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    • dragonpsyche
    • is deliberating between sleep and wakefulness...it's quite a conundrum.

    Poem Commentary

    To a man who may never know his beauty. To a man who is flawed in his doubt. To a man whose words shall always haunt me, to know that he is fearful and tender and deep. To a man who ought to know better than to doubt what was given to him by GOD. May he bless you in your life and ease your soul for you are perfection and you are loved and admired for everything the world over. The stars weep to hear such dischord bleed from the lips of a beautiful man.

    To my hero. May he always know who he is.

    VII

    I.
    He said he didn't like his face, his hair to hide what was perfect.
    The brown of his eyes, alight
    Wild spirits and the cosmic soul brimming out so brightly.

    II.
    What was whole has now broken, cracked like pavement under summer skies.
    The world was thirsty to taste what bled;
    From his palms, from his heart, from his head.

    III.
    He was beautiful and darkly enticing, the moon in his heart and his body.
    Cancerous blessing that arose in the ninth of July,
    Blooming with fervor and eccentricity.

    IV.
    He said he didn't like his face, his soul to bear what was perfect.
    Mighty beauty and heavenly voice to fill the hearts who were willing;
    Revelating blood to the bloodless scores of the many...

    V.
    Seventh to the stars and immaculate to the heavenly skies, his hands borne with wings.
    The angels who filled his head with blessings and chants of memories;
    How they yearned to see him fly...how our prayers had filled the skies!

    VI.
    As the sun is golden in his realm and the stars unfold with unrivaled ease,
    So this man, with unequivocal brand, can rattle and tremble the soul to breaking;
    So can this man, destined to fly, be human and mortal and waking...

    VII.
    He said he didn't like his face, his heart overflowing with immaculate truth.
    I pray on this score to the lost tribes of yore and the hapless thorn, may they bury their spirits in deeply.
    For the son of song and this man of God is perfection filled with all earthly beauty.
    VII by ~dragonpsyche

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    cmlestrade commented on VII

    10-01-2009

    This has to be my favorite of all the poems I've read of yours so far. Notice I said so far because I know you will outdo yourself after this. Theme ,meter,similes, metaphor, all perfect.

    Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

    T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) American-English poet and playwright.

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