| Re: Poppy beat poet symmetryKiki, on host 208.151.220.100 Tuesday, November 28, 2000, at 11:21:06
 Re: Poppy beat poet symmetry posted by Nyperold on Tuesday, November 28, 2000, at 09:03:37:
 > > > > Speaking of poetry, I wrote two new ones, which is good cause i hadn't had any inspiration since August and I was getting worried and they're good poems! Anyone care for me to post?> > > >
 > > > > Ki"conspiracy? I think not..."ki
 > > >
 > > > Kiki!  Need you even ask.... YES! POST! PLEASE DO!
 > > >
 > > > :-)
 > >
 > > Well then... Neither has a title as of yet, and neither of the two people who have read them has been able to tell what they were about... but I like them. Any comments are welcome.... although if they're of any deep nature, I'd prefer them to be emailed.
 > >
 > > Poem#1
 > >
 > > An impenetrable fortress
 > > Falls
 > > Leaving an idyllic world
 > > In shambles
 > > The city rebuilt
 > > Will never be as strong
 > > The new walls -
 > > Needed to keep out
 > > The savage unknown
 > > And therefore
 > > Hastily erected -
 > > Are weaker
 > > More easily breached
 > > Eventually
 > > That which is left
 > > Is not worth
 > > The energy of rebuilding
 > > And a once respected citadel
 > > Decays
 > >
 > > Unless
 > > The time is taken
 > > To prevent new weakness
 > > And old faults
 > > Are corrected
 > > And long-term growth
 > > Is placed before
 > > Short-term safety
 > >
 > > But who has time
 > > To bother with that?
 > >
 > >
 > > Poem#2
 > >
 > > Forgiveness and trust
 > > Are entirely different things
 > > Quintessentially Pandora
 > > The untouchable is touched
 > > Raving demons released
 > > To the leer
 > > Of the punishing world.
 > > What's done is done.
 > > Yes,
 > > But can you
 > > Will you forget?
 > > Grasp for the one
 > > Beam of hope
 > > Did it fly away
 > > With the rest?
 > > Was it ever there at all?
 > > The apple has browned
 > > The shadows lengthen
 > > Our appointment ends
 > > Unless you call them back
 > > Is it too late
 > > For a simple apology?
 > >
 > >
 > > Ki"poetess"ki
 >
 > I understand those. At least, I think I do. :) Very well written.
 >
 > Nyperold
 
 I'd be interested to know what you think they're about.... I've gotten LOTS of different answers so far... and by lots I mean, well, two, but I'd be interested.
 
 Ki"at the folger"ki
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