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    Quote Originally Posted by Hes View Post
    Reverie

    on the cusp
    perhaps
    butterflies flutter
    long dormant
    awakened by your sun
    standing on the edge
    that dizzying height
    wheel and run
    or lean and fall
    hoping their wings
    can carry me...

    (the author wishes to point out that she is just introspecting...any resemblance to actual people, alive or dead, is purely coincidental)
    I love the imagery of being carried by butterfly wings and the metaphor, very nice

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    Quote Originally Posted by freckle View Post
    I love the imagery of being carried by butterfly wings and the metaphor, very nice
    Thanks Freckle...I like the idea of the fragility of their wings symbolising that it is 'touch and go' as to whether they can protect and support the leaper and also butterflies symbolising transformation. I use them a lot in my artwork. Then there is the whole butterflies in the stomach thing...I have an illustration idea for that.

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    While I'm at it....I wrote this a month or so ago. The mason imagery I used elsewhere but I reread this and didn't dislike it as much as I thought.

    Fathers and lovers

    Those two lovers have come and gone
    But like the mason shaping stone
    Their hands and words leave indelible marks
    That linger invisible in mind and body
    And shape my future self
    Looking through windows to the past
    I glimpse family mornings
    And I, the temporary guest,
    Sitting at breakfast tables
    With his timid daughters
    And his fiercely passionate twins
    I took as little space as possible
    So that my disappearance would go unnoticed
    When I pass them in the street
    We smile at each other
    but I do not know them now
    Long limbed coltish
    Beautiful young women
    Do they remember how I swang
    Upside down to make them laugh
    Took them to their first concert
    Jumped rivers to please them
    These surrogate children who were never mine
    I mourned the loss of my lovers
    His blue eyes and wolfish grin
    Long body, firm hands, gentle voice,
    And he, sullen yet passionate
    Anger simmering behind fierce loving
    But it is them that I miss still
    I am no longer privy to their promise
    I will not celebrate their successes
    Hug them through their failures
    My little strangers.
    Last edited by Hes; 20-03-2010 at 02:34 PM. Reason: spelling

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    Hate.

    Don't try to change the minds of the ignorant,
    By trying to make them force down P.C. platitudes,
    They will take no notice of you and never repent,
    Their minds are closed books full of violence and feuds.

    Well meaning you maybe put this approach gives them power,
    What needs to change is the focus of attack,
    Then their position will weaken hour by hour,
    By bringing it back to the so called victim we can take it back.

    What i mean is that if you're told that a word will hurt then it will,
    So turn that round it is only a random collection of letters,
    If you use this train of thought you can knock down the hill,
    And never worry again about these cowardly braggers.

    To conclude lets start now and take the words back,
    And destroy their power and be upfront and proud,
    There is nothing to stop us walking this track,
    So tell the world I'm mentally ill and proud.

    By Herakles.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hes View Post
    While I'm at it....I wrote this a month or so ago. The mason imagery I used elsewhere but I reread this and didn't dislike it as much as I thought.

    Fathers and lovers

    Those two lovers have come and gone
    But like the mason shaping stone
    Their hands and words leave indelible marks
    That linger invisible in mind and body
    And shape my future self
    Looking through windows to the past
    I glimpse family mornings
    And I, the temporary guest,
    Sitting at breakfast tables
    With his timid daughters
    And his fiercely passionate twins
    I took as little space as possible
    So that my disappearance would go unnoticed
    When I pass them in the street
    We smile at each other
    but I do not know them now
    Long limbed coltish
    Beautiful young women
    Do they remember how I swang
    Upside down to make them laugh
    Took them to their first concert
    Jumped rivers to please them
    These surrogate children who were never mine
    I mourned the loss of my lovers
    His blue eyes and wolfish grin
    Long body, firm hands, gentle voice,
    And he, sullen yet passionate
    Anger simmering behind fierce loving
    But it is them that I miss still
    I am no longer privy to their promise
    I will not celebrate their successes
    Hug them through their failures
    My little strangers.
    Hes this is truly sublime...it makes me ache with shocked empathy.
    Am Yisrael Chai

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    Quote Originally Posted by Herakles View Post
    Hate.

