Re: Ocean Twilight Eternity -- The Fatted Calf

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Subject: Re: Ocean Twilight Eternity

Author:
T.R.Jones

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Date Posted: 09:57:42 12/14/00 Thu
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In reply to: William James Blackford 's message, "Ocean Twilight Eternity" on 14:31:31 12/07/00 Thu

Wow...That was strikingly beautiful...

>Ocean twilight eternity
>bears a chained and damaged buoy;
>its patined bell resounding clearly until swallowed
>beneath fading mercurial amber sea
>Its fate unseen yet nonetheless
>strung and tortured by the undertow
>Gasping crash of disbelief
>from folding waves
>as the cone steel-frame silhouette
>expunges to the surface;
>bobbing and weaving,
>gasping for breath,
>(severed chain sinking in depths)
>awash with newly won freedom
>Now its tolling chime is betrothed
>to firmament's crystalline night hand,
>whose fingers have scattered,
>throughout herself, dense and distant flakes
>from the burning hairs of the departed sun

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