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masquerade (Free verse) by lil cindy lu who
Can you sing, can you dance, can you play? Always, always, always, live for today. Come to the ball. Dance through the hall. A glorious play for all. A mask is needed for this play. Hide thine face, so you can stay. Watch them twirl and dance. Behind your mask, watch them prance. Their eyes, oh their eyes, tell a story. Of better days, of timeless glory. Look behind those eyes. Beneath the mask. See the lies. Of which we should not ask. A masquerade, a party, a ball. Please, come one! Come all! Love is a dance. Of exquisite romance. The truth, or a lie. Whatever the hopes, the dreams may die. Perhaps. Just perhaps, what you ask? You'll find happiness behind that mask. So, won't you come with me? Hidden, behind your mask you see? To dance and play. To laugh and sway. To die, a little more this day. Come, to the masquerade. A gaudy ball, a grand parade. A party, of childrens cheers. A twisted gather, of morbid fears. A calvacade, of cheerful cries. A dark, dark party, full of lies.


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Weighted score: 5.888889
Overall Rank: 1492
Posted: May 21, 2003 5:34 PM PDT; Last modified: May 21, 2003 5:34 PM PDT
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[n/a] kassanna @ 205.188.208.102 | 21-May-03/6:12 PM | Reply
This is great ...I love it
[9] deleted user @ 205.188.208.102 | 21-May-03/6:27 PM | Reply
yooo hoooo lil cindy lu.....gave you a nine
your poem is fine
[7] Felzpoet @ 68.173.204.214 | 24-May-03/5:59 PM | Reply
we all wear masks to hide wht we are
but past the lies lay ourselves but are we hiddin the truth from the worl or hiding it from ourselves
good poem got me to think
[n/a] -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. @ 131.111.212.215 > Felzpoet | 24-May-03/6:53 PM | Reply
How true.... how true. We do all wear masks, don't we? Not literally, of course. Not figuratively either. Masks aren't intended to hide your identity. They're decorations. The metaphor of masks for "acting self-consciously" is completely tired and wrong.
[n/a] kassanna @ 64.12.96.46 | 29-May-03/6:57 PM | Reply
cynical but very good
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