tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88200097058159916502024-02-20T01:59:57.967-08:00Ornately Pampered BeginningsThe work of writer Rachel CRachel C- Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08071084511912646636noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8820009705815991650.post-1437127917133385512013-01-23T09:09:00.000-08:002013-01-23T09:09:18.769-08:00Bunny Foot<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Your rabbit foot<br />
no longer brings you luck<br />
your expensive lighter<br />
ran out of gas<br />
the place we used to sit<br />
burned down<br />
you were using matches again<br />
we are stupid little broken things<br />
scratchy little niggles on<br />
The smooth skin<br />
the red raw patch that itches<br />
all through the neon night<br />
you lost your lucky charm<br />
we had to walk home<br />
stumbling drenched<br />
bunnies in the rain<br />
I found the bunny foot<br />
down the back of the sofa<br />
and I found your wedding ring.<br />
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Rachel C- Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08071084511912646636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8820009705815991650.post-19277967274936986812012-12-17T13:07:00.000-08:002012-12-17T13:07:52.063-08:00POEM OF THE WEEK<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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(from <cite>Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There</cite>, 1872)`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves<br /> Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:<br />All mimsy were the borogoves,<br /> And the mome raths outgrabe.<br />
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<br />"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!<br /> The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!<br />Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun<br /> The frumious Bandersnatch!"<br />
He took his vorpal sword in hand:<br /> Long time the manxome foe he sought --<br />So rested he by the Tumtum tree,<br /> And stood awhile in thought.<br />
And, as in uffish thought he stood,<br /> The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,<br />Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,<br /> And burbled as it came!<br />
One, two! One, two! And through and through<br /> The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!<br />He left it dead, and with its head<br /> He went galumphing back.<br />
"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?<br /> Come to my arms, my beamish boy!<br />O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'<br /> He chortled in his joy.<br /><br />
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Rachel C- Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08071084511912646636noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8820009705815991650.post-6180970138023635092012-08-27T08:38:00.002-07:002012-11-09T12:05:42.954-08:00There is Love.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I see the wall of flames as Heaven falls around you</div>
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And bathed in light an angel wraps his arms around you,</div>
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We are the Alpha and the Omega</div>
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We hold the dusk and bring the dawn</div>
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With every twisted step</div>
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Entwined, we are the Earth<br />
We are the sky<br />
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We whisper, 'Precious'</div>
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I see the destruction that in this prison binds you</div>
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And in your darkest hour an angel walks behind you<br />
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An Angel forged in brightest light does sing;</div>
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On leaving Earth, does fly beside you, Dear,</div>
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I can see the colours</div>
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I have always been able to</div>
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Every word has a colour,</div>
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Every sound.</div>
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Agnes is a vibrant blue,</div>
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Venice has a colour.</div>
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She is orange as a beacon</div>
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Calling us to discover her</div>
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glittering collection of knick knacks</div>
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Gathered from the joys of life</div>
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People walk by, chatting</div>
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their words throwing</div>
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bursts of colour into the air</div>
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like little fireworks above their heads</div>
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Johann has his camera</div>
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We wrap our arms around each other</div>
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Smile into the lens</div>
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Johann's laugh emits little sparks of</div>
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lilac and bright purple</div>
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I grab her hand, we start to run</div>
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faster and faster</div>
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The colours swirl around us</div>
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A rainbow mist</div>
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We run alongside a wedding boat</div>
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Bride and groom and brightly robed guests</div>
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sending streams of blues, pinks and greens into the air</div>
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as they laugh</div>
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We throw rose petals</div>
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They dance through the air like fairies to land on the water</div>
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Breathlessly we collapse</div>
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Cheeks flushed, eyes shining.</div>
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As the dusk falls</div>
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A warm cloud of red fills the air.</div>
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Swimming side by side, In a dream</div>
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The water a glorious heliotrope</div>
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Spraying cooling my skin,</div>
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We slow down, pick up and start again</div>
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I would be a fixture in your life</div>
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When you were home,</div>
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A cave where we would hide, our getaway,</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;"> What we heard<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Was
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">It
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">A
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">That
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Dark
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">It’s
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">So I
