When they look at him
He feels old
And his skin falls away
Feeling eyes on naked body
Closing lid on corpse awake
Falling earth on tomb alive

He turns his cracking neck
Into the gloom
His decaying feet
Stumble to the dark

Their eyes fall away
And in his solitude
Rejuvenated flesh
And mended bones
He heals
He heals when he’s alone

Peering from the grave
Braving light
And stretching youthened limbs
He crawls from his dark sheltered hole
Tainted earth marring flawless skin
He stands imperfect once again

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My teacher wants me to add punctuation to this (bah!) and I hate it. More importantly... I need a title.


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All the prism in the world couldn't make hue.

Yay! It's the "peering from the grave" thing....

It's YOUR poem. If you don't want puntuation, so be it.

The title should have something to do with the main theme, it can hint at the theme or plainly state it, or alude to it mysteriously (like a poem itself does sometimes).

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The Mega-ZZTer's Gaming Haven!

Bot Pack JO | Let's Roll JK | Bespin JA | Patch Enforcer JK/Mots | Pac-Man JK

No, she's making me add punctuation to it. She even wrote in what I need to add. Gr. Teachers suck.

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All the prism in the world couldn't make hue.

I think I'll call it Cryptic Submission, simply because I'm bored and it had a lot of various possible meanings. Cryptic as in a crypt? or as in mysterious? Submission as in giving in? or as in submitting a poem for a contest? Heheh.

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All the prism in the world couldn't make hue.

Yeah, I think this title fits. Fitzgerald Kennedy, yeah. I like dark poems.

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"Häb Pfrässe, süsch chlepfts!" - The coolest language in the world (besides Cherokee)

It made me think of Reg Shoe, the City Watchman in Discworld that got killed during a revolution and came back as a zombie copper.

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[Blue Mink Bifocals !] [fsck -Rf /world/usr/] [<!-- kalimonster -->] [Capite Terram]
"You'll have to face it, the endings are the same however you slice it. Don't be deluded by any other endings, they're all fake, with malicious intent to deceive, or just motivated by excessive optimism if not by downright sentimentality. The only authentic ending is the one provided here: John and Mary die. John and Mary die. John and Mary die." -Happy Endings [Margeret Atwood]
NPC.Interact::PressButton($'Submit');

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There are two asses in Massassi... and I'm one of them.
The Matrix Unplugged|The Valley of the Jedi Tower|Smaug's Lair

Strip for me, you dirty little boy!

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All the prism in the world couldn't make hue.

I understand if you hate me.

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All the prism in the world couldn't make hue.

Noes!

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There are two asses in Massassi... and I'm one of them.
The Matrix Unplugged|The Valley of the Jedi Tower|Smaug's Lair

I love you, it's just no nakedness.

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There are two asses in Massassi... and I'm one of them.
The Matrix Unplugged|The Valley of the Jedi Tower|Smaug's Lair

I thought maybe you got hired to be a designer for id.

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Bassoon, n. A brazen instrument into which a fool blows out his brains.

this is original

t-virus! yeah thats a good name

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-If you don't know, then don't ask...