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DAWN TROW
Contest of Lies


Masters of the art, scheming, devising,
creating lies, sweet bitter lies, more
sweeter than bitter. Seducing, alluring,
bewitching trusting victims, flies drawn
to a honey pot of sugared lies. Skills
match: two liars like peacocks parade
talents of iced deceitfulness.

"Opponent, lie to me! Drop me to dirty
depths! Revel in your creative juices,
your falsely sweetened juices so sweet.   
Lies born of such a splendid juice engage
my thirst to compete.  Bedazzle me with
silken lies, flowing, rushing from your
river mouth of silken lies. Oh your sweet
lies, dressed to kill, to break my will.
Beautiful tainted lies I cannot despise.
Beautiful tainted lies I only adore.

Oh their laces, sequins, frills add
to my thrills. Lies. Yes, tainted
bitter sweet lies. I love their flattery.
You did well my lying lord. Now, my time
mine to show my flair and outdo you with
one fatal blow of my deceitful sword.
Watch how I can, oh yes I certainly can,
enthrall you with my oral stunts. Sweet
lies to butter you, a tower of sandwiched
lies with mayonnaise of course. Fibbing
foe, know a liar the same as you. In fluid
fact, your falsehood foolery, an equality.

Your lies wondrous and extravagant tall tales.
Equals in our lucid lying game. We master words
over stale boring truth. To live
a lie is to be a lie;
compete with me!"


Dawn Trow, a poet from Wales, debuts in PoetryRepairShop.

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DYLAN THOMAS
In My Craft or Sullen Art

In my craft or sullen art
Exercised in the still night
When only the moon rages
And the lovers lie abed
With all their griefs in their arms,
I labour by singing light
Not for ambition or bread
Or the strut and trade of charms
On the ivory stages
But for the common wages
Of their most secret heart.
Not for the proud man apart
From the raging moon I write
On these spindrift pages
Nor for the towering dead
With their nightingales and psalms
But for the lovers, their arms
Round the griefs of the ages,
Who pay no praise or wages
Nor heed my craft or art.
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DAWN TROW selects another poet from the land where people breathe poetry - Wales. DYLAN THOMAS, one of my personal favorite poets, is THE 20th Century master of English language.

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