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[aid] => mick
[title] => The Scarlet Letter
[time] => 2005-01-05 17:42:42
[hometext] => Poem written about the American classic
[bodytext] => Something falls from the folds of Night Her cloak a velvet obsidian Something commited within the chambers of two hearts And Calypso held their hand and introduced them to the flames Emerging from the fire a Scarlet Letter upon her breast And falling from Heaven a Pearl clad in red Standing on the scaffold And the stoic jailer The confused face of the innocent maiden The men beholding her in a steady, emphatic gaze Directing their piercing eyes Each one a dagger to tear her heart The disgust lying upon the tongues of these dusty "Angels" Spews forth with viscious abandonment She holds her precious Pearl close And yet it glitters It shimmers in the sun The "A" pinned upon her dress Seared into her very spirit The stone hard tongues of those "Angels" won't redeem her now She will be strong in all that she has to endure And resting in her eyes is a resonant voice Quivering under God's Eye His frame collapsing under the Devil's A wound above his heart And stars did scatter And the moon did fall And the candle was lit in red flame Across the Night's broken wing their souls were beared for all to see The Scarlet Letter in the sky And they stood upon that scaffold With their Pearl in deep scarlet Wisdom flowing through her veins The breath that sustains the two lovers She in her shame And he in his torture He is the Angel in the dust And she is the hand within his heart His candle was lit in red blood And his relief of confession finally stifled the flame And she held his face within her hands As the flame flickered and died His own letter to fade upon his dying flesh And on she went Surrounded by the scattered stars And rays left over by the moon She died with wrinkles on her hands And many hard years around her eyes Together in death In Heaven or Hell Laid beside each other in the earth A tombstone to serve them both The Letter "A" carved into the stone Out of the dust [comments] => 3 [counter] => 201 [topic] => 71 [informant] => daniella [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 5 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => secrets )
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