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JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06
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South Louisiana

0 posted 2014-05-23 03:58 PM



the sunset red like a bloody fighter
the nudity of words in a love letter
I think of sun-kissed lips in the shadows
and raindrops jealous of the umbrella
I hear gleeful laughter of my troubled youth
David Allen Coe pushing dirt around
words like, you can’t shake hands with a fist
before she spread her cultured legs
she opened doors I could not
found out they were only open for the day
it wasn’t enough

©April 18, 2014 / Jerry Pat Bolton

~*~ The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead. ~*~

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Lori Grosser Rhoden
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since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere
1 posted 2014-05-23 04:08 PM


This is a fresh twist on your usual style. Kinda nice to mix things up every once in a while, huh?! I enjoyed this.

Lori

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975
South Louisiana
2 posted 2014-05-23 04:12 PM


Thanks, Lori. Yep, even I was getting bored with my white bread approach in my poetry. This isn't such a jump away from it, but it's a start.

~*~ The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead. ~*~

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