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poettothecars Senior Member
since 2006-02-10
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5221 Scars of Poetic Vice 26 March 2006 Fame was death poetry was not to be alive For whom was to gain reward a dead poet - memory payment of kind This life time - a period adverse veins drained and stripped of blood Words scratched as scars festering void of ways to heal - an eternal reality Deep gauges unmeasured prisons locked away Taken like sateen to rejoice painted black and white Ink spread in pigment smudged representative of mobile pride A receptacle of bile to deliver upon a platter - a platter of gold words “For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.” Acts 17: 28 KJV a poet who cares |
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