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Pere Lachaise Five into the Twentieth Death is not worth the doing Life is not worth the living So I am in-between two worlds Rotting above the ground Whilst the corpses laugh in their comfy warm beds They sleep in peace I walk upon their heads Trembling Seeking solace where there is none As the leaves fall the season will soon change I shall remain as I am Inebriated with ravens and fools In cafes with strangers Safely away from the human touch Wine flowing through my veins Wine caressing my very pains The clouds float overhead Raining on the dead and almost Feigning hopes when there is none Five and twenty blackbirds singing deaths song They offer me a map at the graveyard entrance How trite, a map to my very own hell My journey though might be a hard sell Tumble as I do upon so many stones Black roses hidden where once they were shown Bloody nights with both razor and thorn When I arrived at the morgue Surely I was scorned Adélaïde Paillard de Villeneuve You have no home, not even in death So it’s with you I wish to hold hands You the first and I who will never last

Copyright © | Year Posted 2016




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Date: 2/13/2016 2:27:00 PM
encore tres bien
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Arthur Vaso
Date: 2/13/2016 6:18:00 PM
Thanks Etienne!
Date: 2/6/2016 2:25:00 PM
An excellent write that gets its laurels from is dark and sad presentation. Last time I went to Paris I had in mind to go visit this cemetery because of Oscar Wilde's grave, but as often happens time was not on my side! ~ Regards // paul
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Arthur Vaso
Date: 2/13/2016 6:17:00 PM
Thanks Paul, if you ever get the chance its well worth the visit!
Date: 2/5/2016 3:26:00 PM
speechless :)
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Arthur Vaso
Date: 2/13/2016 6:17:00 PM
Me too! :)
Date: 2/5/2016 12:01:00 PM
It was beautiful yesterday, when I read your verses, It was a touching day reading about Salah Farah (the same day when I saw a movie of war -Hellicopter down- with action in Somalia, with men dying in a war that wasn`t their own, and also, I remembered a similar feeling when I had read about the Crusaders from both perspective ...and the shortest Surah 103 and Minima moralia of Adorno). Well, your style made me think again at the Acceptable and on Great Expectations of Reason .
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Arthur Vaso
Date: 2/13/2016 6:16:00 PM
Thank you so much for such a nice comment! :)
Date: 2/4/2016 11:43:00 PM
YOU DON'T NEED A GRAVEYARD, JUST OPEN ANOTHER BOTTLE TO YET ANOTHER INITIATE... DRINK SOME MORE WINE LET YOUR DRUNKENNESS ACCELERATE... CHEERS
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Arthur Vaso
Date: 2/13/2016 6:15:00 PM
:) thank you
Date: 2/4/2016 9:28:00 PM
A little blackish and greyish is what I like about your write. It's so beautiful.
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Arthur Vaso
Date: 2/4/2016 9:47:00 PM
Thank you very much!
Date: 2/4/2016 6:18:00 PM
Dark and mysterious and so beautifully written, Arthur. You have such a command of words and imagery, outstanding!
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Arthur Vaso
Date: 2/4/2016 9:47:00 PM
You are so very kind, thanks Laura!
Date: 2/4/2016 3:43:00 PM
This is a tremendous piece Arthur. Second to last verse I have heard no better. Truly epic
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Arthur Vaso
Date: 2/4/2016 9:47:00 PM
Thank you Tim, more appreciated than you know on this poem!
Date: 2/2/2016 6:53:00 PM
Arthur, so sadly beautiful and so beautifully and skillfully penned, I love this dark write, well done my poetic friend ~
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Arthur Vaso
Date: 2/4/2016 9:46:00 PM
Thank you very much Broken Wings! :)
Date: 2/2/2016 3:50:00 PM
The imagery is sad and dark ... these lines in particular I found so depressing and deep ' life is not worth the living So I am in-between two worlds Rotting above the ground 'I read the blog and learned so much more info about the poem and cemetery you write about - the final lines of the poem are so so touching even in death her memory still lives on:-) Hugs Jan xx7
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Arthur Vaso
Date: 2/4/2016 9:45:00 PM
Thanks Jan, Hope to be around more this weekend! :) Hugs

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