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Kings and Queens and Guillotines
Contributed by
mdmorash
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Friday, 4th June 2004 @ 12:00:45 PM in AEST
Topic:
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Kings and queens and guillotines
Broken bones and rotting spleens
Short the days and long the nights
Waiting for the dawning light
Cells are thick with putrid air
Nothing left does no one care
Yesterday they led the world
Into hell now they�ve been hurled
Peasants who�ve been brutalized
Starved and poor they�ve realized
Watching there they see the ones
Who�s knotted lies they have undone
Gallows fade into the past
Blades of steel have come at last
Mademoiselle opens her arms
Caressing necks that have done wrong
Dreams of freedom realized
But evil now has been disguised
Transferred from one to the next
It�s in the words just read the text
Revolution is the price
Of standing on the back of right
But replacing like with tyranny
Breeds nothing more than misery
The price that�s paid is never cheep
So promises you have to keep
Lead the old into the new
And to the dead you must be true
Kings and queens and guillotines
Never lose what you have seen
Never slip and don�t forget
Treachery�s paid with regret
Michael David Morash
Copyright � 2003
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mdmorash
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2004-06-04 12:00:45]
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Re: Kings and Queens and Guillotines
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by pixie on
Friday, 4th June 2004 @ 12:14:12 PM AEST
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This was good, different and creative
pixie xx |
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Re: Kings and Queens and Guillotines
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by Vermillion on
Friday, 4th June 2004 @ 12:17:29 PM AEST
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few people can pull off telling a vivid fictional story thru rythem and rhyme.but you pulled it off splendedly.excellent,good job, great read.
~vermillion~ |
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Re: Kings and Queens and Guillotines
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by Essentially9 on
Monday, 28th June 2004 @ 11:25:50 PM AEST
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| so true and such an excellent piece. this piece evoked many images from england and france, and how the death sentence was used in all the stages of revolution by the old regime and the new ones at times. |
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Re: Kings and Queens and Guillotines
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by buchi on
Thursday, 1st July 2004 @ 11:26:16 AM AEST
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,,,,,,,,The price that�s paid is never cheep
......spelling error again...or is cheep cheep like a birdie cheeps...amazing |
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