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PhilomenaAquitaine
 Post subject: Death and The Muse
PostPosted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 9:15 pm 
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A canvas holds beauty captured for eternity;
A living face fades in time's shadow.
The muse knows the hand that once painted no other
Betrays her daily with younger flesh.
She knows what he paints of her now
Is just a memorial to her beauty's death,
Each stroke of sable brush is nostalgia.
She wishes she could burn and rise like a phoenix
A blazing new life from cold ashes, but
Beauty must fade as the mirror cracks
And the muse not the Art must die.

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 Post subject: Re: Death and The Muse
PostPosted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 9:45 pm 
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The quality of work in here just keeps getting better and better ! great stuff :D

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RobertDevlin
 Post subject: Re: Death and The Muse
PostPosted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 10:20 pm 
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I agree with Iceman. Beautiful and poignant wording Philomena. Splendid prose.


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 Post subject: Re: Death and The Muse
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Oooooh Philomena, she's not just a pretty face!

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PhilomenaAquitaine
 Post subject: Re: Death and The Muse
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I'm in the process of writing a libretto for an opera about Lizzie Siddal and Rossetti. While I was thinking about her death (cheerful) I wrote this poem.

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Meadow
 Post subject: Re: Death and The Muse
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You're dead posh you aren't you!

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 Post subject: Re: Death and The Muse
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Forever our Ophelia! Yes! Yes! I can see the connection to her in your poem! Very good I must say! Tragically she departed so young!


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PhilomenaAquitaine
 Post subject: Re: Death and The Muse
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Coming from such a cultured cat that is a great honour!

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 Post subject: Re: Death and The Muse
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I am more than just a pretty fur ball Philomena. I always appreciate art and poetry!


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