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Death of a Poet by ~Something-Original:iconSomething-Original:

Categories Literature > Poetry > Horror & Macabre > Fixed




Silver blades reflect a face
Smooth and sharp in pale light
A face with tears in its eyes
Blades still gleaming in the night

It is not for my heart to say
With night this tragedy will end
But now a shadow darkens day
Against which I cannot defend

I am a man long out of luck
The fleeting muse has been bled dry
Against my wishes I am stuck
Inside a dark and hopeless lie

So now I look upon a blade
Of icy silver stained with blood
To end this lie despair has made
As I embrace the crimson flood
©2004-2009 ~Something-Original
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Author's Comments

This is both one of my shortest, and one of my bleakest poems. It's about self harm, suicide, and so forth - not too pleasant but I'm running out of decent poems to submit. It makes reference to past poems that I haven't posted, in the use of silver as a metaphor. Silver in my poetry tends to represent beauty, and the pain love can cause. It used to be called 'Reflections', but I thought this was a better name for it.

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~Riada Jun 9, 2004, 2:05:21 AM
As you can imagine, the poetry I like the most, is dark, sometimes sad, sometimes telling a story and sometimes just feelings.
So, if you can imagine that, you can imagine how much I liked this one.
And this isn´t just blablabla, like "I´m gonna kill myself, nobody loves me" etc. :D
You´ve turned a cliché into something original. I´m stunned.

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Baka neko ^^
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~Something-Original Jun 9, 2004, 4:43:58 AM
Thanks a lot, I know you're a fan of dark poetry so I'm flattered you like mine. Most of my older stuff was like that one, though not as good, I hadn't quite developed my writing style at that point. Death of a Poet has been revised, rewritten and renamed so many times, I'm glad it turned out ok in the end.

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If it's not worth doing to the extreme, it's not worth doing at all.

"Water comes from the sky... Says it all, really..."
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*Missy39811 Sep 24, 2004, 4:58:37 AM
I really enjoyed this peice of poetry alot. It is well written and deep,with emotions.I Like it .I like your style.

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~Emotional-Writings
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~Something-Original Sep 25, 2004, 3:38:47 AM
Thanks very much, I don't usually get comments on my older poems so it's nice to know someone reads them. Glad you enjoyed it. :)

--
If it's not worth doing to the extreme, it's not worth doing at all.

"Water comes from the sky... Says it all, really..."
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