Danse Macabre

by SCARECROW   Jul 15, 2005


My apologies for the delay. About Danse Macabre, I have very little knowledge about the depth of my own poem (yes, strange, I know). Yet what I DO know is that each two paragraphs follow the same word count structure, so to speak. An example is the first pair, they both follow a 4,3,4,4 word count. Also, the name danse macabre, it is French.
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Perchance it is rare,
this resourceful echo
of a disembodied heart
that hit the floor.

Perchance it is found,
the antique thesis
of a libidinous heretic
who sang with seraphs.

Yet fail to hear the calling
of the futile mandrake stalling
the nascence of the nightmare's incognito.

So raptured is this carnal thief
now trapped in sepulchral belief
he discerns the falsest dreams spun.

A mother holds her newborn child
in a cataleptic umbilical noose.

A priest engulfed in abandoned holiness
drinking his lonely histrionic chants.

Thus it is broken with time,
the hymen of our innocence.

With our insignia or our legacy,
we dance the danse macabre.

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  • 18 years ago

    by Missing Angel Juan

    + also a band name (old NZ band), an album name (Danse Macabre - The Faint) and a book by Stephen King. i like the last lines, "With our insignia or our legacy,
    we dance the danse macabre." cool man.

  • 18 years ago

    by Shædow Poet

    Oh my! You're back! Welcome back to posting!
    I loved this, it felt so... alone. And desperate. It was beautifully written, of course, but that's no surprise.
    I love your work, and I can imagine a collection of your dark poems in a book. And when that happens, I will be the first to buy it. Because you are so bloody talented. And you better realise that. Keep writing- because the gift you had would be wasted if you stopped.

  • 18 years ago

    by AhmadAfaneh

    WOW! nice job i know that i have a rele long way to reach this perfect level in writing.

    Plz read some of my poems n give me some comment abt how i can be like u in writing.

  • 18 years ago

    by Fighter (Ariane L.)

    wow... so dark and so beautiful!!! i love the words you used... very powerful. keep it up!
    -xXx-

  • 18 years ago

    by Solace

    Very nicely written. I loved the way you wrote the whole poem. 5/5 none to less. Keep writing and take care (always))xx:

    *> : PainOfOne

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