Tripping Over Sleeping Lovers

Stranger on the riverbank
Walk the rolling waves
Blowing wind and make-believe
Wash it all away

Hunter on the soft hillside
Turn your eyes within
Tattoo of a predator
Belies your victim skin

Beggar of the offered nest
Hungry for a gem
Stacking golden towers up
Just to scatter them

Archer on the bridge between
Aiming for the sun
Trajectory of tragedy
Wake up, Fool, and run

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on August 21, 2009 at 1:13 pm Comments (7)
Tags: Archer, Beggar, Hunter, Sleeping lovers, Stranger

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On August 21, 2009 at 3:24 pm eebrinker said:

this makes me want to read more of your work…..

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- On August 21, 2009 at 9:29 pm Asleep On My Feet said:
  
  Be sure to check back, then! I intend to update this blog daily, if inspiration strikes. And when inspiration doesn’t strike, I have close to 500 poems I’ve written over the last 10 years… quite a lot of it is worth sharing, or so I’ve been told, so it’s bound to end up here.
  Thank you for reading! :)
  
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On August 23, 2009 at 3:18 pm Linda Ann Nickerson said:

Nice poem and formatting!

Here’s how to make the active links for comments:

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- On August 23, 2009 at 3:22 pm Asleep On My Feet said:
  
  Thank you for the help and the compliments! :)
  
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On September 12, 2009 at 6:20 am Sweetest in the Gale (Fledgling) said:

Very beautiful…I’m glad you re-posted this one so we could read it! Thanks for sharing.

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On September 12, 2009 at 9:16 am anthonynorth said:

There’s a marvellous sense of mystery in this. Excellently done.

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On September 12, 2009 at 2:13 pm Dee said:

I love this – especially “Trajectory of tragedy” . I had to say it aloud. The whole thing reads beautifully.

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