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zphoenixdownz — awoke amidst shouts
Published: 2003-10-23 09:37:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 421; Favourites: 5; Downloads: 27
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Description new york city
dying on
-the lava of live video feed-
             faces
airplanes like bullets
fired into
a perfect
-erupting in our chests-
              couple
this marriage is over
they're buried side by
-welding hearts inside our throats-
                                side
scattered into tombstones
the bones of these giants
litter the
-steam condensing in our eyes-
             streets
mingling with paper leaves
of some dwindling consequence
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Comments: 10

tearzdr0p [2007-09-17 22:44:26 +0000 UTC]

This poem was so well written to express out the emotions here that I really got some goosebumps going. But, I mean this in a good way. =]
Thanks for sharing with us all with your poems. It's really amazing to see how everyone expresses their feelings towards 9/11. 9/11...despite its tragedy...it was also a day when everyone finally woke up and realize that regardless of our race and origins...we are all united as one. Thanks for your contributions again. =]

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benevolentsoul [2003-11-05 08:54:49 +0000 UTC]

Hmmm...

rocking the dashes...

I don't know if I like the content, or this one as much as previous versions...

It's time for some critical thought.

- Keegan

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zphoenixdownz In reply to benevolentsoul [2003-11-09 05:11:36 +0000 UTC]

critical it up.
that's what i rely on you for...

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nihilim [2003-10-26 06:55:25 +0000 UTC]

Damn. I normally dislike such use of format, but here it rocked. Loved this.

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zphoenixdownz In reply to nihilim [2003-10-26 16:03:59 +0000 UTC]

sweet. thanks.

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carissima82 [2003-10-26 06:41:08 +0000 UTC]

really like this.

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zphoenixdownz In reply to carissima82 [2003-10-26 16:08:23 +0000 UTC]

thank you.

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livingbyair [2003-10-24 04:19:10 +0000 UTC]

I can feel it. You got to me.

that's all you need to know.

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citizenerased [2003-10-23 16:29:20 +0000 UTC]

I dont think its like watching it on tv.because tv keeps it all on a quite neutral level, holding 60% of the emotions you could feel back because there is the glass in between,the warm couch under your bones..so thats the reason why it is different.There is no glass in between.Not even your eyes it seems ..as if those words ,images,worlds get directly transmitted to your brain and right to it.And only slowly spreads in your body.and there is no warm couch under you.but a realization that comes,and you look down on it and realize its full dimension.
This is on this "subject" (I hate to call it a subject..) the most amazing poem Ive read.
I feel like a child reading it,not meaning its in any way naive its just.you have this feeling of ..the big world around you..of the wheels ,invisible rules and mechanics steering it all into directions your mind cannot perceive.and it all works so fast..and you wonder where your mom is.while you stand here alone on the street and watch the inferno take place.

nova

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zphoenixdownz In reply to citizenerased [2003-10-23 18:10:00 +0000 UTC]

i think that is, by far, the most beautiful feedback i've ever received on a poem.

thank you

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