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Open Poetry #42

Deception!

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2008-03-14 12:51 PM

So walks a woman like a snail
slowly, slowly, to the grave
while shifts the sand beneath her feet
until there on the underside
of what appears to be
the bugs and mites, deception,
appear like models on a ramp.

Amazed she shakes her head,
what effrontery, my friend,
to dress up the unspeakable
in the drapes of normality
and use me as a shield
against ridicule.

But bugs are sneaky things
and come and go like insights
thought one minute certain
and the next like a fantasy.

So rolls a woman then upright
better able then to be
the stronger and the taller
should bugs come to the fore!

Helen / 14 March 2008

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

1 posted 2008-03-14 12:54 PM

"So walks a woman like a snail
slowly, slowly to the grave...."
Very thought provoking write, Helen.
Ida

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

2 posted 2008-03-14 01:01 PM

Thanks, Ida. I appreciate your "visit".

nakdthoughts
Member Laureate

since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

3 posted 2008-03-14 05:12 PM

Amazed she shakes her head,
what effrontery, my friend,
to dress up the unspeakable
in the drapes of normality
and use me as a shield
against ridicule.

says it all, Helen...

LindsayP
Member Elite

since 2007-07-28

Posts 3410
Australia, Victoria

4 posted 2008-03-14 11:10 PM

Nice write Helen, enjoyed.

Lindsay

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