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    "Ars longa, vita brevis"
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    When the Bell Rings

    Im trying a go at writing whatever comes to mind, and seeing what it comes up with.


    When the bell rings
    I walk
    as i always have before
    on cracked platelets of concrete
    their steep rise and ridged falls
    peaks of mountains which i often stumble over
    i guess
    the familiarity of routine
    will never earn precedence
    over my clumsiness
    when the bell rings
    i am released
    to a setting dusk
    of smoky grays
    dusty browns
    and muted purple
    I feel so muted
    when the bell rings
    I follow
    down
    the lone tar road
    the green mile
    rowed with saplings dug in this year
    their young leafy spikes
    striking ridicule at the steely
    walls that confine us
    to this life
    blocking our sun
    the church bell rings
    and i still see their faces
    low hanging skin
    deep recessed eyes
    shadowed by the looming city
    dulled
    as somber as mine

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    Registered User Amylian's Avatar
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    Anarchism in poetry?? Well, this could work!!

    Really, this is good stuff, but, personally, not as good as your poem 'Delicate'. That one I think you mastered a large painting in simple words...

    Anyway, I just want to note that instead of using the small letter "i", would it not be better to use the Capital "I"? Not just the "I", but the beginning of each line. Sorry about this!!!

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    Amylian AKA Ali Makki


    "To die knowing you were honest with yourself is sure worth it." Ali Makki

    My latest poems:
    The Eve of Polyxena
    He Who Saw the Deep

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    Haribol Acharya blazeofglory's Avatar
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    I like the poem.

    “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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