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Open Poetry #34

please do not hunt in my hometown

inkedgoddess
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-11-19

Posts 7392
Ohio

0 posted 2004-12-14 05:09 PM

This one
didn't have
the luck of the irish,
nor that of the others
within the species
to which she were born,

this one
just lay tossed,
on a slab of dark granite
an unnoticed sideshow, as
the whirling of traffic
rushes across,

this one
like the others,
once stricken
by the humankind,
hers, along
a harried highway,
her sister's
on the receiving ride
of a bullets cost,

this one will wear
multi colored caskets,
atop her lithe figure,
from the leftover leaves
that remain dressed in scarlet,
to the musings of ivory
that soon sprinkle
with winter's frost,

this one will decay a while
until the calls of kindness
moves her skyward, as
hearts of the passerbys
take pause,

this one, like the others
never really had a chance,
as the eyes of the cowards
make her a carcass, to
inflate their own manhood,
soon as her first breaths
are drawn.

[This message has been edited by inkedgoddess (12-16-2004 07:57 AM).]

Dark Stranger
Member Patricius

since 2001-03-19

Posts 13631
West Coast

1 posted 2004-12-14 05:35 PM

my first pass on this was a cat
doing what I like them to do best

but then I read it deeper

kewl stuff ms inky

Susan
Member Ascendant

since 2004-03-27

Posts 5104
walking the surreal

2 posted 2004-12-15 09:13 PM

sad, this - you paint a poignant picture -

Susan

Happiness isn't something that happens to you, it's created from within you. Joy is a state of mind.

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

3 posted 2004-12-15 09:57 PM

oh wow

bklynboy
Senior Member

since 2002-12-15

Posts 660
florida

4 posted 2004-12-16 06:47 AM

Thoughtful.

LeeJ
Member Patricius

since 2003-06-19

Posts 13296

5 posted 2004-12-16 06:51 AM

yes, I've followed this story, and as the others say, not only thoughtful on your behalf, but a truth....thank you and oh by the way, love your photograph

Gentle Spirit
Member Patricius

since 2000-10-09

Posts 13989

6 posted 2004-12-16 07:48 AM

omg...this is your best ever....
so damn deep

It moved me.
Very well done Inky.

The greatest beauty on earth, is
found in the hearts of those
who love....

ctowen
Member Elite

since 2001-10-18

Posts 2286
Green Mountains of VT

7 posted 2004-12-16 02:13 PM

Waste not, want not ....

... even the most caring of souls have their darkness.

Only the shadows know.

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