tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40591250739722943252024-02-08T10:02:23.313-08:00pinepearsCaroline Sapphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03644554499368633032noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4059125073972294325.post-5521291453567809622012-12-20T13:07:00.002-08:002012-12-20T13:28:33.222-08:00Cliff-Diving<b><u>Cliff-Diving.</u></b><br />
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<i>Preface:</i> A series of unfortunate events-not the children's series-but, a series of unfortunate events coupled with a fresh reading of Sylvia Plath's <i>The Bell Jar</i> created questions in my own mind about the topic of cliff-diving. One must remember that cliff-diving need not be taken literal, or of course, cliff-diving can be taken literal ... do as you wish.<br />
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<i><b>Mind Wonders upon Cliff-Diving:</b></i><br />
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Is cliff-diving really a fun adventure to an individual, to a group? A sport-whatever a sport is? Do groups of people or even a single soul really intend to jump off a cliff for fun? I've seen these cliff divers at the lake, at the beach, and of course, on television and movies, but do they really believe this death dive is fun? Do they wonder what will happen if a hidden rock only pokes its head above water as their head is greeting it? Or, do they want to play the mermaid or merman game and never play the earthling game again? Who knows? For it isn't for me decide. For I've been a cliff diver: both mentally and physically. Almost all beings have been cliff divers, whether they acknowledge this fact or not. <br />
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Some cliff divers dive into the deep mentally. Yup, mentally. Maybe it's a mental reaction to an external force or some physical action inflicted or boundary cut loose: the only thing the mind can do is cliff-dive. You see, these mental cliff divers, some-for who am I to label which person is a mental or physical cliff diver-wish to not cliff dive at all. They would rather freefall. But, alas, they finally land. Their landing is not the clear cut noise of a cliff diver gracefully gliding into the water. Oh, no. Remember, these are mental cliff divers. Their dive is into a dismal land of decadence, of doom. They're quite content with their scratched but not exposed cup, whether it be filled with murky or muddy water. For when they finish their free fall-the truth, the action, the reaction-into the water, that murky or muddy water filled cup called life pours out and exposes them to reality.<br />
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The mental cliff diver no longer perceives the gleaming gold glitter. Instead, they realize it was only the sun, toying with the fact that the truth can be, or is, the red rotted wood at the end of their freefall. That rotten truth unfurls and the bubble breaks: breaks and maggots bumble from their opaque glittered bubble. While we all know that the bubble-we can call it an ornament even-has scratches or doesn't glow rainbow unicorns all day, or even half a day, it's our perception of reality. We don't want to see our scratched bubble broke and the maggots bumble around us. So instead, we cliff dive, hoping to freefall, to never land, to never really see reality.<br />
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The actual cliff diver dives. He or she or it may get a rush, an adrenaline kick. So, maybe it's their kick, their fix that encourages this risky behavior? Maybe it's their thoughts, their images of their beautiful scissor slice dive? Or, maybe they too wish to freefall and land but prefer the physical to the mental cliff dive? Or, maybe they are the ones we mental cliff divers should look up to: for strength, for endurance to face the truth. Because the actual cliff divers know that in the end of their freefall, they glide into the green lake, the gold sea-where the actual cliff diver sees the crystal clear calm that shows him or her or it, reality-whether contrary to their wishes or to their scratched bubbles. <br />
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Guess it depends on the cliff diver.Caroline Sapphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03644554499368633032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4059125073972294325.post-30782546083535071552012-08-25T17:23:00.003-07:002012-10-26T18:06:44.259-07:00<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<br />Caroline Sapphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03644554499368633032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4059125073972294325.post-14912594004746009702012-02-24T20:00:00.001-08:002012-02-25T07:25:55.933-08:00sm♨ke<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f6b26b; color: #660000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">lingerin' up-</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f6b26b; color: #660000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">on a</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f6b26b; color: #660000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">land. a</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f6b26b; color: #660000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">land that</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f6b26b; color: #660000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">lies-li〪〭〫〬 es</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f6b26b; color: #660000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">open. open to</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f6b26b; color: #660000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">play, to</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f6b26b; color: #660000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ponder upon</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f6b26b; color: #660000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the sun's</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f6b26b; color: #660000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">fire♨♨</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f6b26b; color: #660000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">his fire that</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f6b26b; color: #660000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">scorns, that</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f6b26b; color: #660000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">sizzles e.a.c.h.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f6b26b; color: #660000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">golden follicle with</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f6b26b; color: #660000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">its fury, its</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f6b26b; color: #660000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">flame. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f6b26b; color: #660000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f6b26b; color: #660000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the flame-</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f6b26b; color: #660000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> it</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f6b26b; color: #660000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">fondles, it</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f6b26b; color: #660000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">fingers her</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f6b26b; color: #660000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">womb, her</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f6b26b; color: #660000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">woman, her</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f6b26b; color: #660000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">wobbly knees. un-</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f6b26b; color: #660000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f6b26b; color: #660000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">til it</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f6b26b; color: #660000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">burns, it</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f6b26b; color: #660000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">blackens </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f6b26b; color: #660000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">e.v.e.r.y.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f6b26b; color: #660000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">bristle of</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f6b26b; color: #660000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">her</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f6b26b;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">being.</span> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f6b26b;">♨♨</span></div>Caroline Sapphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03644554499368633032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4059125073972294325.post-23793432925238987162012-02-24T19:50:00.003-08:002012-02-25T07:24:11.039-08:00bloodstream.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a baby-a</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">blossoms into</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a f.u.l.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">l. fledged flower❀❀</span><br />
