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In Her Ennui As Guinevere Waits



Tib street was awash with Hurley burly
men and street lads
The barra' boys shouting out
as the rain came down
Sheets of it, thick, wet and slimy
on the slick-backed streets

And she waits on the corner
near Affleck's Palace
where all the in-crowd shop
the out-crowd shop there too
for their tattoos and piercing parties
Guinevere, in her thick mascaraed laced-up eyes

Glory day, she smiles
she lingers, noticing every pity party
that passes her by
I smudge my lipstick in a smile
towards her languid form

She reels me in with hidden agendas
that cause my mind to split
as the tears fall
I am listless, disinterest wells up inside
sodden face to the floor
 the rain hides them so well
from the men and street lads

But not her
her with slipstream smile
devil may come eyes
black night nuances
that I want to find
I fiddle with my dress
she looks me up
down

Down to the ground
I sink
knowing she's seen right inside
a gaping wound
holed out, hollow
so hollow
She spits through it
and it fills with the splendour
of it all

For in my weakness
I am awash in the rains of her
disdain is my corsage
I wear it
for her
That is Guinevere

 

Author notes

More meanderings in the backstreets of Manchester with shadowtiger's muse Guinevere  

Written August 12th, 2005

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  • Eusebius
    September 9, 2005
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    Bravo!

    Fine, fine poem, marvelous, great cadance, just slightly mysterious. Loved it!

  • transcendental baby gold member
    August 27, 2005
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    God, does love really have to be like that ... what ever happened to it anyway ... where it had to be so raw and ugly but feel so splendourous Why is that, I wonder? ... one always hurting the other

  • NurseChilly gold member
    August 22, 2005
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    thanks hun.. glad you're enjoying them

  • August 22, 2005
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    o this is great stuff.

  • Blushfulmoon silver member
    August 18, 2005
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    excellent~

    I see many many in this poem
    You have described the imagery in this excellent as always
    Thanks again for taking me down this wonderful world of your sis Gill
    Love n hugs
    Susan~~~

  • August 12, 2005
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    glad she is inspiring you so, Gill. Now get her ass off the streets before she finds a man and leaves me j/k hehehe

  • NurseChilly gold member
    August 12, 2005
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    Ahhh Nik, you are so clever.. you got the hidden part..

    you are a god and he has flowing red hair.. lololol oohh god parsifal, thou wing'ed beauty..

  • The Bear
    August 12, 2005
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    I am left with colours of grey tall buildings crowding from above , like Huddersfield and red lipsticks, and looking in mist to see if I imagined someone there in the doorway. It make me shiver a bit because so many more things are here than you at first see. Is not just about the Guinevere, to me is about the 'hidden agendas' of the people in the street. I likely have this wrong, but it make for many readings , this one.
    He has no god but me, and I am a jealous god

  • NurseChilly gold member
    August 12, 2005
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    Thankyou my friend.. that is so very kind of you to say so.. I'm glad it could take you so far in and lead you around the city streets

  • queenie
    August 12, 2005
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    all i know is that i want to see this place physically because you took me there mentally.i was among the shoppers visiting the quaint shops that house everything imaginable.i watched a young couple get matching tatoos.i saw guin as you saw here.i was self-conscious as i watched her.i see her beauty,her mystery.i am drenched but i meander along reveling in the joys of this place.i was there because you put me there.

  • NurseChilly gold member
    August 12, 2005
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    no, I think its fine to have dreams and visions like that
    infact.. this poem came about because of a dream I had last night.. so yeah.. I completely understand

    blessings to you
    Namaste

  • ShatteredSilverStar
    August 12, 2005
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    ohh wow, i love this..i can see the muse as she walks down the street..gwenivere..meet my muse Lady Salem..ya I know weird name right? but the way I imagine her, I think she is the human form of a pet that I had that recently died..because, I did not start seeing her in my dreams untill after my pet had died..She's not a bad person..She helps me in my dreams..when ever I have a nightmare that is..I know weird right..what's wrong with me?? Is she a spirit or something?

  • NurseChilly gold member
    August 12, 2005
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    kabbooom!!
    eggy bread then for lunch?? lololol
    please can I be adopted by you.. you are so bloody gorgeous..

    Nik will have to agree of course ... hehehhe
    I love the Mary Quant referrence as Affleck's Palace is very retro.. and its so IN.. lololol
    thankyou hun

  • NurseChilly gold member
    August 12, 2005
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    ohh my
    I am embarrased now.. thankyou Monte for such wonderful words..

  • ca ne fait rien
    August 12, 2005
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    Guin is universal, isn't she. I have seen in her Charing Cross Road back in the 1970s, In La Pigalle in the 1980s, hell in Aldershot in the 1960s, ( although I did not know who she was then,) I thought she was one of my older brother's fantasies. I daresay my father saw her in every backstreet of every city in the world he was in..

    She feels Mary Quant in this poem, a worldly woman sizing up this miserable streak of man, rejecting, yet somehow compelling him to join her in the wine bar, where he will try not to stare but he will, trying to get that something from her that she teases to give.
    I come away with the neon reflections dancing in my eyes, and the rain soggy my socks through the hole in my shoe.
    Edited on Aug 12, 6:01 because 'my boiled egg exploded'.

  • NoIQ gold member
    August 12, 2005
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    I am guessing that Shadowtiger is going to be beaming with delight at this latest venture into explorations of her muse. One of the devices I most enjoyed was the "English voice" and images that you brang to the piece -- e.g., "The barra' boys shouting out / as the rain came down." The notion of a shared muse is by itself one of the more unique qualities that has emerged from the Guinevere works -- and because this muse is so different than many others, she pushes the envelope of the poet's thoughts. I really loved the imagery and evocative elements you wended into your piece here, Chilly. You captured all of her possibilities, and primal needs, in the myriad thoughts. She genuinely appears as that tempting soul with "slipstream smile / devil may come eyes / black night nuances / that I want to find." Well done, and I am sure that Shadowtiger is going to be coming by soon to thank you further the beautiful nod to her own source of great inspiration.


  • Blazing White Wolf
    August 12, 2005
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    oh you have written some great imagary here this was quite the captivating read nice job!!
    love and light
    blaze

  • NurseChilly gold member
    August 12, 2005
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    I think you'll find you read one of the other Guin poems I did too
    but thankyou for dropping by

  • NurseChilly gold member
    August 12, 2005
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    thankyou

  • ceXee
    August 12, 2005
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    i first started to read this and i thought 'this person is copywriting' , i felt like i had read it before and now i see you wrote it from shadow's Guin. this was pretty interesting, you painted it well.

  • little miss
    August 12, 2005
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    good poem
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