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Open Poetry #49

Difference

Kaoru

Member Elite

since 2003-06-07

Posts 3892
where the wild flowers grow

0 posted 2016-08-15 02:51 PM

You've heard the song a million times,
but the lyrics are never the same..
The melody waxes and wanes,
and it's stuck in your head again.

Running your fingers along the wrinkles
in your face, in your clothes,
in your sheets
in your memory..

Rooms filled with stagnant, hot air,
open and close and open and close
your eyes, the door, your mind..
you're still here.

The pearls of sweat roll down your forehead,
swinging your legs over the edge of the bed,
but you haven't felt warmth since you walked in,
just cold hard facts and instructions.

That the only difference
between love
and death

is a heartbeat.

BluesSerenade
Member Patricius

since 2001-10-23

Posts 10549
By the Seaside

1 posted 2016-08-15 05:05 PM

Intensely beautiful.
Gosh I have missed your poetic mind.

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

2 posted 2016-08-15 06:04 PM

Way cool! Really enjoyed that! ~L

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

3 posted 2016-08-15 06:12 PM

Whoa! Great write. Didn't see "is a heartbeat." until I had read it twice.

~ If they give you ruled paper, write sideways. ~

Bluesy Socrateaser
Member Elite

since 2002-11-07

Posts 2417
In The Mirror

4 posted 2016-08-15 09:52 PM

Nice to see you back with your fine work K.

BTS

...just bein' Bluesy

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