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The love that is not love
Contributed by
iodinelove
on
Friday, 23rd December 2005 @ 01:02:49 PM in AEST
Topic:
abstract
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The door opened into a bone white sky.
We stepped through.
Two weeks:
My beard is rugged filthy red and brown.
My socks stink.
I have found a love that is not love.
A simple song singing silence in my throat.
I have spoken and have been spoken to.
The old black drunk taking pennies from a jar.
The cold, cold shadows dripping shadows from the stars.
The world is far too large.
It is in the smallest moments that I am consumed.
How are the mists of Main that I have never seen?
How are the rivers of Africa that I can see again?
How I would love to see with young, young eyes,
and know the things I cannot know.
It is in my love that is not love
that comes my simple test.
Let dirty beard and filthy eyes
stay the screen that shatters me.
Let laughter be my voice
my only voice
that I cannot clip the wings
of the love that is not love
that flatters me
and creeps upon my thought
a leopard in the snow.
I am shadow to my friends
I am silent to my loves
and cutting tongues
to calm the rivers edge.
I am alone and am consumed
by what I cannot be.
Copyright ©
iodinelove
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2005-12-23 13:02:49]
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Re: The love that is not love
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by lostrelic on
Friday, 23rd December 2005 @ 03:50:53 PM AEST
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would be an exellant song great write
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Re: The love that is not love
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by outlaw_mutiny on
Saturday, 24th December 2005 @ 01:10:07 PM AEST
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nice write it was unique
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Re: The love that is not love
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by Fionndruinne on
Saturday, 24th December 2005 @ 09:13:03 PM AEST
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This is quite powerful. I found the language very moving, and the alliteration was used with real class.
Thought-provoking, and overall excellent. It was a pleasure to read.
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