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I Sat Upon the Moonlit Night


i slept upon the moonlit night

i sat at where the shadows warm

the darkness felt the coldness numb

and fell upon my wounded arm

 

i sat upon the windows sky

i ate the anger from my tears

and years of love informed my cry

and hate the burning stench of years

 

i bathed in starry'd blues beheld

i raped the smiles of looming builds

the ache of art had smoothed the blade

that smelled of carcass rot decayed

 

i weeped in slowly salty breath

the looming towered arrow flies

and knowing love consumed by death

gives sound to trumpet blooming dies

 

i sat upon the death of night

as one sits lonely on a throne

to ponder living conscience what

the rosy thorn hath always known


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I hereby render unto you the Dayly Poet of the Day Award for this here TPMCafe site, given to all of you from all of me.

This is a very fine poem. I can see why you describe yourself as an author.

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Agreed, Dick. The first lines of every verse really struck me.

"i weeped in slowly salty breath"

Wonderful.

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life is short, art is longing.

I love your poem.

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  • Website: josephwood0.tripod.com
  • Location Upper Louisiana Territory--St. Louis
  • Party Independant
  • Politics Whatever changes the miserable conditions that exist on this planet.

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  • Favorite Blogs Since you don't ask me about my "favorite movies," I'll just tell you. "Grapes of Wrath," "On the Waterfront," and "Paths of Glory."
  • Favorite Books Bartleby the Scrivener, Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
  • Favorite Quotes This Machine Kills Facists -BY Woody Guthrie Money don't matter, when you' free Bend yourself towards Justice -Both of them by me

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Professor M. M. Quimby began in 1952 his program for elementary uses for Thermos Technology, and became the sole inventor of No. 5 Electronic Skin Salve. Joe Wood, however, is an artist/author in St. Louis, MO.

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