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icebox
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since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

0 posted 2008-10-08 04:38 PM

I learned to cook without a recipe,
to get by with what life offered me,
to skip a line
when some ingredient was just a wistful fantasy,
it was that or starve
you see I was on my own when I was nine.

Last time I bought a woman
I thought she was for free;
irony,
like paradox,
is an herb without mercy,
ideas
of what should become of me
never cross my mind;
a broken package
when I found her
I bound her wounds
with heartstrings,
fragile things,
gossamer threads of angels' wings
unraveled;
why
caged birds sing still baffles me,
I guess I lack some ethnic gene
that could complete me,
that would treat me,
that could help me
understand
why my eyes in blindness
see forever.

©2008 by icebox

1slick_lady
Member Ascendant

since 2000-12-22

Posts 6088
standing on a shadow's lace

1 posted 2008-10-08 05:48 PM

"ideas
of what should become of me
never cross my mind;
a broken package
when I found her
I bound her wounds
with heartstrings,
fragile things,
gossamer threads of angels' wings
unraveled;
why
caged birds sing still baffles me,
I guess I lack some ethnic gene
that could complete me,
that would treat me,
that could help me
understand
why my eyes in blindness
see forever."

loved it all but this part best
i do so wonder

are you writing of me?
she turns and looks as she walks away

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

2 posted 2008-10-08 05:48 PM

v. interesting 'write'!

"irony,
like paradox,
is an herb without mercy..."

now THAT is an especially grand-fine line!

serious applause for this 'penning'!

Oklahoma Rose
Senior Member

since 2008-02-28

Posts 1586
Oklahoma USA

3 posted 2008-10-08 06:54 PM

Sounds a little sad to me, Icebox. I hope things get better.

serenity blaze
Member Empyrean

since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

4 posted 2008-10-08 11:45 PM

caged birds sing
not in spite of bars
but because of them

hitting that note

the high one

with vibrato

oh there's nothing else quite like that...

well.

*ahem*

That's close.

But no cigar.

c'mere you

Bill Charles
Member Patricius

since 2000-07-11

Posts 10619
highways, & byways, for now

5 posted 2008-10-08 11:48 PM

icebox,

Wow, this is a very powerful write. I enjoyed it muchly...

BC

TinaTrivett
Senior Member

since 2006-07-15

Posts 569

6 posted 2008-10-09 02:02 PM

I just love your every poem.

inkedgoddess
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-11-19

Posts 7392
Ohio

7 posted 2008-10-10 10:38 PM

very potent observation of such topic

Martie

Moderator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

8 posted 2008-10-10 10:45 PM

Icebox...from what I know, you cook well, as for the rest of whatever, I think you're swell.

vandana

Member Patricius

since 1999-10-22

Posts 10463
USA

9 posted 2008-10-11 10:48 AM

enjoyed

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

10 posted 2008-10-11 01:25 PM

quote:
a broken package
when I found her
I bound her wounds
with heartstrings,
fragile things,
gossamer threads of angels' wings
unraveled;

Charly, you are a wonderful poetic voice and you SEE and make us SEE the touching nuances of life.

Love,
Margherita

"Love is the One who masters all things;
I am mastered totally by Love."
(Rumi)

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