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'Neath the Faucet
Contributed by
screwge
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Monday, 26th May 2008 @ 04:30:38 AM in AEST
Topic:
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You enable the faucet over my head.
At first, just a disparaging trickle
Of limping love, like vain beads.
The water is warm, then cold, always fickle.
It hits my head, diffracts in a million directions,
And I am laughing in its spell. You're a wizard.
I run with many foolish, unruly streams,
Ideas and fantasies stirred.
Had you frozen this frame, it would be stoic --
True to me. There would be joy to dispense,
Droplets sanguineous, emancipated,
And even in the lens.
But the mechanisms inside this camera
Are ever cool and still -- some nonchalant chips
That mash up videos with verisimilitude --
And are shedding their blips.
Now I am all wet in the cataract!
You are dry, with the crown of machine.
Water beads hit the lake-surface
And are worked into the sheen.
Above, the faucet channels light.
I yell, It hurts my eyes! reduced to wisp.
This blunderbuss awakens me,
My pupils small and crisp.
But, protested so many times,
Maybe ten, per se, a hundred,
This proven persiflage
Only lessens your dread.
And you turn the faucet off --
Detached, like bored kin,
With the drops, the lights still amok
And my head in spin.
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screwge
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2008-05-26 04:30:38]
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Re: 'Neath the Faucet
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by shelby on
Monday, 26th May 2008 @ 12:10:19 PM AEST
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Of limping love like vain beads....... I loved the word play in this line.. For that matter the entire write.
This was thought out and insightful, depth of soul.
I give this a 5 star!
~Michelle~
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Re: 'Neath the Faucet
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by holy on
Tuesday, 27th May 2008 @ 12:45:47 AM AEST
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| Reading your poem, I almost can hear the sound of water, it is colourful as flowers...... |
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