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Bitter as Wormwood (Free verse) by vulcan
Follow me friend, The night is cold and our hearts As full and twisted as our screwed eyes. Follow me friend to the nearest graveyard We needs pick roses from the neibouring houses Yea,those that stand crew-haunted in the dark. Follow me friend! We'll invite all the Shadows and Mysteries And all demons who in dark dwellings breathe. We'll strew roses on all stones Then trample all without exemption Till they mirror the image of our cracked hearts. Follow me friend,then to the nearest crag, We are overtired by night We must needs cry after all Tramplings Needs sleep somewhere out of sight. -The title is borrowed from the last stanza of a poem by Alexander Blok,' To the Muse'. "And there was a fatal pleasure In trampling on cherished and holy things; and this passion,bitter as wormwood, Was a frenzied delight for the heart!"

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Arithmetic Mean: 6.3636365
Weighted score: 5.681818
Overall Rank: 1992
Posted: September 20, 2002 8:41 AM PDT; Last modified: September 23, 2002 12:52 AM PDT
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[7] Frass @ 66.160.116.193 | 20-Sep-02/12:30 PM | Reply
I like it, Vlcn. I just sampled some brewed wormwood extractive from a local herbal school here in northern Virginia; it was bitter. I'll have to check out Blok's work.
[8] Christof @ 195.172.133.226 | 23-Sep-02/1:15 AM | Reply
And wormwood is the stuff in absinthe that makes the brain a little fried. Interesting development on that Blok quotation.
[10] Lenore @ 64.252.102.35 | 23-Sep-02/6:40 AM | Reply
A Curse upon all who decimate such sacred ground! Great poem! My wormwood has over taken the path in my herb garden but I love her still. You should see how she shines in moonlight! 10/10
[7] Frass @ 138.88.156.211 > Lenore | 23-Sep-02/11:09 AM | Reply
Is 'decimate' the word you're looking for, Lenore?
[6] <~> @ 167.206.181.179 | 23-Sep-02/12:23 PM | Reply
the connexion between trampled stolen roses and hearts and tombstones intrigues me, but i want more development
[8] aperfecttool77 @ 12.221.0.73 | 23-Sep-02/9:39 PM | Reply
Great work!
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