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Fable

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One fabulous fabled night,

Deep in the greenwood,

A famous wizard gave us a story without meaning:

Or so it then seemed. At the time

I had parted with my half-secret self,

My twin, embedded in my heart,

But the wizard's prayer awoke me in thin air

Drove us apart,

Tears stained my cheeks. I was no longer meek and mild.

No longer a child.

My heart was broken, like that of a man,  and I became fierce and bold. 

In my left hand I carried the stain of a fabled name, until death stole my soul away

I became a writer of fresh black words in a theatre of the absurd

The magician's prayer awoke my tears. Mary mother of God help me for I have sinned.

She was not a stepmother of a King, but a wild child, a woman of the woods,

Without jewels or a 'roof,' her son created deadly  desires, his prayer awoke my tears.

(The most recent, the finest of them all, the end of years.)

 

 

 

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victoriavautaw@gmail.com

Mon 28th Sep 2020 22:50

Another bow to the poetry king. Your words are an adventure! ?

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John Marks

Mon 28th Sep 2020 22:44

Thank you Eric, Paul and Stephen G. Also, thanks to your goodself, Stephen A. I think if a poem can be summarised then it's not a poem, just chopped up prose. Sometimes, I just let the words come to me, my job is to put them in order.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. TS Eliot


The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

T S Eliot

And, yes, Paul, music is the highest of the arts, because it is the most abstract.


There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

TS Eliot






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Stephen Atkinson

Mon 28th Sep 2020 17:17

Not sure what it's about John, but I love it! ?. I'll have to read it a few more times to let it sink in..

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