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October 27, 2011
By -LeftBehindBroken- GOLD, Providence, South Carolina
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-LeftBehindBroken- GOLD, Providence, South Carolina
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Favorite Quote:
Artists paint on canvas; Musicians paint on silence

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It started with the black velvet which enveloped the 
Heavy shutters; Only in their main surfaces, 
All unnoticed before. 
My slumbering valet. My incipient delirium, 
perhaps, 
Came to dissipate the dreamy stupor. 
If not to sleep, I should rest 
in contemplation of these pictures, 
To light the tongues of the 
Ones now long gone. 
They were confounded, subdued; 
Dreading only the pallet and brushed.

© Emily E., Marblehead, MA

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Inspired by the readings of Edgar Allan Poe :) a little free verse for you.
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