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50 Words For Poe: Styx

"50 Words for Poe: Styx"
Sleep now Your Nepenthe has been taken listen to your dream what you pay alms for requires surveillance this is where she is reached and seen in her dreams she dreams within your dream He whistles in with the wind Like King of the Hill Incubus sucks her soul in she sits in his boat long bare legs wearing Red killer stilettos, "Persimmon" on her wiggling toenails She's all covered in Sin she smells good, ripe for kissing sailing on Styx towards some kind of destiny Him and his hot dream on their first tryst this vetoes all need for safe religion when he looks at himself, God is in the mirror staring back at Him He smiles a Jack Nicholson grin In vivid hues of Blue he dreams to win She whispers, “Baby come here, come in” This is all he needs He's already on his knees She becomes His strange new religion The Black Raven softly sings Purple is the colour not Red, that 'reals' him in (LadyLabyrinth/2019)
"And I'm not one for thinking twice, But I know this much is true, The earth will turn and powder burns, And you are my revolver."
Strange Religion, Mark Lanegan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAQZKbUkK_0
The Red Shoes, Kate Bush
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbbPPy_bNM4
Lily, Kate Bush
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWaqPOnR5wU
Moments of Pleasure, Kate Bush
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW5hjWVS3ho
Revolver, Campbell/Lanegan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT1Y0m8MX2I
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Styx Purple https://www.bourncreative.com/meaning-of-the-color-purple/ https://www.colormatters.com/the-meanings-of-colors/purple Red https://www.bourncreative.com/meaning-of-the-color-red/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Shoes_(fairy_tale) Blue https://www.bourncreative.com/meaning-of-the-color-blue/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepenthe

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Date: 3/19/2019 8:41:00 AM
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Date: 3/19/2019 8:41:00 AM
Ah. Avalon...
Date: 3/19/2019 8:39:00 AM
Oberon: This falls out better than I could devise. But hast thou yet latch'd the Athenian's eyes With the love-juice, as I did bid thee do? Puck: I took him sleeping,—that is finish'd too, And the Athenian woman by his side: That, when he waked, of force she must be eyed. [Enter HERMIA and DEMETRIUS] Oberon: Stand close: this is the same Athenian. Puck: This is the woman, but not this the man.
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Date: 3/19/2019 8:23:00 AM
“Through the forest have I gone. But Athenian found I none, On whose eyes I might approve This flower's force in stirring love. Night and silence.--Who is here? Weeds of Athens he doth wear: This is he, my master said, Despised the Athenian maid;
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Date: 3/19/2019 8:22:00 AM
And here the maiden, sleeping sound, On the dank and dirty ground. Pretty soul! she durst not lie Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy. Churl, upon thy eyes I throw All the power this charm doth owe. When thou wakest, let love forbid Sleep his seat on thy eyelid: So awake when I am gone; For I must now to Oberon.” William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Date: 3/19/2019 8:20:00 AM
“If we shadows have offended, Know but this and all is mended. That you have but slumbered here, While these visions did appear, And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding, but a dream.” William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Date: 3/19/2019 8:18:00 AM
“Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold -
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Date: 3/19/2019 8:16:00 AM
That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.” Shakespeare William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Date: 3/19/2019 8:15:00 AM
“Lord, what fools these mortals be!” William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Date: 3/19/2019 8:14:00 AM
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Date: 3/19/2019 8:13:00 AM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Midsummer_Night%27s_Dream
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