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Poem Details
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| Title: | Fire In Phoenix |
| Author: | Jim |
| Date Submitted: | 9/23/2009 |
| Email: | jimellner@hotmail.com |
| Poem: |
Orphaned sleep Nascent old man with insomnia Illness that gave me early a.m. information Words beaded together like rope around the neck Loss of monetary gain Phantoms of life played a chameleon Changing personas on the stage of life Elusive in their invasion Homicidal in the domestic environs Quilted together like a burial shawl Mental illness hammered out on an anvil While our world decomposes Locked in my internecine self Revolution in my uneducated defeat Staggering across the paper ocean Looking for a hint of hope Call it the bread and butter Dead zone in the sea of mind Penury defeats me Homeless in the land of sorrow Houses stand empty in an age of hunger Ineligible citizenry without a country... |