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Blessed I, with dry and burning eyes

Roches

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'ere it is.
"Blessed I, with dry and burning eyes", an essay in raver-poetry. posted without comments for now.
Blessed I, with dry and burning eyes,
Make deaf my ears with Hosts of gall
Such that I may not hear the cries,
Ignore the shrill and longing call
And spurn the doom of sleep.
Stand I before that sage of wretched art,
Who slays on sight my loving race,
Who knows not love within his heart,
And bears dark anguish on his face;
He sow'd; now may he reap!
For swords of Light I bear in hand,
My lips are touched with bitter taste,
Flow I therefore to sound's demand;
My soul is pure, my body chaste,
Though my mind is confounded.
Blinded he, with dark and reddened eyes,
That knight with hooded gabardine,
Who loathes my bright belov'd disguise
As I abhor his ketamine,
With stimulants compounded;
A flash of light streaks forth within
This dark and long-abandoned cell,
My strike of color made herein;
The drums sound out a deathly knell,
And bid my power outward surge;
Alas! his numb unfeeling heart,
Touched with powder'd suicide,
Cries out; I sense my strength depart;
I sense his words of genocide,
And fall before the pharmaturge.
 
"pharmaturge" - nice coined word there...(a DJ is perhaps a turntablaturge then?
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This is extremely well-crafted and richly layered. I like it a lot.
[This message has been edited by stardragon (edited 08 June 2001).]
 
Impressive Roches. A lyrical tour-de-force! I think you have captured the spirit the rave culture quite nicely.
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Remember kids . . . god is dead, but nietzche is fo' real!
 
well respects then =) nice that ya like it.
i wrote that prompted by the raver-poetry on another message board, thinking i'd be a little oldskool with it.
stardragon: with shout-outs to tha Perseus project inside...i think trochoturge would be a good word for a dj.. it means "disk" or "potter's wheel" (about the closest thing the greeks had to a turntable, i think)... or "a large pill", for that matter =)
 
Great! It's so hard to make rhyming poetry come off just right but you've succeeded admirably. Love "strike of color."
 
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