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</div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Big Caslon';">c</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Big Caslon';">alm cows sit, see<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: 'Big Caslon';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">& suckle<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: 'Big Caslon';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">the sticks that<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: 'Big Caslon';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">stand straight, that<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: 'Big Caslon';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">squeeze their<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: 'Big Caslon';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">obliques sideways to<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: 'Big Caslon';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">speak to the<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: 'Big Caslon';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;">Sun.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Big Caslon';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">w</span></span></b><span style="font-family: 'Big Caslon';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">eeds wobble &</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Big Caslon';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">sprouts spruce &</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Big Caslon';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">spray the</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Big Caslon';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">Spanish countryside with</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Big Caslon';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7;">the desert’s</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Big Caslon';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">color wheel.</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>Caroline Sapphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03644554499368633032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4059125073972294325.post-88301301343353774152011-06-04T18:05:00.000-07:002011-06-05T15:14:47.864-07:00Pieces<div style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: right;">Two hefty hens,</div><div style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: right;">hand-in-hand,</div><div style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: right;">matching halves</div><div style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: right;">of a heart: They</div><div style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: right;">harden and congeal</div><div style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: right;">into one timeless </div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">piece of art. </span></div>Caroline Sapphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03644554499368633032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4059125073972294325.post-3736188007391697552011-06-04T17:58:00.000-07:002011-10-05T16:33:17.803-07:00Boundaries<style>
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</div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 12pt;">sucking Sangria under</span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 12pt;">her brown brim straw</span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 12pt;">hat—she</span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 12pt;">surveys the</span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 12pt;">sky, the</span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 12pt;">salt, the</span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 12pt;">slithering</span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 12pt;">snakes, the</span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 12pt;">sassy seagulls</span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 12pt;">that saunter upon</span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 12pt;">the Sea's scenery--Her</span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 12pt;">sphere.</span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 12pt;">she observes</span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 12pt;">the slimy sun-</span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 12pt;">kissed king: strolling,</span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 12pt;">strutting into her</span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 12pt;">Mother--the</span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 12pt;">Sea.</span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 12pt;">the sly</span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 12pt;">slime</span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 12pt;">strokes and</span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 12pt;">strikes the</span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 12pt;">sultry Sea—</span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 12pt;">yet, She</span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 12pt;">sinks and</span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 12pt;">stashes Her</span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 12pt;">sacred</span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 12pt;">gems. he</span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 12pt;">tries to</span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 12pt;">smooth-talk the</span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 12pt;">sweet Sea’s</span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 12pt;">soft sails. he</span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 12pt;">tries to</span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 12pt;">suffocate Her</span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 12pt;">swirls, Her</span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 12pt;">swells. he</span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 12pt;">digs</span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 12pt;">deep---prodding,</span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 12pt;">stirring Her</span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 12pt;">surfs.</span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 12pt;">She sees</span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 12pt;">his</span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 12pt;">motive, his</span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 12pt;">silver-</span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 12pt;">tongued</span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Abadi MT Condensed Light'; font-size: 12pt;">talk.