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The Hope Thieves

"The Hope Thieves" Colours change chameleon fast The Hope Thieves steal dreams to make up for their own lost lives and fast-draining upside-down hour glass pasts In their hearts a million silent cries In their minds a million worlds collide Lost, cunning and sly, they drink up pure essence of Hope and Trust like blood sucking vampires patrolling the crowded underpasses and the jungled overgrown potent gardens of trysting rose-glassed lovers and soothsaying sage-green poets They exist as shadow people dark and full of shallow notes In their lives a million reasons why In their world all doors shut inside They exist on the outside Looking for the key to open their own home doors wide Lost husbands and brides, petulant, deriding The Others, Ghosts of romantic scribes finding freedom in wide open Blue Skies The Hope Thieves steal dreams to make up for their own lost lives Colours change chameleon fast (LadyLabyrinth/2019) https://youtu.be/rQiyyoLF05A Emika/Take Me for a Ride “Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.” https://youtu.be/jG6s7W9yG_c Emika/Mouth to Mouth “The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.”

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Lady Labyrinth

Date: 4/14/2019 7:01:00 PM

“Hold onto your innocence of heart, at all costs. Because it is the spark of deity that you are born with. Don’t let the trolls steal your divineness.”

Leanne Lovejoy-Burton
Date: 4/14/2019 7:09:00 PM

https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/calamus_gladio_fortior_995900?title=calamus_gladio_fortior&id=995900

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 4/14/2019 6:58:00 PM

"Trolls suck." Betty White

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 4/14/2019 6:57:00 PM

“You know that eye-to-eye recognition, when two people look deeply into each other's pupils, and burrow to the soul? It usually comes before love. I mean the clear, deep, milk-eyed recognition expressed by the poet Donne. Their eyebeams twisted and did thread their eyes upon a double string. My father recognized that the Professor was a Troll, and the Professor recognized my father's recognition. Both of them knew that the Professor had eaten his wife." The Troll/ T.H. White

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 4/14/2019 6:50:00 PM

“But vampires feel cold as acutely as humans, and the blood of the kill is often the rich, sensual alleviation of that cold. But ...” Interview with a Vampire

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 4/14/2019 6:44:00 PM

“Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds -- justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can't go on. To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.” Lestat

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 4/14/2019 6:45:00 PM

“Strong women are absolutely unpredictable.” Lestat

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 4/14/2019 6:38:00 PM

“what I felt was inexpressible gratitude for the music, that in this horror there could be something as beautiful as that.”

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 4/14/2019 6:27:00 PM

"There's no set-in-stone way to be a vampire, especially with the evil ones."

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 4/14/2019 7:16:00 PM

Baked Beans...go do your homework and brush your teeth....here's dessert (https://youtu.be/oLf5N-jHX-A)

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 4/14/2019 6:49:00 PM

“What can the damned really say to the damned?” Vampire Chronicles

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 4/14/2019 6:46:00 PM

"born".