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Ruby
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Ruby asked in Arts & HumanitiesPoetry · 9 years ago

An old kind-of poem that needs work? Please C/C?

Written a few years ago in the midst of the 'Big Freeze' winter.

This Winter snow came.

Thickly it flew, landing,

sweeping in silently

smothering England in

a blanket, a straight jacket.

Snow rushed in,

too fast to halt -

her feet firmly set under the laid table,

her body spread across the unmade bed,

and confidently announced her stay.

Slender lady

Beauitful woman

Dazzling us with her diamond display,

stunning us with her serenity,

anesthetising us with her agelessness

drugging her with brightness in the dark.

Snow rested seductively and the ice lay

with her too, underneath her.

The perfect couple, merging - sex between

Sexes.

One soft, inviting, easy,

the other: strong, composed, hard

and they tricked us all.

Layering our paths - lying down beneath us

but all the time, tracking us, tricking us

-keeping us.

They took many that winter. First our children,

then the weak, the old then all

and we became like them.

They stole us, though some

- though I

went willingly

sliding between their cold sheets

slipping into their glazed world,

kissing their ivory powdered faces and necks

for the promise of

crystallised calm, of powerlessness

numbness

such an easy, lovely

fresh death.

Update:

Alpha Giorgio ® - Thank you so much for taking the time to read. Yes that section in the middle is a bit forced, I wasn't sure whether to cut it. The stunning us, dazzling us etc. I think by 'anesthetising us with her agelessness' I mean numbing us with ageless beauty, unsettling because you can't tell how old the 'person' - she - is and that makes them hard to read. But yeah it probably is a bit abstract. I like the end of the poem best too. Thank you - yes do, add away :)

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago
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    Potentially, you are a very good writer. Energetically, though, you stumble sometimes.

    "anesthetising us with her agelessness" is a wrong statement.

    ((( They stole us, though some

    - though I

    went willingly

    sliding between their cold sheets

    slipping into their glazed world,

    kissing their ivory powdered faces and necks

    for the promise of

    crystallised calm, of powerlessness

    numbness

    such an easy, lovely

    fresh death.)))

    This was masterful! Can I add you?

    (You impressed me through free verse.

    Only a handful of people have managed that, in English.)

  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    I am cold now.

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