the common world;
And I inhabit, still, the mystery apart,
And Madagascar holds me in its heart.

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

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California

1 posted 2006-03-13 07:59 PM

Wonderful!!

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

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Canada eh.

2 posted 2006-03-13 08:33 PM

P E R F E C T !!

~ Trace my body with your words,
in doing so, you touch my heart ~

The Lady
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-12-26

Posts 7634
The Southwest

3 posted 2006-03-14 12:09 PM

Awesome! I like your work.

XOx Uriah xOX
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since 2006-02-11

Posts 1403
Virginia

4 posted 2006-03-14 03:08 AM

Excellent !!!! Wow !

cinnabar
Junior Member

since 2006-03-10

Posts 33
Lot et Garonne, France.

5 posted 2006-03-14 09:47 AM

I send you all a kiss. Yes, even you. You know who I mean.

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