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Mercury is on its way
Following the merman
Through the main

It took all this time
Flooding my basement
Drowning my brain

Finally
Awakening the mermaid’s
Comatose

But as she slept
The sounds of the tide
Sang to her

While the merman stole and
Used a shell that would never return
Its song back to the owner

So she flushed the fish down
The drain
As he cried out “You’ll be sorry”

And she was
But Mercury followed
Ending her pain

Since it’s motion in the sky
Revealed the coward
Possessing her song
And posing with fins


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"You're so free, yeah you were right about me,
Can I get myself back from underneath this guilt that will crush me,
And in the choir i saw a sad messiah,
He was bored and tired of my laments,
said 'I died for you one time but never again.'"
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The following comments are for "The Mermaid Sees the Coward"
by SEASECRETS

poetic parable
loved this tale, the almost abstract and strongly imagistic language, the mythical guises of the poem’s players, rendering them fierce and fantastical, and raising the drama above the level of the every day in to a kind of old world epic struggle…

like the best fairy tales too, this one has a moral, in this case about the importance and value of seeing clearly.

( Posted by: AuldMiseryGuts [Member] On: February 13, 2008 )

POEWHIT
Has alot of imagination

( Posted by: poewhit [Member] On: February 13, 2008 )

Thanx!
THank you for commenting!
HAve you ever heard the story of Agnete and the Merman?
well i was really influenced by it....sadly that story has a beautiful ending...mine not so much
but thank you for reading!
i always appreciate your feedback

( Posted by: SEASECRETS [Member] On: February 15, 2008 )





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