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Mon Dec-08-08 07:54 AM
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The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Mon 12/8/2008) |
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My Lives
In one I was a dog, reason enough to extend my hand now to dogs and stay as long as they require. Each life as a cat was short and throttled with rage. Countless more went by nameless and wriggling, capable of sensation, but not language. In another I was the soldier bearing torches to burn a city. And once I died in a city that burned, choked on the stink of my black and boiling blood. I killed once for love, and I was killed. The start of wisdom comes with finding no difference between the two. Countless existences vanished in an afternoon, winged fragments cycling through birth, reproduction and death between lunch and dinner. Once I was a courtesan, bathed in the juice of pomegranates, my flesh rubbed soft by milk and pumice. I was a lover of whores, who died of drunkenness and lay undiscovered until snow melt. One life wrote a path into history's slow books where it still lies, waiting to be unburied. But each life believed itself the single one I had, before the door that groans open at the end made clear how many bodies I dwelt in, flesh not shed like a garment, but healed like a scratch too shallow to leave a scar or command any portion of dirt where they fall.
Al Maginnes
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Mon Dec-08-08 09:16 AM
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Mon Dec-08-08 06:10 PM
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I killed once for love, and I was killed. The start of wisdom comes with finding no difference between the two.
love that
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Mon Dec-08-08 08:51 PM
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Mon Dec-08-08 08:51 PM
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8. Hope you feel better soon... |
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Mon Dec-08-08 11:03 AM
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4. Okay, that is just spooky (my poem today is about past lives, too). |
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Mon Dec-08-08 08:52 PM
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Mon Dec-08-08 01:14 PM
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Oh, very nice!
I love the idea of reincarnation...
Hmmm...
This is a rich and fantastic poem!
Thank you...
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