</span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; 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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Big Caslon"; font-size: 14pt;">Contents</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Big Caslon";">Preface iii</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Big Caslon";">Acknowledgements iv</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Academy Engraved LET"; font-size: 10pt;">Chapter 1: Black Sand</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Academy Engraved LET"; font-size: 10pt;">Black beads border the deep dark majestic p. 1-2</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Academy Engraved LET"; font-size: 10pt;">Torching toes toss the broken shells p. 2-3</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Academy Engraved LET"; font-size: 10pt;">Imposing cliffs surround p. 3-4</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Academy Engraved LET"; font-size: 10pt;">Mopeds, scooters, & bikes busy the black bustle p. 4-5</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Academy Engraved LET"; font-size: 10pt;">Diving deep, discovering the black floor p. 5-6</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Academy Engraved LET"; font-size: 10pt;">Turquoise, bold red fish illuminate the inky habitat p. 6-7</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Academy Engraved LET"; font-size: 10pt;">Creatures play along the black man’s floor p. 7</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Academy Engraved LET"; font-size: 10pt;">Underground flowers flit & flicker, while spear-grass grooves p. 8</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Academy Engraved LET"; font-size: 10pt;">Stray dogs romp & run-free p .8-9</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Academy Engraved LET"; font-size: 10pt;">Sandals, shoes, & towels are worn ‘round the feet p. 9-10</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Academy Engraved LET"; font-size: 10pt;">Champagne bottles pop, while dark men serve in black attire p. 10-11</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Academy Engraved LET"; font-size: 10pt;">Brave souls release their sandals & straddle the black man’s water p. 11-12</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Academy Engraved LET"; font-size: 10pt;">Black sand scorches, sizzles, & steams p. 12-13</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Academy Engraved LET"; font-size: 10pt;">Chapter 2: Red Sand</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Academy Engraved LET"; font-size: 10pt;">Crimson colors, streaks across the shoreline p. 13-14</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Academy Engraved LET"; font-size: 10pt;">The sea eats this bloody mess p. 14-15</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Academy Engraved LET"; font-size: 10pt;">A vast volcano encloses this scarlet paradise p. 15-16</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Academy Engraved LET"; font-size: 10pt;">From afar, a reddish pink serenity p. 16-17</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Academy Engraved LET"; font-size: 10pt;">Up close, rusty shell carcasses & rubyred wine bottles litter the land p. 17-18</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Academy Engraved LET"; font-size: 10pt;">Tan & topless enhances the image p. 18-19</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Academy Engraved LET"; font-size: 10pt;">Black bushes & pink layers exposed p. 19-20</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Academy Engraved LET"; font-size: 10pt;">hot, hot, hot-they say! this spacious swimming hole p. 20-21</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Academy Engraved LET"; font-size: 10pt;">The devil’s carroty Eden illustrates this red sphere, created by ash and fire p. 21-22</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Academy Engraved LET"; font-size: 10pt;">Red sand singes, scalds, & reddens p. 22-23</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Academy Engraved LET"; font-size: 10pt;">Copyright 2011 by Tennessee Technological University. All rights reserved.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Academy Engraved LET"; font-size: 10pt;">Printed in the U.S.A. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Academy Engraved LET"; font-size: 10pt;">ISBN: 0-546-123554-1</span></div>Caroline Sapphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03644554499368633032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4059125073972294325.post-11340007692741238022011-05-01T17:28:00.000-07:002011-05-01T17:28:22.879-07:00Sonnet Poem: Blossoms&Worms<style>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">To seek, follow, to find her love, she sought</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">And walked, wandered upon summits and cliffs</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">Peering, pursuing peeps of him; She fought</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">For signs, shadows, a mark: She lay---adrift. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">Her bloom blows beauty for the bees---dreamlike</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">At that hour, lighting the skies, the stars;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">Searching, she sparkles air and land, alike</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">Not beauty, nor bliss shall fill her jar.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">Alas! Withered away went her pretty</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">Petals wrinkling, wiggling, fading</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">From the once beautiful blossom; wormy</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">Beings warp her branches---she is outplayed. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neither the love, nor the lover she found,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And dried and drooped lay the petal---earthbound.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>Caroline Sapphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03644554499368633032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4059125073972294325.post-60854018442465034792011-04-13T16:55:00.000-07:002011-04-13T17:07:57.078-07:0013 Ways Poem: 13 Ways of Lookin' at a Clock<div class="Section1"><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face'; font-size: 14pt;">Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Clock<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face'; font-size: 12pt;"><br clear="ALL" style="mso-break-type: section-break; page-break-before: always;" /> </span> <br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">I<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">It shrieks! It<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">screams! The<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">Clock shouts<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">“Get up! Get<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">up!”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">II<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">The clock caught<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">Quentin Compson.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">Tied its <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">ticking, tocking<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">time to his<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">tan shoe---<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">tugged him down into<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">the Charles River.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">III<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">Crimson colors<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">the college ruled<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">sheet of paper that<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">dates 2/13/</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">08; </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">small </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">black </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">print</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">indicates that</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">it was<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">6:00 o’clock. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">IV<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">legs<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">spread<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">stirrup-style,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">forceps forcing<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">the forehead<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">forward. tug,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">tug: pop!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">It’s four o’clock. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">V<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">Each egg<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">coils with<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">cracks. Curling and<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">cracking each<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">creation as<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">the internal<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">clock continues<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">to tick.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">VI<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">A cold, hard<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">ebony barrel<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">holds my <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">temple<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">still. The clock<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">reads 10:26 <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">pm. He has<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">four minutes.