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Melting Ecstasy

July 11, 2014
By RabbitStew13 GOLD, Atlanta, Georgia
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Who has suffered from such hopeless love,
dismissed devotion, renounced rapture?
Whose mind has been plagued by fruitless questions,
by whispers of sense and howls of gall,
by ghosts of smiles and forlorn sighs,
a kind of shame as she passes you by
by melting ecstasies of shame and fear,
of bitter delight, and sweet despair?

© Michelle B., Blairsville, GA

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Erasure poem, words from page 223 of Robertson Davies' "Fifth Business"
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on Dec. 15 2015 at 11:03 pm
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Hey dude, I'm a newbie on the site. And I love your poem! (Check out some excerpts I've written, please? They are in the Writer's Workshop forum. Long story.(Oh, I can't use the chat on the thing I am using))
EmilytheBelleofA. DIAMOND said...
on Jul. 26 2014 at 9:48 am
EmilytheBelleofA. DIAMOND, Athens, Georgia
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This is amazingly written! It's full of emtion and it has depth and meaning. Your words are powerful. Keep on writing, please! Thanks for sharing this, KidRamesses13!