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Member		Großartig! badham, on July 20, 2010 [report post] [quote] [reply]

Guest		BenHeine wrote: thx again, Peter, I just posted several of your poems on my blog Thanks so much Ben. Perhaps you could also 'connect' some of my other poems at Poemhunter, etc., to some of your other illustrations? Doesn't need to be an exact connection … ;-) Peter S Quinn (85.197.227.36), on November 24, 2008 [report post] [quote] [reply]

Executive		thx again, Peter, I just posted several of your poems on my blog BenHeine, on November 24, 2008 [report post] [quote] [reply]

Guest		Changing Masks Changing masks of myriad subtleties today In the colorful worlds we all live in Spiral bounds to its many turning way Head to head in tomorrow's coming spin Waves from the sky through emotions of song To follow your spirits from cloud to cloud Dreams of your golden thrust spinning headlong From concrete forests and to the street crowd Opportunities of living color turn Jesters of every man's inside juggling Desiring shades that come to mind and burn From their work about distances and struggling Masks like transparent ornamentation Theater of smiles and sadness sensation Peter S Quinn (85.197.227.36), on November 24, 2008 [report post] [quote] [reply]

Member		this is what happens to me every day!!! :) Deleted Person, on April 27, 2008 [report post] [quote] [reply]

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We Wear The Mask

By Paul Lawrence Dunbar

We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,--
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.

Why should the world be overwise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.

We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!

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--> The poem appeared on http://www.dunbarsite.org/