From: exile@mediaone.freeside.com (Exile in Paradise)
Subject: flotsam: Silent Ice
Date: 9 Jan 93 06:12:13 GMT

Here is my first literary post to this newsgroup... a poem(?) I wrote 2
years ago that I just dug back up. If you have any comments, please
notify me in email... flames read and appreciated, but *only* thru email.
Here it is..
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Silent Ice by the Exile in Paradise

Cloud deck darkness across paintflake houses
Twin lines of streetlights are jewels against sky
Pale blue reflections in hard blue eyes
Muted growl thru the this hiss of wind

Around the streets a silent wall of ice
Shadows by the roadside poised, waiting
In faraway towers, tensed readiness above piles of papers
A voice carried by pulses in the thin air

Bone white walls and faery blue haze
Slow motion imagery of phosphor lines
A dragon tattoo against a dark tan field
Folded platic ends its journey in smoke

All associations cut, save one who's ice incarnate
Ready temptation traded for a concrete cell
The dancers all know, yet return for more
Hoping to stay the ice for one more run

A glacier settles across the streets in red-blue flashes
Houses now empty stand for another generation
The ice thaws leaving emptiness
A void to be filled with another dance
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Well... there it is. I hope you enjoy! L8r

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