WHAT VEIL, WHAT MASK What veil, what mask, what second skin Now woven by a life of sin Such layers stitched, and stylized Embroidered threads in silky lies
Woven with a virgin wool, upon a baneful loom Soft as flower petals picked, before the open bloom Web like and diaphanous, allowing room for air Deceptive words beneath the mask, pious as a prayer
Absorbing every sin confessed, and those as yet, undone Soon the mask as second skin, merge becoming one Like healing cream, rubbed gently on, soon will disappear And yet the scent, does not repent, and lingers ever near
What veil, what mask, what second skin Would jail the light, from deep within What paste or fiber lets one breathe
Yes, sin can appear seductive, decieving even the most controlled of us. The devil appears as an angel of light. The words of sin can sound like butter in the mouth, but there is war raging in the heart. You have captured just how delicate and delicious looking sin can be, yet beneath the deceptively alluring veneer lies waiting a serpent ready to pounce and bite deep. I love the illustration of all seeing eye lurking behind the veil of sin, watching our every move waiting to spot us in a moment of weakness, then...we're his (sin's).
I don't know how to comment on this, Anita for fear that my words may sound false in thier intense praise and awe. Let me just say Hail Poetess! and BRAVA for this amazing mesh of truth painted upon the soul of deception. This one goes into my library. I think it will take several reads for the depth of honesty in your verse to fully sink in.
Take care,
Sherry
MY GOODNESS!!!! Totally expletive deletive in its sheer crafted brilliance and concept, acutely woven together into the finest of poetic silks that coat the skin of the mind like liquid wax. The human psyche totally unfrocked and unmasked here, Anita, and with such delicate gossamer poetry that it's got me all of a Midsummer Night's Dream... utterly intoxicating in its Titania magic. Saving to savour again and again... "Does my face look big in this??!!" :)) assKerade Kate xx
this one is intense in it's shades of life and deception that tend to leave the reader just a little bit afraid of life and the lies revealed throughout it. Well done...masterful work.
Felix
Wonderful write Anita...Many live and die behind self-woven masks but for many the masks they wear are woven by others...it makes you wonder which is worse.
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Take care,
Sherry
Paul;-)
How bloody true this is, and so very well penned too! Pleasing rhyme you've created, not stilted in the least.
How multi-faceted you are as a writer dear one. "Bite Me," "Cosmic Sugar," and now this? Where do these multi-hued bundles of posies come from?
Richard
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Chanti
" Oh what a tangled web we weave...when at first we seek to deceive "
A master class of a write...
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Peter