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Open Poetry #12

blind fault thrust

bsquirrel

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

0 posted 2001-01-22 01:01 AM

I sized you up and seized up.
You always warned me
you were capable of great destruction.
But I was built in 1976
to post-irony and –cynicism codes.
Retrofitted in 1999
after all my windows were broken.
Sure, you could shake me,
but I wouldn’t let you displace me.

The horizontal motions were fine;
really we were only dragging over the same places,
only a little more wear to show.
But you kept reaching beyond your limit;
pushed too hard, as if you could create a mountain
out of will alone.

The supports buckled --
the soft bottom floor was crushed,
not that my confidence really mattered.

It was as you’d promised:
you made a lot of noise
and wrecked my stuff.
But, even as you shook me again,
the sunset was a saving borealis
from all the unsettled dust.

And sometimes, when I’m feeling
particularly insane and red-tagged,
I decide I miss my blind fault thrust.

The poor death of routine
as I search for my shoes and a flashlight.

Mr.Magoo
Member

since 2001-01-20

Posts 104

1 posted 2001-01-22 01:18 AM

Im kinda lost here....Are you talking about a car or a period of your life?
Either way I enjoyed reading this.
Nicely Done.
Mr.Magoo

bsquirrel

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

2 posted 2001-01-27 07:15 PM

Mr. Magoo,
Um, actually it's comparing a bad relationship to an earthquake, but thanks for playing!

Mike

Irish Rose
Member Patricius

since 2000-04-06

Posts 10263

3 posted 2001-01-27 07:17 PM

I was built in 1950 and I survived all the gas prices since!

Kathleen

serenity blaze
Member Empyrean

since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

4 posted 2001-01-28 11:22 PM

hey you...

"But you kept reaching beyond your limit;
pushed too hard, as if you could create a mountain
out of will alone."

Nothing left to do but try....yanno? I think yanno.

miss you...sorry so remiss...but I guess you know by now my life is crazy...e ya later...tell me all about the poetry reading? (I did not forget, luvie...)

HUGS.

SEA

Moderator

Member Seraphic

since 2000-01-18

Posts 22676
with you

5 posted 2001-01-28 11:58 PM

Mike~

I got this one!

lol Truly a great read

-SEA

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