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Unsheathed Sword

Oh ...I will not! ...see you ...left... crepuscular ones! though I turn my eyes away from your visceral hungry-ed movements, your quests to be fed in shadows, the babied darkness on ink tip of night ...upon which you suckle I do not, I will not, witness your skulking muscular moves with sonorous cellular revulsion... NO! I will dissolve your desultory moroseness with this transcendent blade So opulent and exuberant is THIS...unsheathed light! Oh You, like the Halcyon...nesting in your only twilight...only one night ...are you too cynical for any other day or time? ...and filled with jealousy ...like the penumbra? neither fully dark nor fully light...your painful "shades of...gray" will simply milk away ... when shielded by loves might

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Poet Destroyer A

Date: 2/6/2016 8:52:00 PM

Hi Ingrid, thank you for the kind reply

Poet Destroyer A

Date: 2/6/2016 9:38:00 AM

Ingrid, Congratulations on your "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" ten-word challenge WIN!" Love LINDA

Ingrid Showalter Swift
Date: 2/6/2016 3:24:00 PM

Thank you Linda! Fun!

Anthony Mark

Date: 2/4/2016 8:23:00 PM

Very sensual,

Ingrid Showalter Swift
Date: 2/6/2016 3:25:00 PM

Hi Mark, it has had that effect although that was not the original intent LOL

Skat A

Date: 2/2/2016 10:45:00 PM

Ingrid,, Congrats on your ten-word challenge WIN. ** SKAT **

Ingrid Showalter Swift
Date: 2/4/2016 7:13:00 AM

Thank you so much

Susan Gentry

Date: 2/2/2016 6:35:00 PM

Congratulations on your win!

Ingrid Showalter Swift
Date: 2/4/2016 7:13:00 AM

Thank you Susan

Lin Lane

Date: 2/2/2016 10:52:00 AM

Your unsheathed sword was a sharp tongue... well done, Ingrid.

Lin Lane
Date: 2/2/2016 11:00:00 AM

Sometimes a scream is needed to be heard.

Ingrid Showalter Swift
Date: 2/2/2016 10:58:00 AM

LOL Thank you Lin..I actually tamed it down from the first draft. It came into this world kicking n screaming

James Inman

Date: 2/2/2016 9:33:00 AM

A touch of Shakespeare here, Ingrid, lovely. Your comment explaining the write is interesting. I found when I read the piece to be about the over coming of human frailty in a relationship. At first thought I understood Richards reference to the sword (I think a combination of the title and the male mind), but as I read it the sword represented the all encompassing power of good and the idea if only we love strongly enough we can overcome anything (in this case anyone). Thought provoking.

Ingrid Showalter Swift
Date: 2/2/2016 11:32:00 AM

Thank you James. I like your assessment-pretty spot on ...but I also believe poems live in the eye of both reader and writer...whatever meaning is found ... and of course I love the praise! :)

Balveen Cheema

Date: 2/1/2016 7:10:00 PM

Congrats on your well deserved placement, Ingrid!

Ingrid Showalter Swift
Date: 2/2/2016 7:58:00 AM

Thank you Balveen

Richard Lamoureux

Date: 1/27/2016 10:25:00 AM

I think this is quite brilliantly written, great use of imagery and it drew me in. I found the "Unsheathed Sword" to be phalic although I do not know for sure that it was your intent. You also ended in light which speaks for to my personal preference.

Ingrid Showalter Swift
Date: 1/27/2016 10:28:00 AM

Hello Richard Well, can't say it was meant to be phalic but I get how you see it that way. I was more concerned it was too star wars ...lazer light like LOL. I worked much harder on the editing of this than usual...it did not come easily to it's final form so the compliment on this one is a rejoice! for me. Thank you!

Ingrid Showalter Swift

Date: 1/26/2016 5:10:00 PM

This one was first a rather violent battle poem between good and evil ...when I tried to turn it into something more hopeful and less damning it may have gotten a bit cork screwed LOL Still a fun contest :)