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Description Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

Robert Frost

A forest's whispy willows
Can sing a song so soothing
The waving winds are blowing
And the rustle of the trees
Find an interesting tune
That's full, and strong, and deep
They sing it out,
It brings you in
Like a siren calling out for a lover's leap
Then leaf subsides to leaf.

Apples fall from the wild trees
That all are in the forest
Fruit of knowledge,
Fruit of wisdom,
Fruit of forbidden all-knowing power;
Lies and love beneath our feet.
Fig leaves donned, now
Since we know, now
God created this beast
So Eden sank to grief.

The sun has risen
But it exits
As quickly as it enters
The lion and the lamb
Have fought their way
Into this god-forsaken place,
Where the rivers run dry
And the grass grows short.
It's an awful way to pay
So dawn goes down to day

This isn't what He hoped for,
Where his beasts roamed free.
The troubles that that they face
Can't be solved by Him now.
It was their own doing
That they should go astray;
From Satan's power
And his serpent servants.
Everything is a silver shade,
Nothing gold can stay.
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Comments: 3

Noirlux [2009-01-09 22:46:25 +0000 UTC]

WOW Really awesome. I helped out with the Literature Magazine at highschool, and this is better than 90 percent of the stuff Ive seen there. Keep on writing. You ever won a competition or something like that?

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ddrcoke21 In reply to Noirlux [2009-01-10 01:31:36 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! And no, I've never even entered any competitions.

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artistically-tragicx [2009-01-04 08:27:15 +0000 UTC]

This is really amazing. The writing is fantastic and I love your interpretation of that excerpt of Robert Frost's poem.

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