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[title] => Owls to Athens
[time] => 2006-03-25 22:14:26
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[bodytext] => Keep very steady Don’t rock the boat Shift your weight Breathe from the inside of your throat Deep in the bowels Of the soggy lagoon A cave lay hidden Buried by the silence in bloom This will be your new home Far from civilization Amongst only trees and vegetation A biosphere Dependant on procreation Enter here Or take your chances in the open The entrance is cloaked By three pillars of contiguous smoke Raising the skin from under your coat Whisper the code- And the mechanism loads The locks unravel And the doorway is exposed Take a step inside Pitch blackness decimated by a glowing torch The staircase point downwards Towards the center of its soul Deeper and deeper you walk Under the ocean The weight of the world is felt Towards no end Deeper and deeper You walk ____________ _________________ [comments] => 4 [counter] => 217 [topic] => 43 [informant] => Jyssvw [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 10 [ratings] => 2 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => oops )
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