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A Primer









Note first,
that it was an affliction

and not rare at all.

She was so thinly veiled
that the eyes were naked.

In the beginning
the shit
was a sparse layer
over the rock
life being meager and sporadic
but the generations passed
one upon another,

the mothers are pregnant
but barren,

a book of teddy bear tales
where evil is deflated
time and time again

as worlds fall
fertile
but with a foul air.

While the eyes stare.

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Written June 12th, 2005

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  • myrataal silver member
    June 14, 2005
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    poetic affliction

    Yes Lute --

    Holding an ABC-book in hand -- an introduction to life -- this beginner, painter of survival's hues ... And love -- being the test of life -- this burden: oh Love, let me love with Love! Yes: pregnant, but barren; life-filled, but lifeless. Oh Light, let me enlighten with Light!

    Within illusion, softened by tales, evil resides ... and within knowledge the naked, vulnerable eyes are becoming blind -- staring but not seeing ... An ever-ancient rejected bride ... eyes covered by barren soil: diamonds lost.

    Yet: layer by layer rock is formed ... waiting stars ...

    We will become earth with our bodily decay -- but with souls we will soar!

    Myra


    Edited on Jun 15 because ''.


  • June 14, 2005
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    Evol-lute-tion and Fairytales and Pregnancy and Lifeness and Luteless all squashed in a poem so, so little. How lovely.


  • cvillelisa
    June 13, 2005
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    See Lute write.
    See Lisa read Lute.
    Lute writing is a good thing.

    Yeah?

  • bloodstone
    June 13, 2005
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    weirdly good

    leavesd me feeling kinda wierd but obviosly its supposed too exellent piece

  • Melissa Gayle gold member
    June 13, 2005
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    It does get the imagination going, just when I think I figure out what the message it, it takes a turn and its not the same as it was. Wonderfully done.


  • Kendall Campbell
    June 13, 2005
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    I'll have to be honest and even after two reads I'm not completely sure what this means. I believe I have a slight idea but don't think I've grasped the whole picture, so with that, if nothing else, this piece certainly got my imagination working. Well done, take care and God bless.


  • Neha Sharma silver member
    June 13, 2005
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    hmmm.. thats lovely.. u have great imagery..loved
    your words... the flow i decent tooo...!!!
    s
    Neha

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