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Open Poetry #45

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1slick_lady
Member Ascendant

since 2000-12-22

Posts 6088
standing on a shadow's lace

0 posted 2009-09-26 11:07 AM

Laminate

today as you dress
you live by some code
referred to on a regular basis
that alters as you go along
it is not that you are a liar
just challenged by the truth
so I lick the tip of my finger
in risk, extending it to the air
questioning by which direction
wind will be this moment’s blow
and words will be so different
by the very shape of your mouth
as you stand in front of the wooden closet
that casual quick change costumes hang in
mirrored outside faced to fine oiled oak
where doors open to sawdust and glue

and today
out in that forest
a tree
will come crashing down
but it falls
on deaf ears

"I'm so hard to handle
I'm selfish and I'm sad."
— Joni Mitchell

inkedgoddess
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-11-19

Posts 7392
Ohio

1 posted 2009-09-26 01:34 PM

from the treetop
this tumbled town
in the crescendo
in its emphatic thud
at the end
very poignant

GBride
Senior Member

since 2009-07-02

Posts 538

2 posted 2009-09-29 10:31 PM

okay
It's not that I am a liar
but that I am challenged by the truth.
okay
I always wet my finger to test the
direction of the wind.
okay
so the words come out of my mouth in different directions depending on that wind direction.
But, hey look, I still have a job.
Great Poem! But, of course, I'm not really to be trusted!

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

3 posted 2009-09-29 10:56 PM

"it is not that you are a liar
just challenged by the truth"

yeah, that's cool

Loved the ending!

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