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Post by Aish on Jul 9, 2008 19:15:18 GMT -5
DEVOUR.
that's what she said - I'd devour you and spitshit you out, go on in my endless broken path
of dessicated bodies and disconnected destruction.
(the husk of 21st century femininity)
the cage of soulless refusal to surrender- -to need- to devalue the sheer brilliant ingenuity of woman.
but I haven't devoured you, and you haven't devoured me.
this is my fury as inamorata - -as unseated goddess - my inheritance
of unholy misogyny and the crime of refusing stale names for my own.
Beauty is my splendor ransomed and slandered, until the meaning is yellowed and brittle as aged parchment. "Bitch" says the recognizant spit.
"Whore" - all and more - of ravished mothergoddessme.
I reclaim the temple and light the fires, but sit at the side of calm. Where I can draw deep from the well and close my eyes, staying.
safe, in this chest, in this ribcage, in the night rehanging my moon and unbinding my sigh. I have been angered for a collective millennia
and am ready to embrace gentility. I can be.
I can hear my own (emphatic) hum.
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Post by ValkyrieGoddess on Jul 11, 2008 14:18:15 GMT -5
Don't really know what to say.This piece leaves me Speechless...
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Post by Aish on Jul 13, 2008 13:27:32 GMT -5
I hope that's in a good way??
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Post by ValkyrieGoddess on Jul 16, 2008 20:46:36 GMT -5
Of course. ;D
This is a Flawless Masterpiece. Think this is my New favorite.
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Post by atomicparakeet on May 24, 2011 13:42:51 GMT -5
I agree with Valkyrie!
Somehow you have woven negatives into beauty.
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Post by LonelyForsaken on May 24, 2011 15:40:06 GMT -5
You are a master at expression and I sense you have needed to get this out for some time now. It’s wonderful that you share it with us.
:'(It’s an uncomfortable subject isn’t it? “Beauty is my splendor ransomed and slandered, until the meaning is yellowed and brittle as aged parchment. "Bitch" says the recognizant spit.
"Whore" - all and more - of ravished mothergoddessme.”
There is so much more here than meets the eye.
I want to comment more but I think I should chew on it for awhile.
Wonderful and brilliant piece.
Thank you,
LonelyForsaken
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Post by Veritas on May 25, 2011 12:06:10 GMT -5
Its from 2008 forsaken. But I agree, exellent bit of work.
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Post by Aish on May 26, 2011 12:51:02 GMT -5
It is indeed 3 years old. Atomic!
Thank you all for the replies. It felt wonderful when I wrote it.
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