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Portrait of Denial
First a sketch
Only parallel lines
Watch them fuse
Become intersected linked
Shade the outline
Circle the complication
Embellish the flaws
Realign despondency
Find a stencil
To reprint monotony
So you can fracture identification
Then fasten antagonism
Take a brush
Simple strokes of sanguine
Overlap with onyx
Futile and expressionless
A splendiferous pallor
Finishes the illustrated
It is a speculum
The portrait of denial
Only parallel lines
Watch them fuse
Become intersected linked
Shade the outline
Circle the complication
Embellish the flaws
Realign despondency
Find a stencil
To reprint monotony
So you can fracture identification
Then fasten antagonism
Take a brush
Simple strokes of sanguine
Overlap with onyx
Futile and expressionless
A splendiferous pallor
Finishes the illustrated
It is a speculum
The portrait of denial
Published 4th Nov 2012
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4th Nov 2012 12:37pm
4th Nov 2012 1:07pm
4th Nov 2012 2:20pm
The poem had me view the portrait of the person with a flabby mind screwing every behavior. This was pretty good.
-Evan
-Evan
4th Nov 2012 3:10pm
4th Nov 2012 4:01pm
Painted a picture, of what was happening clearly. Very visual, with the mix in of emotion, very nice :)
4th Nov 2012 8:52pm
5th Nov 2012 12:18pm
so is it about getting married and living out the bleak existence we are all doomed to?
5th Nov 2012 1:34pm
No. it's sort of a metaphor. Portrait of denial is about looking into a mirror and "fixing" ones appearance. Cosmetics, cover ups, ect. It basically describes wanting to change oneself and self hatred. A speculum is a reflective surface, in this case, as I said before, a mirror.
