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    by candle light

    the last poem by my favourite neurotic
    was never written, dissipating in
    blood-curdling octaves, like
    a snared rabbit
    she put her lusted disgust in Hell's Kitchen
    far from New York
    far from Auschwitz
    All for food for thought

    she dreaded a head of snakes
    that shed skin in mirrored hate
    she hated adjacent candle lights
    that made sight just enough darker
    to pronounce her shadow's height
    but she loved her hand gripped tight
    by an incubi who held hope
    in disappearing acts & scapegoats
    & the smell of its sulfur lulled her
    in oxidized lies of a different color
    whilst it's nostalgic plight
    skull-fucked her

    before she died, she wrote a list of supplies
    then closed her eyes
    she put the paper to open flame
    her undisclosed thoughts left to vapors
    then a look at a dimmed reflection
    on a window pane
    and said,
    "You're just a poet, don't try to control it
    offspring like a son that Apollo has stolen, it -
    a sparrow to shoot on an empty trail's route
    a sad story once told by the smile of a mute
    a long pause, followed close by a lost cause
    Could I ever tempt God with salivating jaws?
    or draw clause under other people's dreams
    I've slept with best-kept secrets of the elohims
    now like an epic twice told, words are old
    and indistinguishable to my soul
    Know that cold rice still tastes like human faith
    a starved animal in the same mandibles of fate
    the reasons for breathing are stopping; boxed in
    no more backward steps from white tiger's stalking
    opting not for a tick-tocking paradox
    I've enclosed all unwants into this rotten thought
    My fall is now caught in a weightless station
    anticipating the charm of impatient Satans
    amidst all the pages, ravished in cries
    I'm just a product of one kiss
    and one too many lies"

    With orbs sunken like birth
    she left an expired fire of earth
    for the ashes of her velvet lashes
    from past sadness & gashes
    head first
    far from a guillotine
    from from new beginnings
    All for a mangled angel
    called inspiration
    Last edited by spokenoh; January 20th, 2006 at 05:59 PM

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    Daaaaaamn. Now we're talking. My eyes are having orgasms reading this poetic brilliance. The way you began each line in the second verse was effective, the flow throughout was held up by the multis and internals and feminine rhyming and... here, have a kudos pop.

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    Guess the poet.

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    damn sick one, good multies and inners, and the vocabulary was very good as well.... overall, very nice piece, awesome metaphors, and the ending really was good, the very last line was cool, great rhyming


    return the favor and peep exterior interior conflict

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    Quote Originally Posted by spokenbohemian
    Guess the poet.
    Dickenson.
    A ruthless
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    of everything existing.
    Po'ethics
    abstanticollective.

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    Good guess, I can see where you would think that. But no.
    can I kick it?

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    Sylvia Plath

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    Yeah.
    can I kick it?

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    elavate fix ur structure N' be creative
    The words I write are oxygen to greatness.

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    Shut The Fuck Up, faggot.
    can I kick it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mantra
    Sylvia Plath
    oh word. you threw me off with the hells kicthen since dickenson was from massachusets. i remember you being a big fan of sylvia plath though.
    A ruthless
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    of everything existing.
    Po'ethics
    abstanticollective.

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    Yeah, there were a few references to her.
    can I kick it?

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    It's okay to reply.
    can I kick it?

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    Yeah.
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    Wow. You and Laureate man, some realllllyyyy nice stuff. I don't know which piece to nominate cause' their both so good.

    This piece was just so beautiful. Your vocabulary was magnificent. I think, at the beginning you were overdoing it but it got more down to earth and easier to read at the 2nd stanza, thats where everything started coming together for me (aside from the ending stanza and all). The telling of a story about ones life, but it wasn't obvious, so it made the reader have to think what you were getting at, and that to me makes a great poem. The imagery, not really solid, but it was there, especially at the end w/ the whole"

    "With orbs sunken like birth
    she left an expired fire of earth
    for the ashes of her velvet lashes
    from past sadness & gashes"

    ^ That was a very, intense, beautiful way of putting it. Only thing left to comment on was the emotion, and I don't think I really need to comment on that, it was a very emotional piece being that the last stanza was her death and that the 2nd stanza was on a quite emotional 'note' , as you put it.

    That about sums it up for me man, I can't say as though there is anything here that I can tell you to work on. Not that it was flawless, because i'm sure they were there, but I didn't find any so, great piece.

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