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">What
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Look,
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As he dips deep into the rubbish<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Underneath his grubby robe, a bound leather book hides<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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‘Here is the word… the WORD, friends!’<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The abused, and
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What I hold in my hand <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘Whatever, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">no truth here for
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chokes and coughs out parable after parable. He’s not even holding the damned book
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That’s what we are
and we have no rules, no authority figures, and certainly no God. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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it’s smoothness it’s coldness on my fingertips</div>
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I collide with ice cubes on my ascent</div>
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I can no longer smell it, nor feel it in my blood</div>
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bubbling under the surface to make me a madman,</div>
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To make me a crier, a spitter of curses</div>
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to make me an abuser of fences, doors and windows.</div>
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I am no longer attuned to the sensory overload </div>
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of the vodka-and- lime</div>
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I am no more a drinker than a dying man in the desert.</div>
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Me reading 'Little Nothings' and Suit Sonnet' at Songlab 2012. :) </div>Rachel C- Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08071084511912646636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8820009705815991650.post-37267325232030684892012-05-28T13:17:00.000-07:002012-07-24T14:37:45.530-07:00Nostalgia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of Life and Love and everything we hold so dear</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The dreams of Youth, Of a future never clear</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of wild summer nights</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The haziness of holding beer</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And dancing to the beat of a drum held so near but yet so far:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All these things, and more </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We must cherish as the time does fly</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Being young and foolish</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We do live so high. </span></div>
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Run</div>
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Steal away under cover of darkness</div>
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Burrow </div>
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Undetected </div>
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Like a missile into my dreams</div>
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Under my skins</div>
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Remind me of what I was not</div>
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What I cannot</div>
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And will never be</div>
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Spite</div>
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Like spikes on your back</div>
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Stop Thief</div>
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Malice</div>
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Like a palace of ice cold stone statues</div>
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Anger</div>
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Like vines crushing my throat</div>
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To stop my voice</div>
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Run</div>
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Like the wildness in you</div>
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Tear </div>
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At my soul</div>
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Humility and kindness could kill you</div>
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Brace</div>
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Yourself</div>
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For My Resurrection</div>
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Prepare </div>
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Flight. </div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not knowing rotten, crumbling adult prisons yet</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of shrieking laughter in the week,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Light candles in fuzzy, lipsticked delight</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dressed and powdered, obeying weekend nights</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To squeal in hazy perfumes stupor </span></div>
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Rachel C- Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08071084511912646636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8820009705815991650.post-7382797630258986142012-05-25T04:25:00.002-07:002012-09-19T12:48:29.067-07:00We are not Strangers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We meet at last, My Friend,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Man of the moment<o:p></o:p></div>
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Legend says you hold the key to the Writer’s voice<o:p></o:p></div>
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On a thick, silver chain around your neck<o:p></o:p></div>
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That it holds a vial of Oscar’s fresh blood<o:p></o:p></div>
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Or perhaps a lock of hair<o:p></o:p></div>
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That you prefer a gin and tonic<o:p></o:p></div>
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To a bottle of vintage Pinot Noir<o:p></o:p></div>
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That you are rather indiscreet<o:p></o:p></div>
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When you are a couple of sheets to the wind<o:p></o:p></div>
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I hear you enjoy a rhyme, a ditty,<o:p></o:p></div>
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A poem of sweet intention<o:p></o:p></div>
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That my words reached across<o:p></o:p></div>
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Time and space<o:p></o:p></div>
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You heard me calling for inspiration<o:p></o:p></div>
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And chose to inhabit my world<o:p></o:p></div>
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We meet at last, my dear,<o:p></o:p></div>
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In The green Carnation at Midnight;<o:p></o:p></div>
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We spend our time in elevated suspension<o:p></o:p></div>
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Picking glitter off each others shoulders<o:p></o:p></div>
