The choice we make.
Sultry eyes or innocent oculars?
A Lusty pout or a sincere smile?
Ridiculously Voluptuous Volumes or the maiden’s delicate slimness?
The lay of it is thus:
That one must conquer the other
For Love and Lust cannot dwell in similar housing at once
Though both are cousins to the other.
Lust is the lover of the bachelor
But love is the practice of the married man.
To lust men surrender nothing and are given all
But in love all is given and naught returned
For lest love be met with love all is frustrated.
In Lust, a man loses nothing, but slakes his own thirsty flesh
Lust is a heady wine that intoxicates those who drink too deeply.
But love is water clearer than laughter
Love is the dream of preachers and daughters
Love is the cascading blue pounding into the soul.
Lust is a cloudy haze of pink and red
But the passions of love are brilliant beyond reasoning.
Lust is a child disgracing the instruments
Yet love, plainly spoken, is a woman who knows and uses them full well.
Lust purports herself as a revealer of mysteries
As a stripper of honesty
She claims to remove our high minded “shacklesâ€
Love Or Lust
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Love Or Lust
With your doubt, all is comfort
We are all as we appear
No more questions left unanswered
No more wonder, no more fear
Nothing is beauty, nothing's feeling
Blood where there once was a soul
So I ask you, prove yourself
Make me believe that you are whole
We are all as we appear
No more questions left unanswered
No more wonder, no more fear
Nothing is beauty, nothing's feeling
Blood where there once was a soul
So I ask you, prove yourself
Make me believe that you are whole
- Zarn Ishtare
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Most of the time I can't understand your poetry and some of the time I really like what you've written...but this one is the best I've seen yet, Zarn. Good work...
It has very nice scriptural integration...
It has very nice scriptural integration...
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QtheQreater - Posts: 727
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This is one of your better poems. My favorite line was : But love is water clearer than laughter
This has a Proverbial ring to it and has quite pleasing imagery.
If you, in reading this
Cannot discern the better
Than God himself has blinded you
That you may not read my letters I wouldn't have chosen God as the one who blinds...
I also appreciated the mention of the ridiculous voluptuousness versus what women actually look like.
This has a Proverbial ring to it and has quite pleasing imagery.
If you, in reading this
Cannot discern the better
Than God himself has blinded you
That you may not read my letters I wouldn't have chosen God as the one who blinds...
I also appreciated the mention of the ridiculous voluptuousness versus what women actually look like.
[SIZE="4"][color="DarkSlateBlue"]God has called me to mission work in Paraguay and Brazil. I may return to CAA someday. God bless all of you![/color][/SIZE]
[i]Two vast and trunk-less legs of stone stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, half sunk, a shattered visage lies. Round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare the lone and level sands stretch far away. On the pedestal these words are inscribed:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!â€
[i]Two vast and trunk-less legs of stone stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, half sunk, a shattered visage lies. Round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare the lone and level sands stretch far away. On the pedestal these words are inscribed:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!â€
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Anna Mae - Posts: 1663
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Well, God blinding them has some precidence, God turned the heart of Pharoah as to stone, promised to do the same with people who delayed in choosing him in Revelations, ect.
With your doubt, all is comfort
We are all as we appear
No more questions left unanswered
No more wonder, no more fear
Nothing is beauty, nothing's feeling
Blood where there once was a soul
So I ask you, prove yourself
Make me believe that you are whole
We are all as we appear
No more questions left unanswered
No more wonder, no more fear
Nothing is beauty, nothing's feeling
Blood where there once was a soul
So I ask you, prove yourself
Make me believe that you are whole
- Zarn Ishtare
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Ah, and now we get into sticky theological interpretation issues.
[SIZE="4"][color="DarkSlateBlue"]God has called me to mission work in Paraguay and Brazil. I may return to CAA someday. God bless all of you![/color][/SIZE]
[i]Two vast and trunk-less legs of stone stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, half sunk, a shattered visage lies. Round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare the lone and level sands stretch far away. On the pedestal these words are inscribed:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!â€
[i]Two vast and trunk-less legs of stone stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, half sunk, a shattered visage lies. Round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare the lone and level sands stretch far away. On the pedestal these words are inscribed:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!â€
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Anna Mae - Posts: 1663
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Or we could gently tip toe away from it.
With your doubt, all is comfort
We are all as we appear
No more questions left unanswered
No more wonder, no more fear
Nothing is beauty, nothing's feeling
Blood where there once was a soul
So I ask you, prove yourself
Make me believe that you are whole
We are all as we appear
No more questions left unanswered
No more wonder, no more fear
Nothing is beauty, nothing's feeling
Blood where there once was a soul
So I ask you, prove yourself
Make me believe that you are whole
- Zarn Ishtare
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- Joined: Wed Feb 11, 2004 4:23 am
- Location: HELL HATH NO FURY, AT ALL.
Splendid idea.
[SIZE="4"][color="DarkSlateBlue"]God has called me to mission work in Paraguay and Brazil. I may return to CAA someday. God bless all of you![/color][/SIZE]
[i]Two vast and trunk-less legs of stone stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, half sunk, a shattered visage lies. Round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare the lone and level sands stretch far away. On the pedestal these words are inscribed:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!â€
[i]Two vast and trunk-less legs of stone stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, half sunk, a shattered visage lies. Round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare the lone and level sands stretch far away. On the pedestal these words are inscribed:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!â€
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Anna Mae - Posts: 1663
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That is a really good poem. Normally, I don't like poems, but I could relate to this one.
I like this line:
The warmth of her bed?
Or the Love of her heart?
Which matters more to me?
I like this line:
The warmth of her bed?
Or the Love of her heart?
Which matters more to me?
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Knives - Posts: 802
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Sounds like someone was reading their bible 
. Zarn this is incredable. 
I really like how you used the two woman in proverbs. One was Wisdom and she lead you to abundent life; while the other was Foolish and led one to death.
. Zarn this is incredable. I really like how you used the two woman in proverbs. One was Wisdom and she lead you to abundent life; while the other was Foolish and led one to death.
"Foul Beast"
Jesus is the Lord of the Kings
I love hypper people
"...art can teach without at all ceasing to be art."
"Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal."
"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."
the words of C.S. Lewis "Jack"
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