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Date Posted: 14:57:24 08/15/03 Fri
Author: Raphaela
Author Host/IP: webcacheB02a.cache.pol.co.uk / 195.92.168.164
Subject: Re: Elongated Flowers
In reply to: AAAAGGGSSS 's message, "Elongated Flowers" on 20:41:39 08/13/03 Wed

A clever use of extended metaphor - using the imagery of stalagmites as a metaphorical cage of the heart.

R

>The passages to her heart
>were scared
>with those stalagmite columns;
>that hung, to the floor --
>calcified
>
>with other forms of rock
>that sought to claim
>every crevice
>its own
>
>Boasting
>to hollows, they would
>succeed, in tender echoes:
>voices that drifted
>blank corridors
>
>Her own
>emanated from her heart
>within, with echoes heard
>below, life
>in the chamber;
>all else
>just never
>took its place
>
>Constant shuffling of cards
>by the candles; they flickered
>intently in only
>gray darkness
>
>With thick walls, so drunken
>within
>enclosed with granite;
>the windows sealed shut
>so long ago, and all
>so vacated
>
>To find escapes
>to the grounds above;
>the dirt's of memories
>through any
>looking portals no one had
>passing through, with all
>overgrown
>flowers, no one kept
>such a secret
>
>Stalagmites really formed
>once and again to cage;
>capture all holes
>of any held in air
>passages, the last
>bit of any
>remembrances she
>alive or whole
>
>whispers are always glancing
>the bottoms
>as silt
>that fell from flowers
>always, to an elongated
>earth

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