Must I SCREAM for attention...(repost sort of)

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inkedgoddess
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-11-19

Posts 7392
Ohio

0 posted 2004-02-06 09:26 AM

Speak to me
tell me i'm not crazy
perhaps just a deviation of a theme

tell me its okay
to teeter on the madness tightrope
one toe tapping freedom
the other settling on complacency and the norm

i'm a hybrid in the flower kingdom
witout a name, i walk uncluttered
a hue not found on the breaking sunset
just an adaption to the role i've been roped onto

maybe i really am alien afterall
the familiar is strange
and the absurd
is worn like a right of passage now

i can come and go with the waterfalls
i channnel between them
what powers i've accrued with age
is this only the beginning?

and they don't even know that i'm pathless,
i touch down less and less these days
perhaps to sew seems along a butterfly
or to grow vicariously with the greenery

let me walk a freeman in the applefields
its harvest time and i'm all ripe again with desire

I have no one to impress there
no one will undermine or undress me
prefix or suffix me
with misunderstanding of my rhyme
when a girl like me is so sublime, afterall,

i can slip off between the leaf spots
there just my word will be good enough
i'm the artist painting among them
my adhesions to this life here are dissolving now
does anyone truely know me?

must i constantly SCREAM for attention

an aging, raging, goddess

i am wounded, but i love so these badges
lately though ,even i don't know
if exaggeration seizes this damn poetry
or I just wear self isolation so well

Enchantress
Member Empyrean

since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

1 posted 2004-02-06 11:18 AM

Michele..just seeing your name on a post screams for me to read you.
This one in particular had too many excellent lines..
for me to choose just a few would have been sinful.
I enjoy your writings...especially this one...it touched me someplace deep.
Heart Hugs~

~ I like not only to be loved,
   but to be told I am loved ~

nakdthoughts
Member Laureate

since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

2 posted 2004-02-06 11:21 AM

"maybe i really am alien afterall"

I think this about myself every day
*s
hugs
M

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

3 posted 2004-02-06 01:56 PM

you and me both

you just don't know how close this hit for me

1slick_lady
Member Ascendant

since 2000-12-22

Posts 6088
standing on a shadow's lace

4 posted 2004-02-06 02:31 PM

"i can slip off between the leaf spots
there just my word will be good enough
i'm the artist painting among them
my adhesions to this life here are dissolving now
does anyone truely know me?"

and

"or I just wear self isolation so well"

you write so frankly and fluidly about not just yourself but of so many of us here...i know for me when i read this i KNEW it was about me...h

iliana
Member Patricius

since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

5 posted 2004-02-06 02:38 PM

I often wonder if most of us don't feel this very same way. This was a wonderful, self-portrait.

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

6 posted 2004-02-06 06:31 PM

Dear Michelle, this is so powerful AND touching.
Goddesses are ageless and they are one with the Source, even though at times they live in worlds of their own.
Love, Margherita

Bill Charles
Member Patricius

since 2000-07-11

Posts 10619
highways, & byways, for now

7 posted 2004-02-06 08:23 PM

Michele - you do not have to scream for attention, your writings bring it forth to you...

BC

BluesSerenade
Member Patricius

since 2001-10-23

Posts 10549
By the Seaside

8 posted 2004-02-06 09:01 PM

I can't tell what you revised,
but I remember the message well.

Wonderful girlie, you~

inkedgoddess
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-11-19

Posts 7392
Ohio

9 posted 2004-02-06 09:33 PM

thanks guys and gals

Sadelite
Member Elite

since 2003-10-11

Posts 2519

10 posted 2004-02-06 09:56 PM

inkedgoddess,
No, you don't need to scream. I like your poetry, always have-I just run out of post time because I'm trying to meet my own goals. The poetry I've read of yours usually slides out with a gentle feel to it-wish mine would! Your title is great, too!

Richy
Member Elite

since 2003-05-03

Posts 3050

11 posted 2004-02-07 05:19 AM

“Speak to me
tell me i'm not crazy
perhaps just a deviation of a theme

tell me its okay
to teeter on the madness tightrope
one toe tapping freedom
the other settling on complacency and the norm”

Crazy? Hardly...

What’s wrong with tightrope walking?
It’s been working for me, forever...

“i'm a hybrid in the flower kingdom
witout a name”

The best ones, by far...

“and they don't even know that i'm pathless,
i touch down less and less these days
perhaps to sew seems along a butterfly
or to grow vicariously with the greenery

let me walk a freeman in the applefields
its harvest time and i'm all ripe again with desire

I have no one to impress there
no one will undermine or undress me
prefix or suffix me
with misunderstanding of my rhyme”

It’s hard to find honesty, such as this...

“i am wounded, but i love so these badges
lately though ,even i don't know
if exaggeration seizes this damn poetry
or I just wear self isolation so well”

The words of a true survivor,
with a strong, but delicate heart...

Amazing write Inkedgoddess

My favorite of yours

Thanks!

ice
Member Elite

since 2003-05-17

Posts 3404
Pennsylvania

12 posted 2004-02-07 07:05 AM

Excellent poetry....

You got my attention without screaming..
I (quietly) enjoyed every line.....

________ice
><>

KristieSue

Senior Member

since 2003-01-31

Posts 1460
PA, US

13 posted 2004-02-07 07:53 AM

Michelle~I think we ALL doubt and feel like a little like nothing at times. We all feel like we need to scream...or at least do something 'out of the ordinary' to not be lost in the crowd.

you are certainly one of those people I thought I'd be screaming TO, not with.... i love to see your name and read your thoughts and such.

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

14 posted 2004-02-07 11:22 AM

You always get my attention, Mish, and I hear your scream loud and clear.
Wishing for you a new yoga position and an herbal cup of tea.
Take care, dear friend.

garysgirl

Member Laureate

since 2002-09-29

Posts 19237
Florida, USA

15 posted 2004-02-07 11:55 AM

Speak to me
tell me i'm not crazy
perhaps just a deviation of a theme

tell me its okay
to teeter on the madness tightrope
one toe tapping freedom
the other settling on complacency and the norm

Michele, I feel this more now than I did the first time......
especially this part above.... it feels good to not
be the "norm" sometimes, doesn't it? Just being
ourselves is all that matters!!

Hugs and love, sweet lady,

Ethel

Mistletoe Angel

Member Empyrean

since 2000-12-17

Posts 32816
Portland, Oregon

16 posted 2004-02-07 01:04 PM

(big angel hugs) You have all our uninvited attention, sweet friend, yay, God Bless You, no need to scream, we're all down and front and here for you, yay, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Michele, thank you for sharing!

May love and light always shine upon you!

Love,
Noah Eaton

"You'll find something that's enough to keep you
But if the bright lights don't receive you
You should turn yourself around and come back home" MB20

Ringo

Member Elite

since 2003-02-20

Posts 3684
Saluting with misty eyes

17 posted 2004-02-07 02:00 PM

Michele- you keep screaming like this and we'll always pay attentioon... definately one of your best.

But now the animal is in pain...
And now it's starting to rain...
But I'm still the same.

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