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Golem

December 18, 2009
By Strangecolor BRONZE, Ellicott City, Maryland
Strangecolor BRONZE, Ellicott City, Maryland
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Favorite Quote:
"Everything we do is insignificant, but it is very important that we do it." -Gandhi


I see they have left you behind too
Fallen off the crazy wagon to flounder in the muddy road
Well, I've been here a while wallowing in the mud and clay
It's become who I am, this dirt
this filth I've learned the hard way to accept
But let me help you, I will not see you suffer as I tun to clay
Come here, I will trace the mud-glyphs onto your skin
The spell of acceptance
Across your collar bone and hips and across your heart
On your face a spell of beauty, and on your forehead
I will write truth
And we will save the mad people
On our faces will be written the truth that is mud
and together we will cast a spell of mud on their shoulders
Come and be baptized in the filth of the road more traveled
and find it is the means and ways that stain a reputation
in good river road clay
I see you too have been cast off and tossed into the mud
Come to me, I have wallowed longer than you and the mud has become part of me
Let me baptize you in mud
Write the spell of mud-glyphs on your arms, legs, chest and hips.
And on your head I will write in mud; truth


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on May. 29 2012 at 5:12 pm
DreamingOutQuiet SILVER, Round Rock, Texas
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Favorite Quote:
"Time and the bell have buried the day,
The black cloud carries the sun away" - Elliot

Oh if life where made of moments, even now and then a bad one. Oh, if life where made of moments then we wouldn't know we had one. - Into the Woods

The truth that is mud. I love it

Sarbear GOLD said...
on Nov. 15 2010 at 4:21 pm
Sarbear GOLD, Milan, Ohio
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Favorite Quote:
--Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away from them and you have their shoes.
--When life gives you lemons, squirt them in people's eyes.

well, it wasn't just one of those poems you can skim through and know right away what it's about... i loved how yours was original--i've definately never read a poem like this before...nicely done.

check out my poem Thunderstruck :)) thank you!


on Nov. 14 2010 at 10:59 am
Strangecolor BRONZE, Ellicott City, Maryland
3 articles 0 photos 23 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Everything we do is insignificant, but it is very important that we do it." -Gandhi

About what? If you can remember... hi...

Sarbear GOLD said...
on May. 17 2010 at 3:06 pm
Sarbear GOLD, Milan, Ohio
10 articles 4 photos 489 comments

Favorite Quote:
--Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away from them and you have their shoes.
--When life gives you lemons, squirt them in people's eyes.

wow... love this--really made me think.

on Apr. 20 2010 at 4:14 pm
ellyncannon PLATINUM, Mexia, Texas
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Favorite Quote:
That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
<3

I really like the line "Come and be baptized in the filth of the road more traveled and find it is the means and ways that stain a reputation". It's so... simply true. I really like this!

You can always change a good reputation but coming out of a bad one is more difficult...


on Apr. 1 2010 at 3:25 pm
Strangecolor BRONZE, Ellicott City, Maryland
3 articles 0 photos 23 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Everything we do is insignificant, but it is very important that we do it." -Gandhi

Ah yep, graduating HS this year :) Thanks for the compliment. I honestly don't like this version quite yet, I keep playing with it, it is a rather complicated feeling...

JeanGrey GOLD said...
on Apr. 1 2010 at 2:13 am
JeanGrey GOLD, Mason City, Iowa
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Favorite Quote:
"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."-Oscar Wilde

I like it :) It has a great meaning and is very deep :) How old are you? I am just so amazed by this piece! It is so good and insightful...you can't be an actual teenager...are you? ;)