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The Many Shades of Dorian Gray

A self portrait painted with self importance

paints proudly spread on a life's canvas.

The vibrant, playful tones of childhood

preoccupied hours and dillydally

wishing for tomorrow, wasting today.

Thus giving way to the lusty decalesent

hues of adolescence. Hedonistic thrusting of

paint and pallet, hastily cleaned brush and trowel

self satisfaction, no heed or need of others.

Beauty and sensual fulfillment embellish the beast.

Autumn pastel shades adorn adulthood

furtively picking up the lost pieces,

Trying comically to recapture the wasted youthful hues

dulled and dried by overuse, abuse and time.

The gray winterly landscapes come to soon,

Humbleness regains nothing, no tint nor dye,

no pill or potion can hold erect the sagging canvas

a self portrait indeed!

An audience of jackals,

crows and clowns.

 

 

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I want to thank Ian and Oscar Wilde for the inspiration to complete "The Many Shades of Dorian Gray"

author comment

and there are many
the bullies true
not knowing the flexible and expendible
ways for enhancement
soaking it all up for their common cup

rare are those who give treasures of
worth value and mirth
the merit falling back in times
needed like a rain
in the gulch of desert

my interesting friends of "other" interest
were brains and wit broadcasts
notions not hung up on the ordinary
patterns of social expectations
the shunned can maneaovure
why the goverments restrictive in
their days watched them
disgarded them to gaulags and ovens
kept files on the deviant but
more important intellectual values they
worked in

state always interested in the bedroom
more then the stateroom

excellent poem
to those that only believe in plan a or b
but there are those with many
plans
x marks the spot
the g spot
the s spot
the c spot
etc

thank U

Thank you for your kind poetic review.

author comment

Although there are many unsavory characters in the world. I think the character depicted is some ways descriptive of the natural man in all of us. The wisest among us choose to subdue the beast while those who refuse to choose self
control entertain destruction or at least a separation or dulling of their higher self.

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I have always been intrigued by the story of Dorian Gray. it is one of my favorites. I think the best lines of your poem are:

Trying comically to recapture the wasted youthful hues
dulled and dried by overuse, abuse and time.
The gray winterly landscapes come to soon, (too soon) (wintry)
Humbleness regains nothing, no tint nor dye,
no pill or potion can hold erect the sagging canvas

thanks, Cat

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