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exhale
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since 2003-06-13
Posts 646
Alberta,Canada

0 posted 2011-05-16 01:29 AM


Asphalt asphyxiation
tell me
is it hard to breathe
with your head to the ground?

running hard
fast pulse

what hunts you?
what haunts you?
if you stop to breathe, what will collide?
what will implode.

what are you holding so tight?
red hands
blue veins
what are you keeping so tight
lock and key

you can keep running
but I don't see you going anywhere.

© Copyright 2011 Chelsea - All Rights Reserved
Margherita
Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236
Eternity
1 posted 2011-05-16 05:00 AM


Enjoyed your profound and poetic ponderings here, dear Chelsea! Very creative.

Love,
Margherita

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA
2 posted 2011-05-16 06:45 PM


Enjoyed...James
AlCowie
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since 2011-05-13
Posts 92
London, UK
3 posted 2011-05-17 09:42 AM


Enjoyed, where "less is more" for a view!
Brian James
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since 2005-06-26
Posts 147
Winnipeg
4 posted 2011-05-17 03:07 PM


I have no critiques to offer.

It's vague and quiet about itself, like a nightmare, and that's why it made me think of nightmares.  I like the "what are you?" style, it adds a lot to the mystery.  You're writing about something strange and foreign that is unknown to you but is at least worth your poetry.

Reminds me a lot of Stephen Crane's poetry, and even a little of that Tom Waits song "What's he building in there?"

Nicely written & looking forward to reading another one of yours.

"To me, the thing that art does for life is to clean it, to strip it to form."
~Robert Frost

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