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[aid] => mick
[title] => Specs of Sea
[time] => 2005-05-17 16:02:38
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[bodytext] => The parachutist leaps From the tower The ivory branch of the tree trunk Demonstrating, The ability to withstand From the tower, The ivory coast can be seen with its sand And as your gracious host, Allow me to pull back on your hand It the thrill craves you the most No one but you can understand The tower from which I leap Is planted firmly in the soil of hell The quandary, Which I find myself in Is only one that time can tell For if my boundary Stretches this proverbial well Then my bones shall be crushed Under the pressures that quell From the coast of the island A tower, Can be seen afar The fire that is lit, Burns bright on its pillar A signal, a code, Broken by all who look The global symbol, Of strength A noble residual, Left, from Ancestors that wept The tree at its base Is a tree like none of its kind A beast of a tree, Enormous in size Spanning the seas, That separates its eyes The tree of the tower Is delighted to rise On occasion, And boldly describe How it came to be And why this high The parachutist reaches Clinging to a desperate branch The love of it is, He never gets the chance The chute that he cherishes Has abandoned his decent The tower just stares and laughs The coast that beckoned Its sand blown to sea at last [comments] => 1 [counter] => 188 [topic] => 43 [informant] => jyssvw [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 3 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => oops )
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