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Open Poetry #43

Strength and Weakness

ThisDiamond
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-02-22

Posts 9353
Michigan, USA

0 posted 2008-08-25 07:39 PM

Strength and Weakness

Fortitude and complex emotions filtered through daylight
Has left me welcoming solitude
In its baroque schisms and echoed schemes tonight
Too many round holes to fit tightly my crustacean nature

Sailing forth on a glass top sea so suddenly
Swept up in the waves and sunk
Any navigator will say
The only true tide is that governed by the moon
If truth is my garment, then it is not my heart on my sleeve

So my mind is a sail, but only soul motors the boat
Unduly molted, just a husk left to denote
Much as any shellfish cast into the boiling pot
The color red fills my head made harder every knock

And so I see, the pressure is on me
To change
But just as readily, replenished more I see
Estrangement is a self made sigh
Better to shuck a crab than become one

Copyright Kkh 8/25/08

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

1 posted 2008-08-25 08:51 PM

Very well done, Kathleen. Where you born under the sign of Cancer or am I just reading more into this?
Ida

Mark Bohannan
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-06-21

Posts 7269
In the winds of Cherokee song

2 posted 2008-08-26 12:11 PM

You once told me you see things in "Cancerian" tones and being a part of you, those tones don't need changing, but we all have a duty to ourselves to fine tune the inner part of ourselves. Enjoyed the read and the look inside yourself. Being Irish myself I know how hard it is to be honest openly about oneself when honesty on other levels seems so natural.

BluesSerenade
Member Patricius

since 2001-10-23

Posts 10549
By the Seaside

3 posted 2008-10-19 05:32 PM

You are such a gifted poetess, with an abundance of wit and wisdom to top it off!!

Nice write, TD~

Magnus

Member Laureate

since 2001-10-10

Posts 14135
South Carolina, USA

4 posted 2008-10-19 06:07 PM

Better to shuck a crab than become one

Now, that is vintage TD....no bout a doubt
it! Well done dear friend, well done.

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