Mushroom Cloud

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    • If I speak in the tongues of men and angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a tinkling symbol. And if I have prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And if I dole out all my goods, and if I deliver my body that I may boast but have not love, nothing I am profited. Love is long suffering, love is kind, it is not jealous, love does not boast, it is not inflated. It is not discourt

    Mushroom Cloud
    Cumulunombus:
    Water painted night sky
    Saints and Gods floating by
    The mansions in the night
    Divine poison ivy walking the walls
    Mushrooms and Flowers
    Blooming colors of blood
    Blue and Red
    The sentiment of antidotes
    Alter egos and enemies
    Pennies and Nickels
    Just strictly stars
    Under tones of hearts
    Spades and diamonds
    Kings and Queens
    Life is but a dream
    Of chess boards checkered
    Black and red
    Reducing reactions falling apart
    Some things are best left un-said
    The sadness of sadism
    Maidens of memories
    Medicate me mellow yellow
    Pink and purple
    Cotton and cardboard
    The small cottage of the big city
    Calm and quiet
    It's not quite midnight
    According to my palms
    I open the black leathery book
    To chapter 3 in Psalms
    and begin singing
    Verse after verse
    Under this curse of clouds
    Crumbling above, pretty night of love
    From the belly of an ambulance
    Screaming sirens
    To the thorax of a hearst
    All dressed black with silence
    Wrapped behind curtains
    I look up at the night sky
    Once more before I head inside
    I will hold my head high
    For the rest of my life
    Color with white crayons
    Clouds and celing fans
    Until my eyes drain, then dry
    As my hands become wrinkled with time
    I promise this is the last time.

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    kmooney commented on Mushroom Cloud

    07-12-2009

    I like the imagery and structure of this one. My initial thoughts, as I read this, were of all the images that might pass through my head as I watched a Mushroom Cloud rise. Mushroom Clouds, of course, to me represent complete devastation. Man finally destroying himself. Like Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of WWII. I often think about how fragile our world has become. How a single person, given the means and motivation, could literally wipeout life as we know it. It is a very sobering thought. Read some of my earlier work and you will see the same message. I don't know if this was your intended meaning here but it certainly gave me pause. A Mushroom Cloud is something I never want to see in my lifetime. Thanks again my friend. I enjoyed it... K
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    lustfulsoul commented on Mushroom Cloud

    07-12-2009

    Very thought provoking. You write with so much passion. I can truly appreciate the imagery and the message was piercing the layers of my brain. Loved it! One of my favorites now. Great write and read!
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    stormyskyes7 commented on Mushroom Cloud

    07-09-2009

    keep writing poems and ill keep reading them and die from boredom
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