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We are of separate bodies,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Yet our heartbeats synchronise<o:p></o:p></div>
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Our words do pass from ear to ear,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Yet not a tongue appears through teeth.<o:p></o:p></div>
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With your brilliant mind<o:p></o:p></div>
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We are bonded far beyond convention<o:p></o:p></div>
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Metaphysically entwined<o:p></o:p></div>
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As you sip another gin and tonic<o:p></o:p></div>
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I watch you in a state of trance<o:p></o:p></div>
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The most gentle of creatures:<o:p></o:p></div>
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My heart pounds, an unnatural rhythm<o:p></o:p></div>
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As we do our dance<o:p></o:p></div>
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As we converse with just our eyes<o:p></o:p></div>
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Lazily reading each other’s minds<o:p></o:p></div>
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I tell you why I am here.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I need the key to the Writer’s voice<o:p></o:p></div>
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That is why I cannot speak.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The legend says the muse will come ,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bringing beautiful things<o:p></o:p></div>
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In a flash of green light<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the darkest hour of midnight<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the special place I write.</div>
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Rachel C- Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08071084511912646636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8820009705815991650.post-68044525895958084192012-04-29T05:09:00.000-07:002012-10-15T14:49:13.601-07:00Little Nothings<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 150%;">Of ornately pampered<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rachel C- Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08071084511912646636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8820009705815991650.post-63382573730820910692012-04-29T04:58:00.000-07:002013-01-25T15:26:16.254-08:00The rumblings of an Oscar Wilde fangirl<!--StartFragment--><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">‘I have absolutely no Idea what to write about.’ Itold Rachel. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">‘Write about Oscar Wilde.’ She said.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">‘I always write about Oscar Wilde. Too predictable.’ <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">‘But you know about Oscar Wilde, you love him.’<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Not a lie.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">OscarWilde was the rock star of his day. I have a picture of Oscar Wilde as myscreensaver. I have a poster of him on the back of my door. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I used to write a blog called ‘The GreenCarnation.’ I describe myself on my Twitter profile as an ‘Oscar Wilde Enthusiast’but enthusiast seems too tame a word. an Oscar Wilde obsessive would be muchmore accurate but people don’t like the word obsessive, It scares them, and theword ‘Groupie’ doesn’t quite give the right impression after the eighties, so <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guess I’m going to have to go trendy andcall myself an Oscar Wilde Fangirl. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Imagine if Oscar Wilde were alivetoday. He would be a style icon, a witty, charming talk show guest, in thefront row at London Fashion week, his picture adorning the covers of ‘VogueHommes’ and papped without makeup in Heat Magazine. Invited to film premieres,press nights, gallery openings. He would be the ultimate celebrity. Wilde wasthe bad boy of 19<sup>th</sup> century London society, flamboyant in his speechand dress, friends with all the right people, and always in the middle of asexual scandal. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I confessI would be one of those girls waiting outside nightclubs, TV studios and hotelsin the rain eyes wide with anticipation, autograph book and pen clutchedtightly in trembling hand trying to be cool in my parka and ‘I love Oscar’ Tshirt, but knowing that any minute the tiniest glimpse of my idol would send meinto the stratosphere, wild eyes, overstretched fingers, screaming like a crazywoman. My room would be covered in posters, clippings, interviews and severalautographs, and my wardrobe would certainly include a fur and a green carnationMy best friends would be the other weirdos from the Oscar Wilde online forum. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Reading ‘ThePicture Of Dorian Gray’ for the first time was like leaving the farm in blackand white and tumbling into technicolour. I’d read Oscar’s poems of course, butthis was something else. I was nineteen, just about to leave home for the firsttime and already considered myself, naively of course, some kind of cultured,literary- forward creature because I went to private school and could readLatin and talk about Shakespeare without bursting into laughter. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I spent anentire day (or it could have been several days I’m not sure) lying on my bed,enraptured, ignoring lunch, phone calls, Star Trek, and dinner. I was happyright there in Dorian’s world with Lord Henry, Basil and poor Sybil Vane. Igasped as Basil confesses his attraction for Dorian … <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Dorian, from the moment I met you your personalityhad the most extraordinary influence over me. I was dominated, soul, brain andpower by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen idealwhose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream. I worshipped you. Igrew jealous of everyone with whom you spoke. I wanted to have you all tomyself. I was only happy when I was with you.’ <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Wow. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Oscaremptied his heart and soul into his work of art. I could smell the roses, tastethe wine, and see the brush strokes on the portrait of Dorian. Oscar said thingsthat he couldn’t say out loud in life. Confessing love for another man! It wasso bold, so brave. It opened my eyes and made me aware of how much I wanted towrite. No, needed to write, to pour my own heart and soul into a poem. It blewmy mind. He is so awesome. So brave! So controversial! Everything a writershould be. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">So far Ihave read The Picture of Dorian Gray more than twenty times. I am, actuallyobsessed. It is a huge part of the reason why I decided to become aprofessional writer. To inspire others the way Oscar inspired me. I want to besomebody’s rock star. Not that I think I will ever achieve Oscar’s level ofcelebrity, but I’ve heard that imitation is the highest form of flattery, so ifI can’t quite reach the dizzy heights of stardom, I certainly aspire toimitate. I am, after all an Oscar Wilde fangirl. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Tim saidthat to be able to write about a subject with knowledge and passion is a greatthing. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">‘Youobviously really, really love Oscar Wilde.’ He pointed out. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Not a lie.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><br />
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