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Cleo_Serapis

Jun 29 05, 19:25

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The January, 2005 Member's Choice results are in!

Congrats to Ephiny for winning our January Member's Choice Award with her tile, 'Playground Reflections' !!

WAY TO GO "E"!

Your entry will be displayed along with a 'special graphic' in your signature! You have led your Muse to bask in the glory of the crown jewel ~ Member Choice.

Congratulations! You have added a tile to our Mosaic in style. Thank you! JOY to you, oh mighty one!

Cheers!
Mosaic Musings Staff

Member Choice Award Winner

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Playground Reflections

Metal glow of winter on wasteland,
amongst pictures, paint and plastic,
chalk-lined concrete.
Scattered colours of childhood,
streaking with sunlight.
Grey daytime shouting
stirs echoes everywhere.

A child waits here for this day to end,
dread, a hungry animal,
sapping all that it can.

I walk past, looking back
to a script which is somehow set
here, in the half-light chill
where frost fades and bruises ache,
through long years.
I can no longer tell one child from another;
parts merged together.
They know as well as I,
this is no game.

Voices long silenced crying in unison
for forgotten words, pink-nosed,
swaddled in loving scarves.
One child drags himself across hard-packed ground,
those in pursuit, concealed,
closer than he thinks.

Nearer now.
I reach for that star
of old, embarrassed nightmares.
My eyes follow loud laughter,
a cold sneer, inverted screams.
I almost feel the pinch of cold fingers,
the blade of a smile,
the images, invisible in glass,
of themselves that they see within each other.

Two children wait for this day to end.
One, to run to safety and the other,
planning the next day’s torment
out of his own.

Copyright © 2005, Lucie Kavanagh
All rights reserved as an unpublished work.

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