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Envy

Green. It's not natural - nature's beautiful and free. This colour, it confines me. A steel cage bound in barbed wire. Every escape route, a torturous invitation. It controls me, possesses me. My decisions and actions no longer my own. No, not natural - artificial. Made by man, by their mistakes. So deadly ... Poisonous. It dances; smiriking, mocking. It glides, ripping my wounds. Not natural, but still fresh. The pain doubles and red seeps into green. It injects it's fury, it's anger. An explosive concoction. It's subtle, hiding itself from view. It sits ... no, it stalks. This colour can not stay still, never stopping its destructive path. But it's too late, we're always too late. Envy has pounced.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2011




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Date: 2/24/2011 10:02:00 AM
Congratulations Vicki, on your well deserved win for your poem in Debbie Guzzi's contest "Anything Goes". Love, Carol
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Date: 2/15/2011 11:49:00 AM
I really like the way you describe the destructiveness of envy, Vicki. Well said. Congratulations on your win in Deb's contest! Love, Carolyn
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Date: 2/15/2011 1:44:00 AM
Congrat's on your WIN vicki! Lainie
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Date: 2/14/2011 8:14:00 PM
Congratulations on your winning in Debbie's contest with this entry. It is quite descriptive.
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Date: 2/14/2011 8:12:00 PM
Congrats Vicki on your success in Debbie's contest with this brilliant beauty luv.. enjoy...
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Date: 2/14/2011 6:45:00 PM
Congratulations on your win. Love, Joyce
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Date: 2/12/2011 6:46:00 AM
Vicki very good work your form is FREE VERSE, poems can not be ranked in conests labeled "I don't know" please change the form label. BIG thanks for the great entry! Light & Love
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Date: 2/12/2011 6:22:00 AM
Good one that is very descriptive and expressive for sure..I am glad that I stopped by to read about the green eyed monster..Sara
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