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Grey
Contributed by
shade
on
Wednesday, 24th August 2005 @ 02:11:03 AM in AEST
Topic:
abstract
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Everything's gray In this cement scenery Bewildered thoughts of escape As I approach eagerly With a caffeine clutch So I can sleep easily Swim through blankness and dream about dieties
Analize mass and time Paralyze candlelight Waltz through my memories and swing bats at satellites I walk shadow-like Single step silhouette And play the background with pillow-depth intellect
City-scape cinimatics cartwheel past my axis Trudge through the months, through the mud, through the madness Fading ghosts haunt tombstone sidewalks I find blind spots for my stops to time shop
The sky blankets the mind in a shade of vague Passionless, directionless with a painted face Dreary streetlight peircing Corner goblins force their posture fiercely Only hear their own voices when they talk in theory Stomp and sneer Metal dragons with lit glass eyes and rubber legs, fly on asphault sky and breathe smoke Swallow people whole as stone trees grow
Noone listens to the nameless sage Stench of heartlessness as sharp as razor blades No slave labour, though many are labour slaves Machine type bondage In a maze of dead stars they scream like comets And only the despondent can see like prophets
They run from the dark sounds of the heart's pounds As earth stares mars down We model monoliths to honor economic grip Built high to scrape sky and scar clouds Then we wonder why pain rains outloud
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shade
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2005-08-24 02:11:03] (Date/Time posted on
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Re: Grey
(User Rating: 1 ) by Fionndruinne on
Wednesday, 24th August 2005 @ 03:29:24 AM AEST (User
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I am impressed! I was not expecting such depth, such force and clarity. Not expecting to read anything so good tonight. But this most certainly is that. I have a fondness for writing that takes views of a different angle, talks truth rather than follows the inexorable current, and does so with such an edge of skill. The proliferation of rhymes and near-rhymes throughout are a joy.
Well done! I appreciated this much.
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Re: Grey
(User Rating: 1 ) by Fernanda_F_Rocha on
Wednesday, 24th August 2005 @ 10:47:37 AM AEST (User
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Very good writing and poem!
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Re: Grey
(User Rating: 1 ) by Maxximus on
Wednesday, 5th October 2005 @ 10:34:47 AM AEST (User
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very good write. I like how you exposed the weakness and tendancies of man throughout the poem using the city as a vast metaphor. Very unique, keep it up! |
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