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(Safely) Behind Silenced Lips
By RubyXero
There she lay, poised
beautifully silent
a porcelain moment of
grace.
Position fixed
gaze set upon the stars;
Drifting.
Hollow
Save for the soft pulse in her neck
she. was.
dead.
The soft flutter of moist lashes.
The hard rise of unhealthy
lungs
was she dead...?
the numb nothingness
of a girl
so emotionally full
Empty echoes of a lone night
only 30
hours
already missing.
what she doesn't miss...
Turning
to pages and lines
such order
she can be the wild chaos.
Safely,
behind silenced lips.
But her mind runs dry
and
her pen gets tired.
(It's been a long day anyway)
She
sleeps
in a coffin of sheets
legs straight
fingers gently
keeping
imagined flowers held close.
[Jasmines. Yes.
No.
Sunflowers... those don't blind
yet she can still thrive off them...]
mouth slack
eyes gentle.
Save for that
ever so slight
lift and fall from
imaginary petals, one might
consider her, dead.
..............
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Copyright 2012 RubyXero
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On Tuesday, May 22, 2012, haunted
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wrote:
so beautiful, i love the presence of death in this. the choice of sunflowers over jasmine because they wont blind is clever. if what your saying is that jasmine has the lure of deeply falling, im hooked. this painted a lovely picture in my mind. im morbid and i hope i read this right. but death can come softly. excellent ruby!
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A former member wrote:
i like this, it's wonderfully descriptive.
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A former member wrote:
Paints a grand image, thank you
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On Friday, January 6, 2012, dwells
(4285) wrote:
30 hours would constitute sleep deprivation, but sometimes when the words are coming in an liquid progression of exact intent, it's hard to stop. Hope she isn't too far gone and that sleep refreshes, thanks.
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On Friday, January 6, 2012, Magdalena
(615) wrote:
Wow, I've read some gems here today/tonight. Excellent.
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