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">VII<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">A clock rules<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">this family,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">At the ting-<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">They rise. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">At the tong-<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">They eat.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">At the tingtong-<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">The separate. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">VIII<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">12 numbers.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">2 stems. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">White. Black.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">Bland Colors.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">Plain. Simple. Yet<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">a clock is<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">king. Is </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">emperor. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">Is </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">karateka. It</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">can karate-<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">chop one’s<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';"> job, kick <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">one’s meetings, elbow </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">strike one’s </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">life if<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">one does not<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">follow it’s<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">calculated time. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">IX<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">Clocks<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">corrupt <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">leisure.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">Clocks contaminate<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">freedom.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">Clocks kill <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">liberation. Clocks<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">execute <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">true <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">existence. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">X<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">Time ticks,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">passes. The mother<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">glances, glares<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">at the gold-rimmed<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">clock. It’s <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">midnight. Angry,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">anxious,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">apprehensive:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">No sign<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">of her<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">daughter.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">XI<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">A cuckoo <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">bird coos at<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">noon! It <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">glides<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">from inside <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">its cuckoo <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">clock dwelling!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">XII<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">Each number added<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">numbs the <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">youth. Rubs the<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">adolescent aura from<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">the face. Each tick<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">clocks a <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">rigid line lapping<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">across the <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">face. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">XIII<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">When Earth’s orbit<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">reports to<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">the Clock at<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">365 days, this<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">little blue emerald <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">orb we <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">believe rules<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">the universe <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">and its<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">inhabitants—<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">obeys the<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">Clock’s </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">commands and<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face';">time<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face'; font-size: 12pt;">turns. </span>Caroline Sapphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03644554499368633032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4059125073972294325.post-26890379698210564432011-04-09T15:59:00.001-07:002011-04-09T15:59:43.699-07:00Syllabic Poem: Monkey B/a/r/s/<!--StartFragment--> <br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">A bold smoke bomb explodes<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"> in the twilight sky<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"> showering, slow<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"> kaleidoscope kisses<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"> spilling, splattering wishes<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">for the hungry, hollow human eye;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">It awakens from its<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"> submerged, seasoned sleep,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"> swelling from pits<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"> of dark, damp disregard---<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"> Consciously crawling! Bombard<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">its buried bubble, butting the b/a/r/s/<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">The orb absorbs, perceives<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"> the gaudy garnish<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"> glow and receives<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"> a merry memory:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"> Mount^i^n^g a sanctuary,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">to see the sunset, the sky’s sad smile.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">Spooky silhouettes scrape<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"> the dusky-dying<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"> day, while it rapes<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"> the forgotten fun-filled<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"> eves. The limbs, the boughs that peel<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">back, where one can swing, seesaw, or sway.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">Unconcerned, unconscious<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"> of the springtime scene,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"> subconsciously<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"> scared of shutting out these<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"> escapades. Memory flees<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">fast! Falling down! Forgetting---dark d*a*w*n*s*</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><!