APW: Herod (667 hits)
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Rating: 1.92 on 32 reviews (Rate this item) (V)
Submitted by Orgasmatron (View user info) at 2007-01-24 23:57:31 EST
A convenient day was come, and before
Antipas the woman began to dance,
Fluid and maddening, as drawn water,
Severe and inspiring, as open flame,
Moving as a woman should move in time
Blanketed in the slow beat of a drum,
Shrouded by singing silver's simple ring
She floats, stirs the air and lives in echoes,
Backlit the shadows fall upon the face
Of the crowned king, black handprints on his eyes
Beckoning, midnight fingers, moving hips
Moving in time for the woman of fire,
The woman of drawn water
Dancing in smoke.
Inbreathed a drug, doubled pulse precise
With the hammer and the heavy hand
Moving over something once an animal,
Now tamed and stretched, as she stretches
Untamed, barefoot and her hair a bloody mess
Of red tangles, now blonde in the caught sunlight,
Now black in the hungry shade, elemental,
Slithering through the eyes, infectous,
Drawn into the lungs and around the heart
All too quickly, all too simple the
Seduction, the untrained seduction,
The movement of the woman and the
Taking of a man, a soul possessed, stunned,
Made simple by a convenient day and
Drumbeat, Oriental, exotic, the arching
Eyes and the serpentine shake,
Waterfall fingers and the backs of her knees,
Free breasts moving heavy below the robe
As full lips whisper out a name.
A man could lose himself to such a thing,
Men would die for less,
Men have died for less.
I will give you anything
I will offer you the world if you but ask for it.
There is screaming beyond the beat,
I beg you play louder,
Blood remains on the silver and steel,
But cannot stain the music.
Play on.
User Reviews
Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2007-01-26 09:57:29 EST (#)
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Bubs, you cannot appreciate or understand the restraint it took to not make the 'baroque/fix it' joke immediately upon posting this. I consider it a personal triumph of sorts.
It's a goodly line though. I'm glad someone mentioned it.
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2007-01-26 08:45:42 EST (#)
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Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2007-01-25 11:25:12 (#)
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Well if it was good enough for the Baroque period, it's good enough for the modern era.
No sense in people putting on airs for no good reason.
However, I am a fair and understanding man.
Here's a 'titty-out' free one for you: http://www.wga.hu/art/p/poussin/2a/17sabin1.jpg
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It's baroque? Why, did you bareak it?
Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2007-01-26 08:35:32 EST (#)
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It's 14 degrees here. WTF.
Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2007-01-25 22:49:52 EST (#)
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I meant Herod Antipas in the title, not Herod the Great.
And yes, "before" was intended to mean "in front of," not "occuring years prior to."
But everyone makes their own interpretation. This is a beautiful thing.
I figured if there was a question at all about the title it'd be "why is Herod named in the title at all?"
Submitted by Wisher (user info) at 2007-01-25 22:26:57 EST (#)
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Yes! I got the usual call ~ not like I was drunk or anything last nite, but i let someone else have it for the nite since I wasn't using it, and left with others. Only thing is they're in Pensacola, and I'm too lazy to call anybody to take me to it this late. For here {Dauphin Island, Alabama} it's FREEZING, like 52 degrees. I can't go out in that. That may sound like joke but I can't take cold. I'm a wuss. But only when it comes to cold.
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2007-01-25 21:33:46 EST (#)
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But more importantly, Wisher, did you find your car?
The wind chill factor is going to be 8 degrees F here tomorrow.
Submitted by Wisher (user info) at 2007-01-25 21:24:48 EST (#)
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Re-reading, I see your point, Sac. It's floating there like The Baptist's head, just out of reach.
Submitted by Wisher (user info) at 2007-01-25 21:22:03 EST (#)
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I interpreted it as he meant/or should have used Salome, but confused the names. Who cares, really? I can't remember where I left my car last nite. ha
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2007-01-25 21:16:20 EST (#)
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"and before (linebreak) Antipas the woman began to dance"
-As in "for" or "in front of" Antipas, is how I interpreted it.
Submitted by Wisher (user info) at 2007-01-25 21:01:09 EST (#)
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Antipas the woman began to dance
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Ahmm, Antipas was *son* of Herod.
Perchance I should re-read?
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2007-01-25 20:49:36 EST (#)
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"Shrouded by singing silver's simple ring
She floats, stirs the air and lives in echoes"
Perfect.
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2007-01-25 14:06:44 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Doogsterville (user info) at 2007-01-25 11:29:16 EST (#)
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Thanks for reminding me why I didn't enter the Ubertines contest. There's no way in hell I can compete with that!
Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2007-01-25 11:25:12 EST (#)
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Well if it was good enough for the Baroque period, it's good enough for the modern era.
No sense in people putting on airs for no good reason.
However, I am a fair and understanding man.
Here's a 'titty-out' free one for you: http://www.wga.hu/art/p/poussin/2a/17sabin1.jpg
Submitted by Anansie (user info) at 2007-01-25 11:17:46 EST (#)
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I'll remember that next time someone begs me for it.
Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2007-01-25 11:14:31 EST (#)
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Um, hello - having a tittie out is one of the seven forms of mercy.
Submitted by Anansie (user info) at 2007-01-25 11:13:46 EST (#)
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Some woman's always got a titty out in those things, doesn't she? Every. Fucking. Time.
Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2007-01-25 10:36:07 EST (#)
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Submitted by Anansie (user info) at 2007-01-25 10:24:41 (#)
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Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2007-01-22 17:55:13 (#)
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(I hate you for observing it without me. Or before me. Whatever. Was it nice? What's its natural size?)
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I remember it being huge. Har har. And of course, very nice. One of my favorites.
I am trying to get tickets to the Monet exhibit now, but I waited too long. Bastards.
http://www.ncartmuseum.org/collections/highlights/european/italian/1600-1815/gandolfibehead_lrg.shtml I've always liked this one, since I was a child.
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I'm sure it was too big for you to handle. Monstrous really. And firm.
I must credit you with making me look into this Gandolfi fellow. He's managed to escape me until now, it seems. Great painting. Nice gesture to the viewers, to hush them.
The motion in this one always gets me, and I don't know why:
http://www.wga.hu/art/c/caravagg/09/53mercy.jpg
Submitted by Anansie (user info) at 2007-01-25 10:24:41 EST (#)
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Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2007-01-22 17:55:13 (#)
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(I hate you for observing it without me. Or before me. Whatever. Was it nice? What's its natural size?)
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I remember it being huge. Har har. And of course, very nice. One of my favorites.
I am trying to get tickets to the Monet exhibit now, but I waited too long. Bastards.
http://www.ncartmuseum.org/collections/highlights/european/italian/1600-1815/gandolfibehead_lrg.shtml I've always liked this one, since I was a child.
Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2007-01-25 09:21:59 EST (#)
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Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2007-01-25 08:27:45 (#)
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"Prove to me that you're no fool, walk across my swimming pool."
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IF YOU DO IT FOR ME, THEN I'LL LET YOU GO FREE
Submitted by Maltese (user info) at 2007-01-25 08:31:17 EST (#)
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If it ain't awesome, it ain't O-tron.
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2007-01-25 08:29:54 EST (#)
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As Salami dances, bread is brought up from the town...
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2007-01-25 08:27:45 EST (#)
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"Prove to me that you're no fool, walk across my swimming pool."
Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2007-01-25 08:24:01 EST (#)
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Submitted by lungfish (user info) at 2007-01-25 00:50:17 (#)
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Fucking server's down again. +2 for everybody. FTW.
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We are living in the end times.
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2007-01-25 07:56:22 EST (#)
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I only had time to give this a quick read and I so wish I could read it again right now, but I'll rate instead.
This piece is just gorgeous- as is the painting. Your imagery is as seductive as the colors in the piece. LOVE this.
Submitted by ubetidid (user info) at 2007-01-25 07:03:15 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by lungfish (user info) at 2007-01-25 01:50:05 EST (#)
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Have a sincere +2. This was pleasant. I like the pic too.
Submitted by lungfish (user info) at 2007-01-25 00:50:17 EST (#)
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Didn't read it. Fucking server's down again. +2 for everybody. FTW.
Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2007-01-25 00:36:47 EST (#)
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Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2007-01-25 00:13:21 EST (#)
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Submitted by forthewin (user info) at 2007-01-25 00:04:15 (#)
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I love the way he dulled down every source of lighting so that when he used the most white on the figure, she would have a glowing look.
Artists used to be amazing with lighting. I don't know what happened.
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I had a difficult time picking one of Moreau's "Salome"s to use here.
I'll probably link the rest at some point. She's ice perpetual in all of them, though. Radiant and frozen.
I don't know what happened to artists either. Somewhere along the line they lost their way.
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2007-01-25 00:05:08 EST (#)
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Nortam Sagro.
Submitted by forthewin (user info) at 2007-01-25 00:04:15 EST (#)
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I love the way he dulled down every source of lighting so that when he used the most white on the figure, she would have a glowing look.
Artists used to be amazing with lighting. I don't know what happened.