My key wouldn't open the padlock :-D

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Salvador Oria
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My key wouldn't open the padlock :-D

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I found my old barn door locked and bolted, thus I'll publish my last poem in here.

Perhaps Mr Burns would be kind enough to move there, later on, a copy for the record... thanks!

As some of you might be aware of, the two sister writers' sites MSNThePleasureDome;ahomeforwriters, and Dome 2 will disappear very soon from the web. Both were created by the late Suzie Pritchard, had their heyday in 2004/2005 and for the past two years their managers have done their best to ruin whatever good was left in them. Seven years ago, I was looking for a writers' site to post my poems. A London publisher I knew sent me to ask Ms. Pritchard and gave me her e-address. I was accepted in the Pleasure Dome, and this is how my poetry in English was "born" to the British public. Soon after that, one of my poems was published by a Glos magazine and the rest is history now. This history is what prompted me to write a kind of farewell to The Pleasure Dome.

SUNK, STEM FIRST

No matter what her pirate master did
to save from doom his captured paper Titanic,
she went down to the bottom of the web sea
with the loss of all hands to coldness and obscurity.

The old battered hull found no carpenter to fix
its rotten planks nor one to mend her wind-ragged sails;
a noise, the sea rushed in, the broken rudder failed
and her helm spun without control. All gone to hell.

Her creator watched all this, unable to intervene;
Suzie’s now only the wood-carved figurehead...

Oh, poor old ship where I was born so many years ago
I’ll pray for you. Now, the time has come for me to go.

Salvador Oria
Remembrance Day, 2008
"...my dreams were all my own; i accounted for them to nobody; they
were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free."
mary shelley in her author's introduction to "frankestein", 1831.
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