GREAT GODS.

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dadio
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GREAT GODS.

Post by dadio » December 16th, 2010, 2:55 pm

Great gods, Miss Pretty sighs,
Burning her nights with candle deaths,
Signing names, forgotten words,

Making worse the matters done,
Which, being lost in half-dumb shows,
Torment her in her vacant hours.

She has the ghostly figures now.
The viable is not for show.
She has her beauty on a string,

Which, being played for a half a song,
Moves her towards the better things
And all the songs her dead one sings.
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Re: GREAT GODS.

Post by dadio » December 16th, 2010, 2:56 pm

Old poem of mine revived.
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Re: GREAT GODS.

Post by joel » December 16th, 2010, 3:15 pm

I like this a lot...and really like the pairing with the painting...good!
"Every genuinely religious person is a heretic, and therefore a revolutionary" -- GBShaw
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Re: GREAT GODS.

Post by dadio » December 16th, 2010, 3:57 pm

Thank you, Joel.
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