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jayjara
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since 2007-05-02
Posts 90
Florida

0 posted 2007-05-08 07:16 PM



Burning fuel, keeps flies away,
mixed with perfume, leaves me blind;
can't help but think where her mind reside.
Take another step, can't hear myself
think to let me inside.
But inside its different, inside its magnetic.
The dust cap in her eyes allowing notes
to resonate through hollow cones spinning
out of the black, flimsy diaphragm,
but safe we are;
her blue suspension keeping the beat
all arranged in her basket, letting me know
of a silent pleasure.
Every two step, another ache in my ears;
Jet motors drive this quiet whisper.
She's a million decibels and I,
I am her wooden frame that encloses
this white noise.
My eardrums whistle to
the R&B's of her deafening eyes.  

-J

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oceanvu2
Senior Member
since 2007-02-24
Posts 1066
Santa Monica, California, USA
1 posted 2007-05-09 04:24 PM


Hi!  There's a very good poem hidden at the bottom of this:

"Jet motors drive (her) (quiet-- delete) whisper
(at) a million decibels and I,
I am (the) wooden frame that encloses
her white noise.
My eardrums whistle to
the R&B ('s -- delete) of her deafening eyes."

Suggested revisions, in parentheses, are always just that, suggestions.

The beginning of the poems is pretty much dross  -- dross with some nice images, but pretty much fumbling around until you get at what you want to get at.

What might happen if you "started" with the "ending?"

Best, Jim


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