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Impromtu Poetry

Christina Myers
Member

since 1999-06-21

Posts 159

0 posted 1999-06-23 11:00 PM

I need to give up the ghost tonight,
and as the hopelessness comes crashing down
my ankles are awash in the blood
I have always refused to bleed.

The truth of what I have become
and the truth of what I need to say
is the silence
that splits my ears,
dividing the heart within me
burning the pain of my soul.

And this word-fight,
this desperate cry I offer to the game
is nothing but vanity.

A futile attempt at redemption.

but it is what I do to survive,
it is what I do to live a life that IS worth grasping
and sucking dry....

a life I decided to want Today/Tonight/Right Now.

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"These poems, they are things that I do
in the dark, reaching for you...whoever you are
and are you ready?"
June Jordan

Balladeer

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Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-05

Posts 25505
Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA

1 posted 1999-06-23 11:08 PM

WHOA!! This is a dynamic lesson in word usage on display. Great lines expertly done. Good work.

Christina Myers
Member

since 1999-06-21

Posts 159

2 posted 1999-06-23 11:14 PM

thank you, Balladeer...
a personal poem that almost never saw the light of day until a friend convinced me otherwise.. sometimes I guess we *don't* know better.

-C

#5 PS
Junior Member

since 1999-06-21

Posts 19
Ogden, Utah, USA

3 posted 1999-06-25 04:08 PM

This got my attention from the very first verse! I am by no means a professional or expert poet, but your work is always so gripping...you have a fan! ~thats my (#)5 cents worth~

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#5 Poetic Society

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