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Open Poetry #4

the storm

mirjam
Member

since 1999-11-24

Posts 246
Auckland, New Zealand

0 posted 1999-11-27 08:04 PM

this is a poem i wrote about the death of my
next door neighbour from cancer.

I see you perched there,
watching the clouds roll in,
dark; looming. Ate up the sun.
I see you silently watch them
ripen to indigo - the inside of a bruise.
Within this
so full of you
atmosphere wheels, circles the
tumbling sky.

And i know i know you can get to
feeling everywhere and nowhere
at one - all alone but crowded in,
spilling rolling holding on.
Hungry to exist.

So by the time all the Ophelias
Cordelias and Desdemona's had
spiralled to their end
and we had run out of time,
life exhausted
weakened beaten eaten
the storm had already clawed you
into itself and it was black.

Severn
Member Rara Avis

since 1999-07-17

Posts 7704

1 posted 1999-11-28 05:16 AM

But Shakespeare never dies and neither does the memory of close friends - you have honoured your next door neighbour hon.

Severn
Member Rara Avis

since 1999-07-17

Posts 7704

2 posted 1999-12-02 07:27 AM

Sorry, this can't go yet.

Dark Angel
Member Patricius

since 1999-08-04

Posts 10095

3 posted 1999-12-02 08:00 AM

Miriam, This is wonderful and I agree with Severn, you have honoured your next door neighbour.

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What comes from the heart goes to the heart.
Samuel Coleridge

Denise

Moderator

Member Seraphic

since 1999-08-22

Posts 22648

4 posted 1999-12-02 07:42 PM

Yes, Mirjam, this is very well done.

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Denise

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