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My Wife's Poem "Bipedal Fable"
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My Wife's Poem "Bipedal Fable" |
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Abdul Lateef New Member
since 1999-07-29
Posts 9Centrevill, Va. ,USA |
Bipedal Fable Seeing your motherly shadow in the night spilling your malleable words Like spun silver in the moonlight Explaining that it will be “alright we are alright” Running your fingers through our minds calming our sprits Like jewel crescent crowns Feeling the ants in my tummy turn to butterflies And my panic breath becomes an easy feeling Bunched up on dirty sheets unimaginable To taint a small sprit But in you is the comfort of an angel and all your gracefulness. I swear I felt feathers. Did you see that? I swear I heard a euphonic sound disguised in a whisper. Did you hear that? Over our cheeks brushing our lips Strands of dreams circle our foreheads Pointing out crystal sparkles. Every description taking us away to refuge In you we were uncontrolled In you we were children allowed to laugh out loud Talking us down from the piled dumpsters, Messy beds Dirty feet and golden treats, No reputation on cleaning, No double or crazy meanings, Just babies being babies. Ignoring the hate and desperation. The silence of your breathing resounded And blocked the echo of pounding And yelling at the faults that Remain infant’s perfection Is the infection that we refused to catch. We were the batch of burned cookies that no one wanted but We were content at the disposition And the idea of living together forever in the thought Of the story told to guide us to salvation In our selves. We were little and for that moment We stood as giants. |
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LngJhnAg Member Elite
since 1999-07-23
Posts 3508Boot+Kitty=Poetry in motion |
Abdul I almost always have a real hard time with free form poetry (or whatever its called). I like meter and rhyme a lot more. It provides me the structure my old distractable mind needs. However.... Your poem really hit some chords in me - I thought it was powerful, and hard. Like a diamond is hard. Tell your wife for me? I think she's great! |
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