Cedar Picket (from Riding the Greyhound)

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Open Poetry #49

Cedar Picket (from Riding the Greyhound)

jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

0 posted 2015-02-10 02:03 PM

Cedar Picket(from Riding the Greyhound)

I cling
with tendrils clutching
every imperfection
where her soul
and mine touch, rub,
saw and caress
much as a vine
crawling up the side
of a worn and weathered
gray-cedar picket
on a fence
that never seems to end.

I wash my face
comb my hair,
clean the sweat
off my chest.

It's never easy –
never easy,
to say . . . Goodbye.

Big Dog's tires
used to lull me to sleep,
put the past behind –
used take my hurt,
throw it in the wind,
tell it goodbye . . .

But all the washing,
the combing,
the cleaning
can't remove
the essence
of her,
not on the outside,
or the inside,
not from my head . . .

Stay with me,
just stay with me
. . . as I pushed her away.

Roll Big Dog . . .roll,

It's never easy –
never easy,
to say

Goodbye.

© wesley james beard, jr.
december 30, 2014

(Please don't assume everything I write is based on my personal life...)

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

1 posted 2015-02-10 02:20 PM

You are so convincing with this theme you are wise to put the disclaimer at the bottom. Great images here Jimmy! ~L

jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

2 posted 2015-02-10 02:59 PM

LOL! Thank you Lori - definitely is not relevant to my personal life!

jimmy

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

3 posted 2015-02-10 06:23 PM

I have lived this life of which you write. Was just unable for many years to settle down and do right.

~*~ When they give you ruled paper write sideways. ~*~

tracie66
Member Elite

since 2000-01-18

Posts 4713
Australia

4 posted 2015-02-10 11:12 PM

loved this, what a wonderful read! xx

Love is the life of the soul...
It is the harmony of the universe
— W. E. Channing

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

5 posted 2015-02-11 07:58 PM

fine writing...james

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

6 posted 2015-02-13 12:33 PM

Sometimes we have to take a little poetic license and cater to all those ideas that gather in our heads. That's what poets do.
Ida

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