--EndFragment-->Caroline Sapphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03644554499368633032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4059125073972294325.post-6736193480159204842011-03-06T15:56:00.000-08:002011-03-06T16:08:22.071-08:00Anglo-Saxon Poem: The Solitary Sea<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Academy Engraved LET';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">The Solitary Sea<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Academy Engraved LET';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">Chirpy chipmunks chirp sassily<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Academy Engraved LET';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">from faraway fig trees;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Academy Engraved LET';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">beneath the blue sky, bees buzzzz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Academy Engraved LET';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">While wiggly, wee little girls whoop and wheeze,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Academy Engraved LET';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">gaily giggling, gagging gasping for air!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Academy Engraved LET';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">The sweet sisters sing swaying, saucily along!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Academy Engraved LET';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">The decisive dad deerstalkes his deer:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Academy Engraved LET';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">camouflaging colors, coughing, and cocking his rifle,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Academy Engraved LET';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">hushing his happy harpy girls: Layla and Lynn. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Academy Engraved LET';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">Hidden and hiding haunting the hills,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Academy Engraved LET';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">hand-in-hand hurdling the hares,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Academy Engraved LET';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">gliding, gracefully through glistening, glimmering grass!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Academy Engraved LET';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">Peeping and peeking from their private place,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Academy Engraved LET';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">concealed, contained covered and cloaked,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Academy Engraved LET';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">buried below </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Academy Engraved LET';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">green bundles of grass:</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Academy Engraved LET';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">Veiled, yet vivacious vexes their hunter!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Academy Engraved LET';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">A killer who kills for kicks, for sport!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Academy Engraved LET';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">A clatter, a clamor coming from green clovers!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Academy Engraved LET';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">A noisy noise noticed within a nifty nook.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Academy Engraved LET';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">Rapidly! Raising the rifle, it runs!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Academy Engraved LET';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">Slicing, slashing, slitting severing the green sea!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Academy Engraved LET';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">It stops. Suddenly, scratching the sea gate!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Academy Engraved LET';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">A piercing scream pierces the palmy day!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Academy Engraved LET';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">The hunter hungrily hunts for his prize.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Academy Engraved LET';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Academy Engraved LET';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">Searching, seeking he steps upon the scene.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Academy Engraved LET';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">Spying, spotting he spots, he sees:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Academy Engraved LET';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">He perceives the pierced, porous hole.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Academy Engraved LET';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">Penetrating and parting her pretty peel,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Academy Engraved LET';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">laying lackluster, lifeless lays--Layla.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Academy Engraved LET';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">Startled, stunned, staggering shock spills<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Academy Engraved LET';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">slowly slithering into slimy screams!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Academy Engraved LET';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">Lynn shrieks! Shouts aloud! Shrilling squeals!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Academy Engraved LET';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">The faulty father falls fast <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Academy Engraved LET';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">upon his knee. Kneeling, knowing, noticing<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Academy Engraved LET';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">the hole: Layla lays hopeless and hollow. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Academy Engraved LET';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">Her existence expired, extinct; departed, deceased, decreased. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>Caroline Sapphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03644554499368633032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4059125073972294325.post-17353802455989949562011-02-20T15:27:00.000-08:002011-02-20T15:27:02.730-08:00Maxim Poem: When in Rome (...)<!--StartFragment--> <br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">when in Rome…<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">do as the <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Romans do? do<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">indeed, invest the time in<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">debauchery! decadence shall<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">reign with overflowing <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">excess, indeed---<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">incoherency? Yes! Yes<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">please! indeed! with <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">glittergold nipples on<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">top spraying seeds of<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">grape through the<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">gold god stuck in---<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">limbo. between good and<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">better! eat the<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">meat! tear into <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">the hare! suck <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">the duck down to<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">its last---<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">fuck the <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">girl, the<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">boy! Or both Or<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">twice! Or the<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">man with the slithering<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">tongue with scratches down---<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">the slender curve, sliding into<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">the worship room, worship the<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">party thrower, gayest gal, the<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">beatific bombshell, the<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">frisky frolicsome Ram of<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Rome---<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Surely, this makes one<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">happy? Yes! Yes! Yes?