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Re: Poppy beat poet symmetry
Posted By: Nyperold, on host 205.216.76.83
Date: Tuesday, November 28, 2000, at 09:03:37
In Reply To: Re: Poppy beat poet symmetry posted by Kiki on Monday, November 27, 2000, at 20:34:05:

> > > Speaking of poetry, I wrote two new ones, which is good cause i hadn't had any inspiration since August and I was getting worried and they're good poems! Anyone care for me to post?
> > >
> > > Ki"conspiracy? I think not..."ki
> >
> > Kiki! Need you even ask.... YES! POST! PLEASE DO!
> >
> > :-)
>
> Well then... Neither has a title as of yet, and neither of the two people who have read them has been able to tell what they were about... but I like them. Any comments are welcome.... although if they're of any deep nature, I'd prefer them to be emailed.
>
> Poem#1
>
> An impenetrable fortress
> Falls
> Leaving an idyllic world
> In shambles
> The city rebuilt
> Will never be as strong
> The new walls -
> Needed to keep out
> The savage unknown
> And therefore
> Hastily erected -
> Are weaker
> More easily breached
> Eventually
> That which is left
> Is not worth
> The energy of rebuilding
> And a once respected citadel
> Decays
>
> Unless
> The time is taken
> To prevent new weakness
> And old faults
> Are corrected
> And long-term growth
> Is placed before
> Short-term safety
>
> But who has time
> To bother with that?
>
>
> Poem#2
>
> Forgiveness and trust
> Are entirely different things
> Quintessentially Pandora
> The untouchable is touched
> Raving demons released
> To the leer
> Of the punishing world.
> What's done is done.
> Yes,
> But can you
> Will you forget?
> Grasp for the one
> Beam of hope
> Did it fly away
> With the rest?
> Was it ever there at all?
> The apple has browned
> The shadows lengthen
> Our appointment ends
> Unless you call them back
> Is it too late
> For a simple apology?
>
>
> Ki"poetess"ki

I understand those. At least, I think I do. :) Very well written.

Nyperold

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