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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!

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To: Ignacio Mosqueira who wrote (4717)3/27/1997 6:07:00 PM
From: Ignacio Mosqueira   of 108807
 
A Poem: Vietnamese Food

Like tender shoots tremble end over end
over the precise and smooth expanse bend
in the crowded solace of fields of lemon grass
Like an evergrowing and cropping range
of discarded lost lime sighs in greedy impasse

In reach prostrated to the bonding task
Spread deceitful under a film of musk
Bare incarnate remnants of cool feathery coals
And sprays of froth and acid cyclic rage
Shivering ecstatic surge upon breathy shoals

Fake stolid graces yet deceive anew
Yellowed skins melted on down bitter grew
Twisted and pinched lemon with sour rotten tips
Languid droops in prolongued melodious flow
Ordered blacks evenly spread in thin deadly quips

The proud crane could not be but down was brought
fluttering with preparatory heaves
dark and light feathers aglow in a field of snow
Gelatinous white marked with feather leaves

Spicy and dank bewitched tails are sought
Shivering shadow of shimmering white
A silken kite -- a darkly blinding sight
Deep white -- a veined and grained shadowy white
Shiny layered paddies, fallow folds, and mauve hills
Pink embittered moons oozing circumspection
Cracked porcelain exuding dewy contemplation

Neatly assembled burn the auburn reeds
Straight stalks lined along all one now needs
Yellowed skin punctured with faded dates
Nothing more than a mere hint of gender
Lemon extracts crated in crusty raw mates

With stout burned-out grass the sultry air reeks
Charged with the sparks of flashing grins and peeks
Heavy with indolent airs of well abused breath
In fits and starts set it all ablaze and tender
Before the winds change to a searing bath

A whiff of unrehearsed whimper ends the play times
severs the merry indifference of trembling chimes
And brings the moral wings of elevated gloom
to flap the air with noxious regularity
Which only evens the brackish airs all too soon

Until the aged softness, the timeless dawn of theory
Shroud pinned by the dullness of morning memory
Which by dint of retaining the bare glow
can not endure hope but loses its charity
Leaving behind nothing but stranded words for show

Collapsed opposites suckling for dear life
Immaculate murk of seductive strife
Empty wisps full of whirling worlds
Until all that remains is the stunned nearness
Of abysmally shrunk cosmic swirls

And now? Hunger for the emptiness of more
Which brings forth its own heavy lore
Mess the Gods can not but honor and bless
Until all stands still quacking sore
And yet we are everything, still, without a core

Sad whooping crane! Downed and exhausted bird!
Are you still dancing to cadences to be heard?
Circle round with round bulbous eyes pinned in sight
of the piled up spoils of the fray in a silver tray
Still warm, the leftovers of the famished night.
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