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serenity blaze
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0 posted 2006-04-08 03:45 AM


I didn't talk at all, in fact
I went there so I wouldn't "should"
I nodded socially so that
I would not be called and would
had that worked for me at all
I could have, would have--
grown real tall
instead of all this hobbit bliss
hair upon my toes and this
just cain't be what's happenin'--
and all of this
is what it is--
a tale in tell all wrong.

I walked up the center aisle
knowng that my dress was cracked
right there in the centering
and wondering if I was lacked
in things that made
the red birds sing...

and dammit, I was fat.

All the girls were giggling
I was burning in the hiss
of kittens playfully in purr
as I pulled my dress from it--
laughter and the green blackboard
I focused as I walked the floor
of tiles in dot of marbling
and dust and I thought everything

about me was all wrong.

The things that made the red birds sing
were calling from the empty swings
and monkey bars
were glistening
blue and steel and missing me

and all those blistering white dots...

I took the chalk
I added wrong

knowing all along   it was
the way    back to my seat.

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iliana
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1 posted 2006-04-08 05:11 AM


I think you know the way back to your seat alright!  But it must have been hard then.  *hugs*.....jojo  
nakdthoughts
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2 posted 2006-04-08 09:18 AM


I could picture this...

and the funny (not really) thing is  kids are soooo hard on each other...even their own friends

(of course I could be misinterpreting this)


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Seymour Tabin
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3 posted 2006-04-08 09:59 AM


serenity,
We all go through similar things but all react differently.

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4 posted 2006-04-08 10:19 AM





"Does this poem make me look fat?"


No.


It doesn't help this memory, but fat and slim are entirely in the mind....and after all, isn't a woman supposed to be soft-all-over?

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nakdthoughts
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5 posted 2006-04-08 12:10 PM


and after all, isn't a woman supposed to be soft-all-over?


love Ed's response  

Martie
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6 posted 2006-04-08 01:51 PM


Karen...I remember in first grade standing at the chalk board trying to do some sort of math, and everyone, even the teacher, (especially the teacher!) made fun of me and laughed.  I, of course, cried!  Her name was Mrs. Rule...go figure!!  Funny how one remembers those details that should be fogotten.     And Karen...you are the redbird!!!
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7 posted 2006-04-08 06:24 PM


hugs
what a write
and I know why the redbird...
and also know why she does not

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8 posted 2006-04-08 09:29 PM



STAND and REMEMBER
the words were strong
recitation of last night's learning
stirred into this body long

but the wrongly stutter,
and the shy of stammer
hit my cheeks
with a bloody hammer

and then the most learned
of the class then swore and said,
"sit down, girl, you're a disgrace!"
Blood was swift to this young head.

I never chuckled, nor gained a glee
when others had some problem failed
but flickering of laughter free
followed me decades, impaled.

~*~

I wouldn't know if others ever had
the trying times such as yours, except...
that yours sometimes outweigh mine.

No wonder I think as I do...
of the spirit
of you.




serenity blaze
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9 posted 2006-04-09 05:10 PM


thanks and Kari? sheesh

unfortunately these days I am remembering better than I am writing, but I should have offered, at least, the definition of

"redbird"

A redbird, when I was a kid, was the marks of hands on someone's body, usually the stomach (a "redbelly") but it was called that because the goal of such hazing (besides humiliation) was to produce the image of a bird--two hands, fingers splayed, is a "redbird"

thanks all again

my writing is crap these days, so my apologies

The Lady
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10 posted 2006-04-09 10:57 PM




and after all, isn't a woman supposed to be soft-all-over?

I love Ed's response too. From my side of the fence the word is zaftig.

serenity, if this is crap, bring it on! I love it.


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