tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68324237365079416532024-03-13T17:39:23.038-07:00Tom's Word WorldYou have my word.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15183681404139467869noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832423736507941653.post-30078006892297248542015-03-02T12:49:00.000-08:002015-03-02T12:49:10.706-08:00Voiced // POEM: Sun Sunk by Thomas Rivet<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Sun Sunk</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Consume me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">O love dove,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">dive into my soul,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">unearth me like a blind</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">worm </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">or mole.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Forgive me - my impatience,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">it is my conscience,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">tired, and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">in need of a hug,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">for it has been dug</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">out from shell,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">dragged from light</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">to sombrous, wet well.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I sink, I have sunk,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I too miss</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">her radiance</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">for she shines</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">on me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">for she be</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">a lady</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">of the highest</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">degree.</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15183681404139467869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832423736507941653.post-22412489257880281562014-11-15T18:29:00.003-08:002014-11-15T18:29:46.697-08:00Voiced // SHORT: Call for Attention by Thomas Rivet<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Call for Attention</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px;">In a world filled with beauty, I wonder why we shut ourselves indoors, badgering numbers to make more precise predictions, yet we dismiss the Earth's directive, and then we shrug and wonder </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px;">why-oh-why she erupts and shakes. How else would -or should- she capture our attention, our attention beyond the lifeless machines we share our lives with?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.2999992370605px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px;">And this will cause guilt and criticism, for the author types this call for action behind a bright and shiny screen, O the hypocrisy of it all! Scrutinize if you may, but it won't do us any good.</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15183681404139467869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832423736507941653.post-88844683852698168822014-11-11T14:29:00.000-08:002014-11-11T14:29:02.412-08:00Voiced // SHORT: Lost by Thomas Rivet<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Lost</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"...because even if I were lost in the darkened woods, far removed from town or city, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">with frosty fingertips and purple ears ... I would latch onto my soul, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">hold to my every breath, and, only then, in moments of fragile existence,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">would I find myself instantly."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">And so, then, without a dearest cause,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">a yonder spotlight from the above angelic haven</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">came to me nearest, in such synchronicity, or so it seemed,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">as I stretched my forearms to the edge of thy blistered park bench.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">A whispering wind tickled my senses, nudging me towards the speckled light,</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><br />only to lift me higher, and higher; so high, so high, so close, so close,<br />to what one might be gentle to call a spiritual awakening. I was there,<br />and now I am here.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">In episodes of anger</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>THOMAS RIVET</b></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15183681404139467869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832423736507941653.post-58588047634239635652014-05-14T00:47:00.000-07:002014-05-14T00:53:27.555-07:00Voiced // POEM: Eat the Goddamn Cake by Thomas Rivet<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Eat the Goddamn Cake</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Be the water that you are,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">pure and light, like a star.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Judgement is a cloud, full</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and grey, if you let it be.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Reign over any ignorant scrutiny,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">whether cold or sly,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">give it up,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">give it up,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it isn't worth your time and effort,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">no word of a lie.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hail your uniqueness,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">be strong, be courageous,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">take no orders; eat the cake ...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">you're a goddamn snowflake!</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15183681404139467869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832423736507941653.post-39640288188073553632014-04-22T18:41:00.000-07:002014-05-07T21:06:06.896-07:00Voiced // POEM: Renewed Generosity by Thomas Rivet<div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When she's having a bad day, she doesn't cry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She may shed tears every once in a while,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but they aren't shed in the name of misery, no, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rather over an accumulation of joy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tomorrow, or later,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">she will smile, or shine,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">when she will have</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">turned grass greener,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">given trees and bushes a chance at life,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and we may curse at her while she weeps,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">with a fork, or a knife,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and for what ...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sure she makes us wet,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but she isn't in debt</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to us, the fools</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">who fail to see</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">her decency,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">her renewable generosity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>THOMAS RIVET</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Zero</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the dust</span><div>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I see lust -</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">there is a gale</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">however frail or pale,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the wind blows below me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With a whoosh</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and a whistle</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">my oily tears drizzle</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to our crust;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">our moss</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and dismissed and missed,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">loved-one loss.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In a world unjust,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">there is none to dust</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">nor shivers in the air.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">O few know,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but in our world unjust,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">zero declare.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15183681404139467869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832423736507941653.post-86917611050890030612014-03-17T15:58:00.001-07:002014-03-17T15:58:59.326-07:00Voiced // CONTEST SUBMISSION: SWEET (Student Writing Weekend in the Eastern Townships, Bishop's University)<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today I submitted a 140-character story for a contest. Contestants are students of the Eastern Townships, and more specifically at Bishop's University.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's a difficult guideline ... 140 characters for a story is restrictive and challenging.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We sit and see helplessly, unheard and silenced; actors impress. A twist
