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Honeybee
Member Ascendant

since 1999-12-26

Posts 5372
Ontario, CANADA

0 posted 2006-05-23 09:09 PM

I Never Knew

I didn't know
that the inevitable
would hurt so much.

I've been preparing for years
but you're never really prepared.

I never knew that the truth
would burn so bad
would be so devastating and so final.

I never knew I would want so much
ache so much
and wait for so long
for something
I can never have.

No one ever told me
that I would pay the cost
for daring to pick up a paintbrush
instead of the chains
daring to birth new being
in canvas and oil
spreading myself thin
though lush full
with faith and hope;
Only later to drip the lies
on white turned gray.

I cry broken tears
in a field of broken dreams,
this heart is paper, leprosy torn
and without the wind, it cannot fly.

I never knew I would
lose so much
for something
I can never have.

Love.

Melissa Long-Monette

Intellectually I know that Canada is no better than any other country. Emotionally I KNOW that Canada is the best country in the world!

shirtless
Member

since 2006-04-29

Posts 359

1 posted 2006-05-23 09:20 PM

daring to birth new being
in canvas and oil
spreading myself thin
though lush full
with faith and hope;
Only later to drip the lies
on white turned gray.

In the above, I am fascinated by the sustained metaphor in which the self is the paint and the paint is the self.

http://anthonyarmstrong.zoomshare.com

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

2 posted 2006-05-23 09:20 PM

ouch...this one hurts

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

3 posted 2006-05-26 08:00 AM

No one ever told me
that I would pay the cost
for daring to pick up a paintbrush
instead of the chains
daring to birth new being
in canvas and oil
spreading myself thin
though lush full
with faith and hope;
Only later to drip the lies
on white turned gray.

~*~

We never know
until we dare...

You keep doing
what you do...

after all, it's
your heart
and your soul
you're caring for.

Martie

Moderator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

4 posted 2006-05-26 12:39 PM

Malissa

"I never knew I would
lose so much
for something
I can never have."

Don't give up...the future is a new canvas.

poettothecars
Senior Member

since 2006-02-10

Posts 1093
New Zealand

5 posted 2006-05-27 01:53 AM

a good expression, moving flow

a poet who cares

Will Rhyme
Member

since 2006-05-22

Posts 149

6 posted 2006-05-27 01:58 AM

Your poem touches me dear Lady:

"I never knew I would
lose so much
for something
I can never have."

BELIEVE:

You never will lose anything for something you can't have, only for something you never tried.

don't ask me how I know, but,

my words are true and I haven't told you a thing that your soul already knows!
Will

nakdthoughts
Member Laureate

since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

7 posted 2006-05-27 06:29 AM

Only later to drip the lies
on white turned gray.

great lines... nice to read you again...

M

ThisDiamond
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-02-22

Posts 9353
Michigan, USA

8 posted 2006-05-27 10:55 PM

Stunning clarity Mel.
Well done.
TD

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