No louder than the snoring tigers lolling tongue!
By Mark Heathcote
Thu, 17 Nov 2011
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O’ my sleeping; weeping, thoughts.
Were like army blankets, you and I
observing; naught but sunbeams...
Naught...
But the lintel iron moonbeams,
under—which no one listens.
Nor speaks—but gibberish
No one sleeps, no one, dreams.
But even so’ it’s a sentry’s landscape
that’s foolhardy bold as any heaven
that’s nonsensical, as any song,
Sung in rhyme—one learns to love.
(That’s as still, as any silence
Hammering... in the darkened thereafter.)
“My own horrors anthem shot shall roar an alarm”...
No louder than the snoring tigers lolling tongue!
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Mark, I enjoyed this poem
Mark, I enjoyed this poem even though it got away from me in the last stanza.
But that's not the point.
The point is the quality of the poetic language and this has it in abundance.
"But the lintel iron moonbeams" ...... Smashing.
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Yes this is very good Mark .
Yes this is very good Mark . I just don't understand the punctuation? I'd take another look at it if I were you!
;)Pia
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Highhat is right the dreaded
Highhat is right the dreaded apostrophe.
Check second line first stanza, "we're” means "we are" whereas I think that you mean to say "were"
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