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November 5, 2011
By Afanen PLATINUM, Santa Rosa, California
Afanen PLATINUM, Santa Rosa, California
49 articles 0 photos 47 comments

Favorite Quote:
"But you see, Meg, just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist."


- Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time


Would you like to buy a ticket?
said the master to the girl.
And how could I refuse
the lure of the whirl in your smile?

Snow glare was our disguise,
and gold-gilt poles that glittered
east-to-west, in a spectrum
of white and blue.

The winds blew ice flakes
into my eyes,
they bit and stung, narrowed,
my horizons shrank to you.

You were beautiful, so bright,
your gaily colored wooden horses
spun us
'round and 'round.

A perfect picture show
you painted
in mirrors and cracked glass,
I thought it showed me everything.

When dusk gathered,
and the flying flakes slowed
to a thinning veil of bright,

I saw our horses
could only run
in circles.



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on Jan. 29 2012 at 6:52 pm
Afanen PLATINUM, Santa Rosa, California
49 articles 0 photos 47 comments

Favorite Quote:
"But you see, Meg, just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist."


- Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

Thanks a bunch!

on Jan. 29 2012 at 6:02 pm
Seelix PLATINUM, Chandler, Arizona
20 articles 3 photos 72 comments
This was really creative! Great job =)

on Jan. 29 2012 at 10:41 am
Afanen PLATINUM, Santa Rosa, California
49 articles 0 photos 47 comments

Favorite Quote:
"But you see, Meg, just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist."


- Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

Thank for reading it!

on Jan. 27 2012 at 9:49 pm
Afanen PLATINUM, Santa Rosa, California
49 articles 0 photos 47 comments

Favorite Quote:
"But you see, Meg, just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist."


- Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

Thank you!

on Jan. 27 2012 at 7:58 am
leanna scolastico, West Carrollton, Ohio
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your welcome

on Jan. 27 2012 at 3:51 am
BlameJuliet BRONZE, West Ocean City, Maryland
3 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
Tell me my words mean nothing to you, and one day they will become a poem, and that poem will be on the page of a book, which will one day sit on the bookshelf in your nursing home, and maybe you will smile. And just maybe that smile will be one of approval, or maybe realization, happy to know you were wrong. Happy that your criticism made me stronger, a better writer even. Maybe you will feel accomplished.

This is a very nice piece.

K-Rhyme GOLD said...
on Jan. 26 2012 at 8:08 pm
K-Rhyme GOLD, Georgetown, Kentucky
14 articles 0 photos 6 comments

Favorite Quote:
Art is the only way to run away with out leaving home
-Twyla Tharp

very nice, brilliant.

on Jan. 25 2012 at 11:08 pm
Afanen PLATINUM, Santa Rosa, California
49 articles 0 photos 47 comments

Favorite Quote:
"But you see, Meg, just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist."


- Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

Thank you!

EEnriquez said...
on Jan. 25 2012 at 10:35 pm
EEnriquez, Newark, New Jersey
0 articles 0 photos 3 comments
Nice work, keep it up.

on Jan. 25 2012 at 7:13 pm
Afanen PLATINUM, Santa Rosa, California
49 articles 0 photos 47 comments

Favorite Quote:
"But you see, Meg, just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist."


- Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

Thank you for reading!

asofnow GOLD said...
on Jan. 25 2012 at 11:25 am
asofnow GOLD, Troy, Michigan
18 articles 0 photos 208 comments

Favorite Quote:
Nothing gold can stay ~ Robert Frost

I liked the ending! check out my wrk.. "Stitched" and leave a review please!