    Don't try to change the minds of the ignorant,
    By trying to make them force down P.C. platitudes,
    They will take no notice of you and never repent,
    Their minds are closed books full of violence and feuds.

    Well meaning you maybe put this approach gives them power,
    What needs to change is the focus of attack,
    Then their position will weaken hour by hour,
    By bringing it back to the so called victim we can take it back.

    What i mean is that if you're told that a word will hurt then it will,
    So turn that round it is only a random collection of letters,
    If you use this train of thought you can knock down the hill,
    And never worry again about these cowardly braggers.

    To conclude lets start now and take the words back,
    And destroy their power and be upfront and proud,
    There is nothing to stop us walking this track,
    So tell the world I'm mentally ill and proud.

    By Herakles.
    That final verse in particular, tells it like it is, says it all - unadorned, to the point - very well said Herakles.
    Am Yisrael Chai

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hes View Post
    While I'm at it....I wrote this a month or so ago. The mason imagery I used elsewhere but I reread this and didn't dislike it as much as I thought.

    Fathers and lovers

    Those two lovers have come and gone
    But like the mason shaping stone
    Their hands and words leave indelible marks
    That linger invisible in mind and body
    And shape my future self
    Looking through windows to the past
    I glimpse family mornings
    And I, the temporary guest,
    Sitting at breakfast tables
    With his timid daughters
    And his fiercely passionate twins
    I took as little space as possible
    So that my disappearance would go unnoticed
    When I pass them in the street
    We smile at each other
    but I do not know them now
    Long limbed coltish
    Beautiful young women
    Do they remember how I swang
    Upside down to make them laugh
    Took them to their first concert
    Jumped rivers to please them
    These surrogate children who were never mine
    I mourned the loss of my lovers
    His blue eyes and wolfish grin
    Long body, firm hands, gentle voice,
    And he, sullen yet passionate
    Anger simmering behind fierce loving
    But it is them that I miss still
    I am no longer privy to their promise
    I will not celebrate their successes
    Hug them through their failures
    My little strangers.
    Nice one Hes

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    Quote Originally Posted by Herakles View Post
    Hate.

    Don't try to change the minds of the ignorant,
    By trying to make them force down P.C. platitudes,
    They will take no notice of you and never repent,
    Their minds are closed books full of violence and feuds.

    Well meaning you maybe put this approach gives them power,
    What needs to change is the focus of attack,
    Then their position will weaken hour by hour,
    By bringing it back to the so called victim we can take it back.

    What i mean is that if you're told that a word will hurt then it will,
    So turn that round it is only a random collection of letters,
    If you use this train of thought you can knock down the hill,
    And never worry again about these cowardly braggers.

    To conclude lets start now and take the words back,
    And destroy their power and be upfront and proud,
    There is nothing to stop us walking this track,
    So tell the world I'm mentally ill and proud.

    By Herakles.
    I love that line "what I mean is that if your told that a word will hurt then it will" brilliant !

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    Re: Today's poet

    Ideas

    words are flickering like a humming birds wings
    Concentrate, Concentrate!
    Ideas that were clear have begun to pixelate
    Mind holding onto thoughts like fingertips
    scratching at cliffs edge but, slip
    slip, slipping.
    Words now; inapproprite shoes
    Kicking
    at the face;
    crumbling,
    no purchase.
    falling, blurred
    and gone...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Herakles View Post
    Hate.

    Don't try to change the minds of the ignorant,
    By trying to make them force down P.C. platitudes,
    They will take no notice of you and never repent,
    Their minds are closed books full of violence and feuds.

    Well meaning you maybe put this approach gives them power,
    What needs to change is the focus of attack,
    Then their position will weaken hour by hour,
    By bringing it back to the so called victim we can take it back.

    What i mean is that if you're told that a word will hurt then it will,
    So turn that round it is only a random collection of letters,
    If you use this train of thought you can knock down the hill,
    And never worry again about these cowardly braggers.

    To conclude lets start now and take the words back,
    And destroy their power and be upfront and proud,
    There is nothing to stop us walking this track,
    So tell the world I'm mentally ill and proud.

    By Herakles.
    Hey Herakles, this is great. Very powerful! Love and hate...important topics on the thread.

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