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    A poem is...

    ...a stick
    with which to beat back death.
    *
    ...a sabbath
    for the heart.
    *


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    like the first snippet. it's like a ray of light dancing on the waves.
    shh!!!
    the air and water have been here a long time, and they are telling stories.

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    You amaze me by you ability to say in just a few words things that have such great meaning!
    Some of us laugh
    Some of us cry
    Some of us smoke
    Some of us lie
    But it's all just the way
    that we cope with our lives...

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    A poem is...

    ...a conversation
    you've been neaning to have
    with someone who left
    half-way through it


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    Last edited by PrinceMyshkin; 08-02-2009 at 10:04 AM.

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    Heh, nice! A live update poem...I like the idea, though your metaphor's somewhat haiku-ish.

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    I like to think of death as an poetic muse as a means to express my agony. I try to embrace it, not fight it off. Still love the lines though.

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    A poem is...

    ...an accident
    that turns out, on occasion,
    to be right


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    Quote Originally Posted by PrinceMyshkin View Post
    ...a stick
    with which to beat back death.
    *
    ...a sabbath
    for the heart.
    *


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    This is deep

    “Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature””

    “If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

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    A poem is...

    Sisyphus
    as the rock
    begins to roll back on him

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    A poem is...

    ...a moment that will pass,
    that knows it will pass
    and that is here
    in the act of eluding us.

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    A poem is...

    ... a glimmering shadow to show the very kernel of your heart.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PrinceMyshkin View Post
    ...a stick
    with which to beat back death.
    *
    ...a sabbath
    for the heart.
    *


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    Oh I really like this.
    LET THERE BE LIGHT

    "Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena

    My literature blog: http://ashesfromburntroses.blogspot.com/

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nimor View Post
    ... a glimmering shadow to show the very kernel of your heart.
    Beautiful! I hope you'll add another as it occurs to you and that other Lit-netters might do so as well.

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    not the bottle,
    though the sand that made it
    conspired in its seething,
    nor is the cork
    any more than patience―
    firm and pliable.

    Listen to the decanting,
    but do not be fooled―
    the wine
    is not the poem,
    its redolence warns,
    but its piquancy along a tongue.


    © Copyright, Originally composed and posted on http://www.online-literature.com/for...splay.php?f=14 under the penname firefangled, August 8, 2009
    Last edited by firefangled; 08-10-2009 at 09:25 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by firefangled View Post
    not the bottle,
    though the sand that made it
    conspired in its seething,
    nor is the cork
    any more than patience―
    firm and pliable.

    Listen to the decanting,
    but do not be fooled―
    the wine
    is not the poem,
    its redolence warns,
    but its piquancy along a tongue.


    © Copyright, Originally composed and posted on http://www.online-literature.com/for...splay.php?f=14 under the penname firefangled, August 8, 2009
    How I admire your comfortable, respectful, joyful relationship with language, the way the whole of any one of your poems is contained in every word of it!

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