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EmmaRose
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since 2011-03-02
Posts 1376
Midwest

0 posted 2014-11-02 10:59 AM



Yesterday's storm rings remorse
in its puddles, morning is echoed
in the biting reflection, with leaves
that play dead neath the feet
of the mother tree

but soon they take off
like an alley cat roaming
over oceans and mountain tops -
places were hearts of the desperate
hang to a flutter, when sparked by the piper
who offers an afterlife

yet when given 'that moment'
we thought of as golden, how fast you went rogue
like a sun pulling back at the point of conception
leaving the viewer
flipping on switches
that offer no sonnets, no rhymes nor a reason
to the who, what and why of you

O the heart dives so foolishly
plunging deep in the waters
towards one false with flowers, the one
that drew empty, save his blue eyed deception

so she watches the loose leaves
renegard warriors, for some semblance
of meaning and a colorful antidote
for the sting of her 'magic man'

[This message has been edited by EmmaRose (11-02-2014 12:52 PM).]

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JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975
South Louisiana
1 posted 2014-11-02 01:16 PM


Ahhh . . . "the sting of her magic man." Yeah, magic like a magician weaving a spell which was false from beginning to end.

If they give you ruled paper write sideways.

Lori Grosser Rhoden
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since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere
2 posted 2014-11-02 03:51 PM


That was delicious!  I savored every word!

Lori

secondhanddreampoet
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since 2006-11-07
Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !
3 posted 2014-11-02 10:02 PM


fine writing indeed !
OwlSA
Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa
4 posted 2014-11-06 07:05 AM


EmmaRose, you have swirled the colours of your pain, anguish and two-way anger into a wide-sky word-painting that compels readers to immerse themselves in it.

You deserve the best.  I wish that for you.

Owl

EmmaRose
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since 2011-03-02
Posts 1376
Midwest
5 posted 2014-11-06 08:30 PM


thank you so much for stopping by and reading

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