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VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

0 posted 2001-02-13 08:02 PM

Help!
Virginia Salter

Help
I need a new tape
this one’s hurting me again
when it starts
it rips my heart
much as a band-aid
tears apart
the skin, the hairs
the once repairs

this tape inside my head
its melancholy dread
over and over
echoing
the words of doubt
the words that sting
why can’t there be some sort of change
why can’t my thoughts be rearranged
if only feedback would fin’ly come
erase the pain
of feeling dumb

I’m up
I’m down
I’m just a clown
wearing Kelly’s face
whenever things turn out awry
of what I’d put in my mind’s eye
to expect
to really get
in the way of no regret

my idle days
in which could praise
great opportunity
find a way
to weigh on me
and mess around my sanity

I need a notching place to chip
whenever something makes me flip
with glee, with joy,
with sweet employ
that I may look and recollect
a way my thoughts to redirect

© February 12, 2001

Lone Wolf
Member Ascendant

since 2000-03-16

Posts 5842
Lansing, MI USA

1 posted 2001-02-13 08:31 PM

Very interesting writing. I love the emotions in turmoil feeling. May you get it all straightened out soon. Good luck.

LW

Poetry should surprise by fine excess...it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts and appear almost a remembrance. -J.Keats

Elizabeth

Moderator

Member Ascendant

since 1999-06-07

Posts 6871
Minnesota

2 posted 2001-02-13 08:50 PM

Virginia, hope that things settle down soon. Good writing.

Marge Tindal

Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

3 posted 2001-02-13 10:15 PM

VAS~

'I’m up
I’m down
I’m just a clown
wearing Kelly’s face'

Nostalgic imagery here !
Stirred a memory pot !

~*Marge*~

~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
noles1@totcon.com

Mark Bohannan
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-06-21

Posts 7269
In the winds of Cherokee song

4 posted 2001-02-14 03:55 PM

Such urgency and desperation in this truely unique piece. I really enjoyed the read but I don't have a way to erase the tape or I would use it myself. Wonderful work in this one for sure.

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