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The Lonely Old Junkie From Maraetai

The hillside stained in bloody mindlessness yet nurtured with tender care, tend heady dreams as yet to be invented, besotted, many virgin souls fragmented. An awesome power to wield, a thousand moods to create, the sluice gate of an intellect to be prised, an ambiguous logic to flounder, an infringement upon an open mind! So! The needle to be honed for the vein that waits, each day a constant need of the magic potion. ‘Hallelujah’ he conveys a wealth of empathetic emotion. For here he stands at the source of temptation, if only to taste his habitual bloom those with heads held high, swaying to a different tune. For he knows he’ll never make it to heaven, but he’s as sure as hell been to paradise, for this place ‘He swears’ the gateway to truth and sincerity! To be cast out from this rapturous spell, his body enraged, for the sunrise to him spawns the fire of ‘Hades,’ flames that ignite his troubled world. Yet his earthly script he must fulfill, if only to stumble, along society’s narrow vision, grope at its desolation, fondle its misery. ‘God! Give him strength, to return to his promised land. His! Paradise. The means to escape the foundations of a misspent youth!’ © Harry J Horsman 1994

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Date: 11/25/2018 6:25:00 PM
gosh harry, reading it again, it still sounds like drug addiction to me. So it was a thing like I was writing about prolia? So sorry that happened to you!
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Date: 7/9/2016 8:50:00 AM
A great poem congrats on your win.
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Date: 7/8/2016 4:13:00 PM
Vivid imagery for a tragic scenario. Great work, Harry! Congrats on your placement.
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Date: 7/8/2016 4:13:00 AM
Congrats Harry, for your WIN with this fine piece!! ;-)
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Date: 7/7/2016 1:37:00 PM
Harry, Congratulations on your awesome win. Stop by my blog "PAIN GETS IN THE WAY OF FORGIVENESS" if you'd like..... Love LINDA
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Date: 3/7/2013 4:50:00 PM
This is one that I remember really liking a lot in the past. It is so relevant in today's world. And I love how you made him a sympathetic character.
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Date: 2/7/2013 12:59:00 PM
Dear Harry, Whoops, I already Commented on this Masterpiece of POETRY. I did enjoy reading it again LOVE ALWAYS and FOREVER YOUR Eternal Liege...Harry
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Date: 1/4/2013 11:19:00 PM
without the junk way... I still feel like a cast out.. i never set my ways with drugs... but i sure did not spent my youth the right way... wish to escape myself... i wonder if i ever will have mercy... love~pd
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Date: 11/27/2012 12:26:00 PM
Dear Harry, An excellent description of a Junkie as I am a former Junkie I read YOUR comment to Mandy Tams ~The Golden Girl~ on her POEM "The Fires of Hell" I don't believe this is the withdrawal poem but I will keep looking, You have many stunning comments to Mandy's POEMS Nice to meet YOU ALWAYS and FOREVER YOUR Eternal Liege...Harry
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Date: 5/28/2012 1:10:00 PM
wow, I finally found THIS piece back here. What an excellent poem this is on drug addiction. I see it even won something? a VERY belated congrats to you.
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Date: 12/16/2011 9:20:00 AM
Congratulation my friend on your grand win and wish you and all yours 'a Happy Christmas Day and Happy New Year'.bl
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Date: 12/15/2011 3:40:00 PM
Too soon old too late smart aye? VERY deep write! Loved it..Congrad's Light & Love
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Date: 12/15/2011 11:34:00 AM
Congratulations on your placement in Chris' contest Harry. Love, Carol
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Date: 12/15/2011 11:13:00 AM
excellent Harry congratulations
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