This week for the Saturday “Literary Prompt,” the Rattling Bones provides a signature line from Oscar Wilde:
“To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”
(The Importance of Being Earnest)
You affect an air of
indifference
the cloak of Wilde
draped upon your languid form.
You write of
grief, but never mourned.
You write of
experience, but never lived.
You write of
passion, but never loved.
You write of
caresses, but never touched.
You write of
me, but never cared.
Written before the caffeine of that first coffee kicked in.
@ phylor 2015
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I love repetition, repetition, it gives so much more starch to meaning…..well done..
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Thanks. Glad repetition, repetition isn’t repetitive.
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Works works for me me
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Thank Thank you you.
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I agree with Lori–damn good, caffeine or no!!
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Thanks!
I’m sure sometimes that my muse is caffeine!
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Could be!
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well, I have to say that is damn good to be written before the caffeine rush hits! The repetition works brilliantly! And I love the line and title “cloak of Wilde”
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The odd thing is that this week I’d been thinking of GB Shaw and Wilde. That was the very Wildian quote that was running through my head.
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Oh wow.. talk about synchronicity! That is just too cool :D
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I believe in synchronicity and serendipity.
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