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Kethry
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-07-29

Posts 9082
Victoria Australia

0 posted 2001-04-04 09:07 AM

Wynter Challenge completed in free verse. Oh my aching metrenome

There's no joy in Mudville
sorrow rains
cascading down
creating small
islands of misery
where people huddle together
sharing solace
while the sky as
muddy eyed as the
town
watches
fretfully.

There's no joy in Mudville
guilt drizzles
knowingly on
subduing all color
and making all
bleak
brown and bleak
as it listens
woefully
to pathos
unrestrained

There's no joy in Mudville
pain is the norm
pulsating to the wind
a heartbeat of
agony
growing ever
stronger in voice
as the world falls down
around its ears
to become the plaintive
cry of
mourning

There's no joy in Mudville
justice in travesty
is not poetic
and the smell of
desolation
Incarcerates the spirit
look
see the scars
there's no joy in Mudville
and Mudville
is me.

Those of us who refuse to risk and grow get swallowed up by life. Patty Hansen.

SEA

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Member Seraphic

since 2000-01-18

Posts 22676
with you

1 posted 2001-04-04 09:12 AM

Kethry~ this is so sad.....I like free verse....

SEA

Kethry
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-07-29

Posts 9082
Victoria Australia

2 posted 2001-04-04 09:20 AM

SEA, welcome back. It is so sad that you like free verse and got this.

Kethry

Those of us who refuse to risk and grow get swallowed up by life. Patty Hansen.

nakdthoughts
Member Laureate

since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

3 posted 2001-04-04 09:23 AM

well, Kethry, this was truly how I felt..but the longer I went and after talking to you I released some of the hurt and sadness in a trade for some nighttime dreams...what can I say...*s thanks for the challenge poem ...huggzz

~Wynter

"The worst prison would be a closed heart".
...Pope John Paul II

Sudhir Iyer
Member Ascendant

since 2000-04-26

Posts 6943
Mumbai, India : now in Belgium

4 posted 2001-04-04 09:28 AM

Oh Kethry,

This is exquisite writing...

Regards,
Sudhir

Kethry
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-07-29

Posts 9082
Victoria Australia

5 posted 2001-04-04 10:34 AM

Wynter, Thanks, glad the challenge helped.

Sudhir, beloved one. Oh how I have missed your presence and you so positive comments.

Be well and tell
Kethry

Those of us who refuse to risk and grow get swallowed up by life. Patty Hansen.

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