War

AliAli Posts: 2,621
edited February 2006 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
Men wearing hats
With a purpose
vs.
Women with shortened looks
and looking glasses,
(like the one my father used to buy me when I was young).
Misinterpretation and illegitimate writings
powerful yet domineering ambitious inventions
and a scar on my leg,
not from a skateboard,
but from a concrete wall I ran into.
Oh yea,someday I will heal my scarred womb,
but for now, all I can do is Wormwood.

adevc2006
A whisper and a thrill
A whisper and a chill
adv2005

"Why do I bother?"
The 11th Commandment.
"Whatever"

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  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Wormwood. That's from Hamlet. When Hamlet smells corrruption afoot among the elders.


    Clever girl, Alli. Don't stop fighting. You have friends and supporters.
  • "and a scar on my leg,
    not from a skateboard,
    but from a concrete wall I ran into."

    i like this a lot and i think it's a great little extended metaphor/simile/ figurative expression of war.

    i'm going to tinker with it again if time permits, i just tarried while tinkering and my post disappeared.

    ali's war

    this new war is like that old scar.
    it didn't from stepping onto a skateboard,
    but from hitting a concrete wall.
  • this is why to tarry is sometimes tragic, not magic, in poetry

    i meant "didn't come."

    all the same i like the metaphor/simile/figurative expression of war as a scar that comes from hitting the wall not stepping onto the skateboard

    :)
  • AliAli Posts: 2,621
    Beautiful.

    :D
    A whisper and a thrill
    A whisper and a chill
    adv2005

    "Why do I bother?"
    The 11th Commandment.
    "Whatever"

    PETITION TO STOP THE BAN OF SMOKING IN BARS IN THE UNITED STATES....Anyone?
  • Wormwood. That's from Hamlet. When Hamlet smells corrruption afoot among the elders.


    Clever girl, Alli. Don't stop fighting. You have friends and supporters.

    It's also the psychotropic ingredient fermented in absyinthe
  • AliAli Posts: 2,621
    It's also the psychotropic ingredient fermented in absyinthe
    I'm sorry,Steve,yet your words are too big for the everyday person.
    I would take it that's part of my psychotropic,disadvantaged mind,
    at the current time.

    Too busy looking up art.
    A whisper and a thrill
    A whisper and a chill
    adv2005

    "Why do I bother?"
    The 11th Commandment.
    "Whatever"

    PETITION TO STOP THE BAN OF SMOKING IN BARS IN THE UNITED STATES....Anyone?
  • AliAli Posts: 2,621
    Wormwood. That's from Hamlet. When Hamlet smells corrruption afoot among the elders.


    Clever girl, Alli. Don't stop fighting. You have friends and supporters.
    Actually,
    Its from the bibble.
    A whisper and a thrill
    A whisper and a chill
    adv2005

    "Why do I bother?"
    The 11th Commandment.
    "Whatever"

    PETITION TO STOP THE BAN OF SMOKING IN BARS IN THE UNITED STATES....Anyone?
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Player Queen: O, confound the rest!
    Such love must needs be treason in my breast.
    When second husband let me be accurst!
    None wed the second but who killed the first.
    Hamlet: Aside. Wormwood, wormwood!
  • AliAli Posts: 2,621
    Player Queen: O, confound the rest!
    Such love must needs be treason in my breast.
    When second husband let me be accurst!
    None wed the second but who killed the first.
    Hamlet: Aside. Wormwood, wormwood!
    American poem:

    He shall never be mine.
    For hatred for the treason
    played upon me,
    and the test that I have be confounded to,
    makes me despise them in my heart.
    For I am simple,
    and I dance when I am alone,
    saring at Wormwood into the starry sky.
    I love him so,
    yet he defends me not.
    I will cry until;
    In the distance,
    I am rescued.
    A whisper and a thrill
    A whisper and a chill
    adv2005

    "Why do I bother?"
    The 11th Commandment.
    "Whatever"

    PETITION TO STOP THE BAN OF SMOKING IN BARS IN THE UNITED STATES....Anyone?
  • I like it :-)
    I'll be back
  • Ali wrote:
    I'm sorry,Steve,yet your words are too big for the everyday person.
    I would take it that's part of my psychotropic,disadvantaged mind,
    at the current time.

    Too busy looking up art.

    my apologies, that was a mouthful, I was just commenting, that wormwood is the drug in a liquor called absynthe that makes you hallucinate is all.

    Supposedly a favorite past time of van gogh, speaking of art.
  • It's also the psychotropic ingredient fermented in absyinthe


    More specifically thujone. True absinthe contains calamus and parsley, both of which contain tujone, and magnify the effects of the chemical.

    Absinthe is fun. (but not the crap you buy in north america)
    The only thing I enjoy is having no feelings....being numb rocks!

    And I won't make the same mistakes
    (Because I know)
    Because I know how much time that wastes
    (And function)
    Function is the key
  • More specifically thujone. True absinthe contains calamus and parsley, both of which contain tujone, and magnify the effects of the chemical.

    Absinthe is fun. (but not the crap you buy in north america)

    You can't even get real absinthe in Prague anymore unless you do a lot of searching, the last real bottle I had came from a friend in Moscow
  • AliAli Posts: 2,621
    Thank you Ladies and Gentlemen.
    A whisper and a thrill
    A whisper and a chill
    adv2005

    "Why do I bother?"
    The 11th Commandment.
    "Whatever"

    PETITION TO STOP THE BAN OF SMOKING IN BARS IN THE UNITED STATES....Anyone?
  • You can't even get real absinthe in Prague anymore unless you do a lot of searching, the last real bottle I had came from a friend in Moscow


    la fee is not bad, but suisse la bleue #2 is uber. its got 1000 ppm content, but is hard to get a hold of.
    The only thing I enjoy is having no feelings....being numb rocks!

    And I won't make the same mistakes
    (Because I know)
    Because I know how much time that wastes
    (And function)
    Function is the key
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