Date:         Tue, 28 Jan 1997 15:13:22 -0800
Subject:      SUB: Valentine's Contest: "Renascence":poetry

There's still time to send your entry! Check out
http://web.mit.edu/mbarker/www/val97/val.html for details.

Please reserve all critiques on contest entries until after Valentine's
Day!
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Renascence

So long have I walked the night alone,
clutching darkness to my breast,
a cloak of shadows in which I shroud
sins too loathsome to behold.

Should not centuries of loneliness
have dampened all my senses,
extinguished all trace of desire
from this dark and weary soul?

Yet it has not deterred the flame
that now burns so brilliantly
within this heart that isolation
for many years could not subdue.

Now the whisper of her name
lingers so richly in my mind,
pervading each and every thought
and suffusing all my dreams.

But the cadences of mortal hearts
still drum sweetly at my ears,
rousing vile hunger kept barely caged
by steel bars of sorrow and regret.

Yet knowing this she does not waver,
the caress of her lips is no less warm
for through her heart she can see beyond
the monster...to the man...who is me.


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