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">indeed! razor-sliced<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">emotions, forgotten eves, plump with <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">pestilence, rotten to the<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">inner core with bubbling blisters---<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">but do, do as the <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Romans do. Enjoy! Enjoy<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">the vibrancy, the views, the<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">harpy happy melodies! the<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">harmonies, the arts, the<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">affluence, the architecture---<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">pose! model-like for<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Michelangelo—be a <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Pope popper! slip<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">swan-like in the <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Sistine! feast with the<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">fatties---<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">race with the robust <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Stallions! be <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">intrigued! relish the<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">atmosphere! passion in<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">the air! party play with the<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">thespian, the musician, the persona---<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">of the Roman. So do, do <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">as the Romans do<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">who cares if <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">coherency never <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">knocks—open the <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">gate—jump into--- <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">the Tiber! squirting, sporting, and<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">sprouting Roman <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">horns! splash in the<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Sea! the Sea swarming with<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">silly sinners who<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">gobble the guts! prance—<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">periodically past<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">the Colosseum, the <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Vatican! guzzle each<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">gulp of the goblet’s<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">last drop until<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">you--YES YOU--do as the Romans do!</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><!--EndFragment-->Caroline Sapphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03644554499368633032noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4059125073972294325.post-44341177955082537592011-02-20T15:24:00.000-08:002011-02-21T10:20:51.616-08:00Photograph Poem: FairyLand<div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">❤FairyLand❤</span></b></span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;"><br />
</span> </b></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">One will see Neverland over the horizon! Remember to be watchful and very wary of Pirates, Indians, and Crocodiles<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">!</span></span></b></span></i></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;"><br />
</span> </span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">Behind the blue-violet</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">turf! What must it be? What</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">exists beyond the tall turquoise </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">spheres? Why, wee little</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">fairies! Who hop, pop, and</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">romp ‘round the</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">ordinary observer who</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">only beholds his garden-variety</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">world. No</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">imagination! Only</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">rationalization! Developed,</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">Ripe! Mature with</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">Age! But----</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 13.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;"><br />
</span> </span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">to the Believer, to the</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">Dreamer, the one who</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">will imagine, create his own</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">air castles, he who</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">perceives the magical realm, the</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">enchanting Land of </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">Fairies! Oh! Oh</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">Yes! The kingdom of </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">sparkling sprites, perky pixies, and </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">intriguing imps! The domain of </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">beings that shun malice and </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">gloom! Who exist to be</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">happy!</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 13.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;"><br />
</span> </span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">To make little</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">happies here, there, and every</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">little where! upon this </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">apple orchard! on this</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">elephant ear! on this</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">blooming daffodil! these </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">lovely beings love</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">bestowing gifts of </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">merriment! mirth! nonsense! and </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">cheer! To every tiny tot, to</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;"> every Believer this </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">daydream, this figment of </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">fantasy, Exists---</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 13.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;"><br />
</span> </span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">The Daydreamer observes</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">the chubby, the </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">lanky, the ebony, the</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">ivory beings who </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">mix colors and create a</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">chirpy coexistence! He </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">who looks to his </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">right, gawks at the</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">golden glittered wings sprouting of</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">sunshine, which </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">seep through the</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">dreary day, the </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">Dark Reality! </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 13.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;"><br />