in a suit, a dress, the viewers’ faces insist for more, for less.</span><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans Narrow', serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sound familiar? That's because it has remnants of one of my previously published poems.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Find "Red Curtains Close" <a href="http://tomwordworld.blogspot.ca/2013/10/voiced-poem-red-curtains-close-by.html">here</a>.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15183681404139467869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832423736507941653.post-36953266834078312302014-02-12T06:11:00.001-08:002014-02-12T06:34:25.866-08:00Voiced // An Alternative: A Sip of Wine by Thomas Rivet<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; line-height: 18px;">Instead of consistently checking one's own phone, following its call for attention (that of a brief vibration and a reminding ring), let us replace the gesture with - and bare with with me when I say this - a sip of wine: red, white or rosé. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; line-height: 18px;">Thus propelling fruity sophistication into our world. Needless to forget its proper enchanting qualities.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; line-height: 18px;">Seeing as the gesture is frequent in nature, I propose you withhold your temptation by pinky-promising yourself to abide by Law of Moderation. Or by-pass it and let the grapes tempt your fates. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; line-height: 18px;">Cheers!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; line-height: 18px;">Yours faithfully,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; line-height: 18px;">T.Rivet</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15183681404139467869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832423736507941653.post-35671508001222574972014-02-09T21:59:00.002-08:002014-02-10T13:26:01.004-08:00Voiced // POEM: Formidable by Thomas Rivet<div>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Formidable</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">home</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to a</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">beast;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">formidable</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">morbid</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and able.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">home</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to a</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">beast;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">escape,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> be a hero,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">be an ape</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(with a cape).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">away</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>THOMAS RIVET</b></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15183681404139467869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832423736507941653.post-20117503993340881122014-01-27T23:37:00.001-08:002014-02-20T20:32:47.908-08:00Voiced // SHORT SERIES: Isabella V by Thomas Rivet [END OF SERIES]<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was slain. It's simple, see -</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the pain was very real, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">though the slayer mustn't have been, probably.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I dragged my elbows across the castle yard, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">towards that who pierced me,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I discerned a silhouette,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it couldn't be my lady of the sunshine, could it?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Her stiff lips told more than it should.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She had debt, and then none,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">as I was that which was to be let.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I and she had made few mistakes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in the last ten, maybe twenty years.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They were typically 'taken care' by me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then I weaved out of being wanted and unwanted;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by her, and our fortressed city.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Months and a dull decade until I was once more seen as city hero,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">or even sober man. I wanted to leave it all behind, and start anew.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Isabella wanted to remain close to her Kingdom ... so do so, we did.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I owned a castle in the hills. These hills were northerly, and </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">farther than four by fourteen horizons</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, approximatively. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is 'yonder abode', see.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Regretfully, Isabella couldn't live with such an</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">unflattering man.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The sky was cloudy,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">only the most determined beams of sunlight</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">made it through the wooden stables.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I tended to my steed, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">at which point, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">she must have seized my royal blade</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in the armoury,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">wandering and searching</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">for my head or knee, </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">with killer prospects, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">she saw me, </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">swung it self-indulgently</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">before my half-expecting eyes,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">into my unprotected chest, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">inflicting a stream of red splatter</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">on the yellow hay bales nearest.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Isabella then traversed the varying landscapes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to mine fort; repressing her anger and anguish to detrimental extents,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">provoking psychotic behaviour and a spiral of grief and denial. She regretted</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">doing the dirty deed. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I nonchalantly noticed her transformation, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">typically twisting my see-through spirited self </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by path of gusts and gales</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">through the walls of </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">my marvellous <i>château</i></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An assassin</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">she has unintentionally become</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and <i>long </i>denied to be ...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">now I take fancy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in irregularly reminding her</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">what <i>she </i>did to <i>me</i>.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15183681404139467869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832423736507941653.post-60852271484028828892014-01-07T14:46:00.003-08:002014-01-27T20:07:33.727-08:00Voiced // SHORT SERIES: Isabella IV by Thomas Rivet<div>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One evening, under a crimson skyline, Isabella ceased</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">her usual stroll from the muddy marshes. Her movement</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">paused as she gawked at the two fungi-ridden towers</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that stood at the entrance of our medieval-esque dwelling.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Isabella suddenly</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">felt disorientated - letting out a scream of agony,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">as she pressed her fingertips</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">on her temples to alleviate the overwhelming pain.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She took the matter in her own hands; </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">hurrying to our kitchenette -</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">stumbling and knocking herself against</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the matured wooden stools and tables</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that stood in her way. Isabella fearfully</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">searched for any item or ingredient to</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">provide healing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Isabella thought a ground-vegetable broth would resolve</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the excruciating aching. Despite her effort, it was of no avail.