A dream lies here
under the scattered leaves and pine cones, adorning her gravestone like flowers of neglect
the moon shines down like stage lights assisting in the orchestration of the neighboring souls as they pay their respects
no sinister ghosts are found among them, though they served their sentences here on earth with a certain scorn
tax collectors, disgraced saints, the good thief and his 20 spoiled milk maids
the wind howls in the west, amplifying those hollow's mourns, that cry and roar like a troubled sea
tossing and turning those doomed vessels risking life and daughters to make the run south of Cape Horn, daring to drown out the cries of past sailors haunting the surf, by singing and cursing Poseidon and his ilk proclaiming them never been born
she washed up with seaweed for hair and foam for a dress, stiff and petrified with frost, she lay on the sand not unlike a Greek statue of old; pale and unmoving in the sun piercing cloud breaking moonlight vanishing crack of dawn
as the dunes weep and cry in the soft sunlit mid-morning breeze, the scavengers prepare themselves for the day ahead, announcing their presence to all who'll hear, or approaching mute and calculating, sneaking up on their prey sideways
Yet something gives them pause, a frozen maiden with eyelashes glittering and sparkling in the sun, with hands folded as if in prayer
if you have ever seen the dejected of the beaches pause before a meal, please tell me for I know no other time, that a gull and crab would not consume the dead, but bury them, as if human
the moon threw crystals across the shoreline illuminating seashells, their labor completed, the crabs and gulls wept silently and move on, while grieving for their limited skills, at not being able to give her a proper funeral, but only what mere beasts could do, for that daughter of gamblers and thieves, crowned not with laurel, but the eternal rays of both sun and moon shimmering and shinning above the stars
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Step Softly...
A contest entry
- Anything & Everything!!! by Sheilasbabygal4life.
700 points, ended November 10, 159 entries
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This is really hauntingly beautiful. I really loved the whole last stanza... glad I stopped by to have a snoop
Well done!!
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thanks bunches!
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I enjoyed it. I'm sure I've read something of yours before because your phrasing seems familiar also the way you build your 'poems' is seemingly identical with one in my memory. Provided you're the same person, you dabble on the line of poetry and prose, what do you prefer to call this?
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Proestry? lol I don't know, this is how it comes to me, long flowing lines, and your not the first person to comment on that. I just like crafting stories with my poetry, if it comes out like prose than so be it. Thanks for the comment and reading!
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um this is really stunning. i can't exactly explain why, and i'm sorry about that, but i love it. imagery, passion, emotion, imapact.
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thank you!
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