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Open Poetry #37

Velvet Sky

Liz Sinclair
Member

since 2006-05-06

Posts 93
Atlantis

0 posted 2006-05-09 11:43 PM

Velvet Sky

Frantic movements rose in anguish as
pulsations bled in obscure force.
The constancy of the death tone
rang like a tempest swell,
in the heart of a rancid doom.

Whispers, hidden within the
cries of despair, prayed to a
concrete deity mounted on the wall.

"Oh Father, hear our prayers!"

She screamed in defiance;
her voice, transparent in
the midst of living testaments.

"I am here! I am here!"

She laid in perfect stillness.
Her expression, embroidered
like a graying sorrow,
sighed heavily upon a once
stout face of rosy flesh.

"But I'm here...I'm here," she whimpered,
as her body was covered
under a starched white sheet.

"Ye, though I walk through the
valley of the shadow of death..."
were the last words she heard,
as her world bled into the oblivion.

And the velvet sky turned to stone.

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

1 posted 2006-05-10 12:28 PM

oh, a chillingly good write here
velvet, turned to stone...
such dynamic contrasting imagery

The Lady
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-12-26

Posts 7634
The Southwest

2 posted 2006-05-11 10:26 PM

"Her expression, embroidered
like a graying sorrow,
sighed heavily upon a once
stout face of rosy flesh."

Incredible work Liz. Such wonderful descriptions.

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