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Open Poetry #46

letter burning

unboundpoetess
Member

since 2008-05-24

Posts 477

0 posted 2010-03-04 06:46 PM

the door pulls shut and I am sealed
left to the vacuum of my dreams
no pillow for suffocating echoes
their ghosts rattle poison through the seams

would have been could have been should have been

where the glass lay shattered slowly bleeding
reels looped in cruel teeth gnashing nip my heels

"baby" it said
"when we make love" it said

violates my flesh and I am still...

I have singed it all a thousand times while sleeping
and stitched together ashes in my sin
to have the flames for pleasure licking hatred
just to feel and scorch it all again

you are smoke

green skies streaming smear the cinders
leak their rivers screaming as I curl
into paper only paper it's just paper
and you can't smell the charring as I burn

I am smoke

for all the blackness of my fingers
that only years long scars aren't blind to see
I sketch you whole again in charcoal poems
on the floating fragments left of me

and we are smoke only smoke how I love you through the smoke
H

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

1 posted 2010-03-05 05:29 AM

The title intrigues me, as it reminds me of an intense episode in my youth when "bad letters" were burned in an attempt to make things right again.

Fire, smoke, ashes ... they symbolize so many emotions. Dear Heather, your poetic rendering of these emotions is simply superb.

... and love has its way to BE through it all.

Love,
Margherita

Chalmette Guy
Senior Member

since 2009-03-11

Posts 1257
Louisiana

2 posted 2010-03-05 08:27 AM

This is so very intriguing.

You always write with such profound depths that I love to try to explore and understand and also feel what you write about.

You are extremely talented Heather.

unboundpoetess
Member

since 2008-05-24

Posts 477

3 posted 2010-03-05 11:58 AM

Thank you, dearest Margherita.Love does have it's way, and I have never been more thankful.

Jerry, I can always count on you for a read. Thank you so much.

L,
H

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