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jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

0 posted 2013-04-29 10:20 PM

Beware The Spider

You . . .
break my heart!

Pieces fall like tears,
splotch the ground,
color red,
or is it the ground
that’s red,
the splotches,
wet, deepening it’s hue.

Fall
knocks loose leaves
from sleepy trees,
somber yellows and browns.
Red’s what I see most,
a splotch on brown,
an edge on yellow,
centered and spread,
multi-hues
of shredded heart,
falling,

f
a
l
l
i
n
g

Beer
used to revive me,
lift me above the pain,
move me
from inner to outer space
where everything was okay
and you were only a star
way out there,
very dim,
almost gone.

The universe collapsed . . .

I vomited
on the bar room floor,
ticked people off,
suffered badly the next day,
was burned by the disapproval
of your fiery glare
in the only picture I have left:
bedside table,
your side of the bed,
so I have to lean over you
to see it.

Pieces of heart fall like tears,
die in the depth
of thick brown carpet,
no color at all.
Disapproval . . .
even from the floor.

Men
are so slow-witted
when touched by a woman –

Beware the Spider!

She'll make you cry.

© wesley james beard, jr.
april 6, 2013

(not about me)

Lighthousebob
Member Elite

since 2000-06-14

Posts 4725
California

1 posted 2013-04-30 01:02 PM

Very colorful! ...um, except maybe the vomit on the bar room floor, but, yeah, come to think of it, that makes for colorful poetry as well. I appreciate how you take the extra bit of time to display your poetry just right. Enjoyed!

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

2 posted 2013-05-08 10:20 PM

Nice...its something to do with attractions vs. attachments...attractions are ok but attachments can bring much emotional suffering...James

Alison

Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

3 posted 2013-05-10 02:42 AM

jimmy,

I like this as much as any poem that I have read of yours - and I like your poems a lot.

Alison

PS - I love the new profile picture!

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

4 posted 2013-05-10 03:16 AM

Interseting perspective, Jimmy, Well done.
Ida

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

5 posted 2013-05-14 02:03 PM

Pieces of heart fall like tears,
die in the depth
of thick brown carpet,

It doesn't seem to matter the perspective or the situation... when a poem is really good, I'll always find lines that feel like they're mine. *S*

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