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Open Poetry #47

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kindredspirit
Member

since 2009-05-19

Posts 156

0 posted 2011-04-06 10:32 AM

I am a smoldering contradiction
viciously fastened in the flesh side

spirit sagging within the pinch and burn of nerves
they say

it’s just a breaking down of understanding
my body

thinks, gnaws, and feels
the ragged wrongness of mortality

circling into aching taut
knowing

my body is wrong
and I

I simmer under frail sinew.

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

1 posted 2011-04-06 10:46 AM

What a revoltin' way to be, kindredspirit, may you eventually work it out. Love your description of your "ailments."

~ If you don't want gays in the military, make the uniforms ugly. ~

kindredspirit
Member

since 2009-05-19

Posts 156

2 posted 2011-04-06 11:28 AM

Thanks Jerry

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

3 posted 2011-04-06 12:17 PM

Impressive use of words.

Very well done.

Love,
Margherita

BluesSerenade
Member Patricius

since 2001-10-23

Posts 10549
By the Seaside

4 posted 2011-04-06 07:16 PM

I think we all have done that slow simmer and perhaps even got to the boiling point a time or two.

What a fascinating poem, very much enjoyed.

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