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Quinky Dinker - The Long Bridge
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Quinky Dinker - The Long Bridge |
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Earl Brinkman Senior Member
since 2010-03-03
Posts 1183Osaka, Japan |
Quinky Dinker - The Long Bridge Dry skies shrivel up a citric sun Underneath a limping shadow stag- gers, trips, falls, picks itself up. Cruel un- alleviated pain taunts it, nag- ging, ever nagging. Unbridled re- sentment rages and riots unceas- ingly as it walks the long bridge slowly How many steps to the end of the bridge? How many steps? Too many For it. Square habitual melancholy Contorts his beautiful round face A face of remembered misery Behind the face,beyond the slow pace Men on the bridge, yardsticks of hours Loiter, smoke, don`t notice him at all He`s crumbled like a bed of crushed flowers How many steps to the end of the bridge? How many steps? Does it matter? To him now? |
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Earl Brinkman Senior Member
since 2010-03-03
Posts 1183Osaka, Japan |
Edvard Munch, the painter of `The Scream` inspired me to write this poem. I tried to capture the artist`s tormented psyche on paper. This is the second in the series. |
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s1nfully_1nn0c3nt Senior Member
since 2003-10-26
Posts 1105Watertown, NY |
"The Scream" is indeed an intriguing painting, and so is this.  Enjoyed.-Trina. |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
Had trouble at first with the hyphenated words, I'd never seen that in poetry before. But I pressed on, knowing what a good poet you were, and I am better for reading this interesting post. I may not have attributed it to the painting "Scream," but I would have understood a man's lonely, last walk. Profound poetry. . . . and the Raven said, %!~#&(&#!$! |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
I agree with Jerry. I like where you went with this. Lori |
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Prasad Nataraj Senior Member
since 2008-05-29
Posts 1149Bangalore,India |
Sorrow stricken man on the stranger bridge, stream below and above. That’s an intruding painting, you speak about. Fine writing, Earl. "Hardwork pays in the long run" |
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Yuka Member
since 2010-08-19
Posts 71china |
hello Earl, please check your email |
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since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
You put a lo of raw emotion into this one, Earl...pain, suffering, despair, hopelessness, frustration. Excellent work  |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
Dear Earl, you rendered extreme abyssal despair very powerfully. Your poem imprints itself in the reader's mind, just what happens when seeing Munch's work. You can't forget it. A scream is what we repress more often than not, whenever we find ourselves at the edge of a frightening abyss. We stop and breathe and go on just like your shadow ... Excellent work. Love, Margherita ps had to do some research for "Quinky dinker" ... a coincidence ... not represented in the official dictionary, but I found it in the Urban dict. |
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