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empty fields.
this isn't what it used to be. we sat behind this window and we could see that tree outside.
they told me how the tree survived the war. now i don't know where you are anymore.
there are ghosts outside my room. and curtains are burned out. so i guess i told you that.
i've been talking in my sleep again. you were gone in the morning. pillowcase not dry.
i wish i could make winds. i wish there was some horses here in these empty fields.
neighbours aren't home. this is all a dream.

I am so brittle

I am so brittle I could crack
and fall in pieces at your feet.
Sweep me off into the corner -
all I want to do is sleep.

I am so hollow I could melt
into a smaller puddle than
you might expect to see.
No need to step on me -
I only want to sleep.

Is there a code I have to crack,
is there a solid I should melt?
Give me the key and raise the heat -
let me sleep!

gone ripplingwhere hope dies weeping
weathered tears of cold decay
impervious beauty springs
in radiant cascades

clad in a lucent mist
veiled silence that commands
a furtive resurrection
of warbling promise

unwitting splendor caught
in a fluid moment, trancelike.

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un-gaggedWords rattle and hiss
snakelike rivers twisting, jousting
silenced knots that would defy
the very sword of Damocles,
tongue-sharp and flesh-thirsty.

Smothered flow, refused exodus
(like a circumscribed sky)
music-less and cramped
between the whimper and the howl;
foul and violent the taste
of muse's suffocation.

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ode to crueltyby *Piarvi-Recherreen

Literature / Poetry / Transgressive / Visual & Found Poetry

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from a translation of "châtiment de l'orgueil" by charles baudelaire

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~TheTragicOffense Feb 14, 2012 Hobbyist Writer

I really like the ominous feel this has. Great job.

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*Piarvi-Recherreen Feb 15, 2012

thank you

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*HaruNiji Jan 26, 2012 Professional Photographer

Your beautiful work has been features in my journal [link]

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*Piarvi-Recherreen Jan 27, 2012

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~Piscesandthediamonds Jan 24, 2012 Hobbyist Writer

ohh

love this and a bit of baudelaire

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*Piarvi-Recherreen Jan 24, 2012

thanks a lot ... glad you like baudelaire ... do you know arthur rimbaud too, he's my favourite poet ?

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~Piscesandthediamonds Feb 9, 2012 Hobbyist Writer

i don't know rimbaud - could you point me in the direction of a few good poems of his?

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*Piarvi-Recherreen Feb 10, 2012

hmmm you'll find a translation of "l'éternité" ("eternity") here : [link]

and a translation of "le bateau ivre" ("the drunken boat") here : [link]

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~Piscesandthediamonds Feb 24, 2012 Hobbyist Writer

thanks so much

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*Piarvi-Recherreen Feb 24, 2012

^___^

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