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She was overcome by her weakness ... and fell unconscious.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Days, weeks passed ...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Isabella rested - soon recovering from her</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">macabre fall, she then crawled to our bedroom after awakening, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">spending </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">many fortnights under the bed sheets ...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">thankfully, that is all it took to </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">have her emerge, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">almost transcendently.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Particular events preceding our way </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to our yonder abode</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">were now carefully being pieced together, and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">there were some discrepancies.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15183681404139467869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832423736507941653.post-32050003475001012572013-12-17T13:39:00.002-08:002013-12-17T13:44:34.163-08:00Voiced // SHORT SERIES: Isabella III by Thomas Rivet<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My lady of the sunshine, Isabella, soon began to wander</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the rustic whereabouts surrounding our empty abode. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Silence crept through the unsettled lands;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">waters ceased to flow, birdsong felt banished, only the winds </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">breathed down our spines.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There was a presence - <i>au contraire</i> - an absence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Isabella said nothing. She would only murmur to me; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">invariably </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ending her utterances with an adorable giggle. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Her cheeks would </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">refine, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">turning red - matching her palpable ruby lips.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She seemed detached; Isabella stopped bathing, but would return </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">drenched from the nearby marshland; mumbling profanity. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Isabella was swirling </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">into severe psychosis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Gods! Gods! Forsake not - forsake me not,"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Isabella, in impulse, exclaimed from our stone balcony,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">with no one to hear her despair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>THOMAS RIVET</b></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15183681404139467869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832423736507941653.post-66184122095218162312013-12-16T13:28:00.000-08:002013-12-16T13:53:38.808-08:00Voiced // SHORT SERIES: Isabella II by Thomas Rivet<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Isabella spoke in soft tongue; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">she could lullaby the fiercest of predators.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Her words, however, could poison the last man's blood to fatal lengths.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Without her callous charm, her and I would have never been royal lovers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Cursed you - you wretched warrior - to the depths; to the abyss with you,"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">she would reiterate to herself, as she stood in the shady corner of our bedroom.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I witnessed a glimmering tear, as she strenuously heaved her pride apart.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Isabella fell to her knees, incomplete.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What was I to do? Seek help, or let time heal all wounds?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>THOMAS RIVET</b></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15183681404139467869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832423736507941653.post-33041973250531128752013-12-15T14:03:00.004-08:002013-12-16T11:16:43.803-08:00Voiced // SHORT SERIES: Isabella by Thomas Rivet<div>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Take me yonder,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and I shall call it </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">home"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Isabella cried in desperation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Isabella now despises me;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">have I become a tame man?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It cannot be yonder,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">although tempted to wonder ...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">what other reason </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">for this irrational</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> treason?</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<b style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">THOMAS RIVET</span></b></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15183681404139467869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832423736507941653.post-55602848957730681362013-12-14T17:50:00.000-08:002013-12-14T20:36:06.487-08:00Voiced // POEM: Anger by Thomas Rivet<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">O thunderous sky</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">why do you sting</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and side with lightning?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Are you angry,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">are you in discontent?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Clouds; your Brothers,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">your grayscale blankets,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">clothe you and feed you droplets</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of Earth's freshest</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">sources and streams.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">O thunderous sky,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">cease your rumbling,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">halt your bolts,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">veer your volts,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">tell what's wrong</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and welt not</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our big blue dot.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>THOMAS RIVET</b></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15183681404139467869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832423736507941653.post-44234114730121819922013-12-11T07:12:00.001-08:002013-12-11T07:12:56.775-08:00Voiced // LESS: Silence by Thomas Rivet<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is something about silence </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that renders me </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">speechless.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>THOMAS RIVET</b></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15183681404139467869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832423736507941653.post-24716039554654769272013-12-07T12:58:00.001-08:002013-12-07T13:06:49.023-08:00Voiced // POEM: A Frolic Alcoholic Once Told Me by Thomas Rivet<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>A Frolic Alcoholic Once Told Me</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A frolic alcoholic once told me,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"when times are glum,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">have a glass or twelve of rum,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">until your toes and fingertips go numb</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and don't even bother leaving me some,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">for it grants you release and freedom."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He added,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"and I could do without,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">for my words are slu-urred</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and delve from three dozen years (or about)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in and out</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of bars and pubs along my ordinary route,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and thirst-quenching bouts of existential doubt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He stumbled and tumbled; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">turning back to face me,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">bowing in drunken glory.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>THOMAS RIVET</b></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15183681404139467869noreply@blogger.com0