</span> </span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">Queen Fairy flies</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">upon her </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">domestic dove, overseeing</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">her minions! She</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">chirps to “Play a </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">prank on Peter! Warble a</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">lovely lullaby to </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">Lucy! And remember that</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">nine hundred ninety-three </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">new Nymphs will </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">arrive today! Give</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">thanks to the </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">Babyborn Giggles!”</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 13.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;"><br />
</span> </span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">The whimsical Beholder </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">senses the </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">frolicking fairies, sparkling in </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">the Sun’s shine, hiding upon</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">hearing pitter patters, </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">footsteps! remaining </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">unnoticed by </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">the Commoner, the </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">Grown-up. Hidden </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">among the hills, along </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">the Childlike, the </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">Pure </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">terrain!</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 13.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;"><br />
</span> </span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">FairyLand:</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">where the</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">honeycream glow </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">glimmers, where</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">happiness lies in </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">the Imagination!</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">Bear in mind! Consider</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">that to exist in a</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">dreamlike Utopia, one</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">only needs to</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">Believe, to</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">Dream, to </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">Imagine---</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 13.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;"><br />
</span> </span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">And you, too </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">might</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">witness, might</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">envision the </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">Land of the </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">Fairies. </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">For the</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">Dreamers, the </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">Conjures of </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">faraway </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">Castles, Lands, and</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">magical Spheres, recollect</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">the Queen’s Directions:</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 13.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">Two steps past </span></i></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">the sapphirelavender</span></i></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">grass, three</span></i></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">hops on</span></i></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">the right, one </span></i></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">leap to </span></i></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">the </span></i></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">left! Gather the</span></i></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">Pixie Dust under </span></i></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">the Garden Gnome! </span></i></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">Think</span></i></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">Happy Thoughts and</span></i></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">Believe!</span></i></div><div style="font: 11.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 13.0px; text-align: center;"><i></i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">This poem was based upon a picture I took at the Chihuly exhibit in Nashville, Tennessee. </span></b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC TT-Bold';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Savior</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC TT-Bold';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">i Promise, i’m better. i’m fixed, mom. really <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC TT-Bold';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">i’m complete. i don’t give a shit about<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC TT-Bold';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">it anymore. i’m Saved. the lord, he helped, helped me to<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC TT-Bold';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">find my way. i hated myself. you. dad. laura. but<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC TT-Bold';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">i forgive you. I forgive you, dad, and the assholes who<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC TT-Bold';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">gave me that shit. i forgive you for <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC TT-Bold';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">giving me money to blow, all the cars, and for<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC TT-Bold';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">indulgin’ in whatever i wanted. I forgive you.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC TT-Bold';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">i’m completely better. i Swear. just because i’m back in<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC TT-Bold';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">asheville doesn’t mean that i’ll go back to <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC TT-Bold';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">snortin’ or stealin’ again. god helped Me. he<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC TT-Bold';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">saved Me. teen challenge really worked. it did, i<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC TT-Bold';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Promise. i won’t ever go back to where i was. ever.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC TT-Bold';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">through prayer, my forgiveness, and my family, i’ll<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC TT-Bold';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">make it. i will. god is in my soul. he’s in my<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC TT-Bold';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">spirit. he’s in my life. i feel his power. his love. I Promise. but<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC TT-Bold';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">i’m dying for a smoke. just one cigarette. ya know, they never<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC TT-Bold';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">let me have one smoke. not one. i really<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC TT-Bold';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">need one. just one smoke, mom. a cigrette has nothin’ to<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC TT-Bold';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">do with drugs. it’s legal. it’s fine. i just really need one. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC TT-Bold';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">i really need a smoke, mom. really. i do. can I borrow <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC TT-Bold';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">some money? just to buy a pack of smokes. can i take the car? just <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC TT-Bold';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">once. It’s not a big deal, mom. it’s a pack of <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC TT-Bold';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">fuckin’ cigrettes. just let me borrow the car. please. I’m <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC TT-Bold';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">twenty-six years old. i can make my own fuckin’ <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC TT-Bold';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">decisions. remember, mom. god is with me. he won’t let <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC TT-Bold';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">anything happen. i really need some smokes. i know i haven’t <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC TT-Bold';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">smoked in thirteen months. I fuckin’ know this. that’s<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC TT-Bold';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">why i need one. puhleaze? remember, i’m fixed. I don’t need it <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC TT-Bold';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">anymore. i’ll be back in fifteen minutes. just fifteen </span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC TT-Bold';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">minutes, mom.</span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC TT-Bold';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC TT-Bold';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">with “time” on the radio, the windows rolled<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">down. The gas station was in sight. five minutes from<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">home. lounged back in the hot leather seats, Palace Place flies<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">by the passenger side window. a notable beat up<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">ford taurus sits in the parking lot. in the cracked cement <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">spot. waiting. watching. waiting for the borrowed car to<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">arrive. to pull up. to park in the empty space, waiting for<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">the borrowed car to sit in its fated destination. the borrowed car<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">arrives in its former spot. one time won’t hurt. one line won’t<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">hurt me. god will save Me. one little white line. checkin’<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">the glove compartment. secret stash? two twenties located. in case of an <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">emergency. well, this is kinda of an emergency. no harm in takin’ it. she won’t <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">miss it. it’s an emergency situation. just this once. I need <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">it. the borrowed car door slams. softly. almost <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">silently. sneaking. shadow-like to the broken door frame. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Cracked;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">the sky shines behind the borrowed car driver’s back. The gilded sphere smiles at <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Cracked;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">the bleak building when the loud knock interrupts the<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Cracked;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Sun’s smirk. the gray paint crumbles upon the<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Cracked;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">fresh leather shoes as the owner of the room meets the leathershoe-tapper at his <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Cracked;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">door. a snaggle-toothed forty-one year old answers the<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Cracked;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">tap. grinning, he welcomes his long lost pal in<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Cracked;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">the room. the one room square. filled with a<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Cracked;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">rotting stench. with cascading cans, apple carcasses, and <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Cracked;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">sparse but scattered soiled furniture decorate the swinish <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Cracked;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">dwelling. “long time, no see, buddy.” yeah, i’ve<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Cracked;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">been outta town. but, I’m back. was gonna see how ya were. “alright, kid, I’m<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Cracked;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">good, been good. You got any cash on ya?” yeah, a little bit. “well, welcome back to <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Cracked;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">fairyland, brotha. i think i got exactly whacha ya need.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Cracked;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">the gray door closes behind the borrowed sedan and the ford taurus. both, sitting <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Cracked;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">in the shine of the Sun. waiting. waiting for the leathershoe-tapper. waiting for <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Cracked;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">the savior that never comes. waiting for the<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Cracked;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Park Place guest that departs too late. the Sun already said his<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Cracked;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“goodbye.” the borrowed sedan lingers. loitering within its space. waiting. waiting<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Cracked;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">the borrowed sedan hears the leather taps of footsteps. swayin’ along the<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Cracked;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">cracked surface. the borrowed sedan hears his owner’s son slump into <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Cracked;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">his seat. sitting, slumpin’, slurrin’. slurrin’ something. the borrowed sedan <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Cracked;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">staggers home in the moonlight. without a twinkle of a star. without the<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Cracked;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Sun shining. without a glimmer. without arriving in its spot in the McAlister’s garage until<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Cracked;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">well over the Promised fifteen minutes. the borrowed sedan lurches <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Cracked;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">into its hole. in the shadows. in the pitch-black eve, it withdraws.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Cracked;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Cracked; font-size: 14pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><br />
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</div></b></span></div>Caroline Sapphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03644554499368633032noreply@blogger.com0