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Don Juan de Feu
Junior Member

since 1999-10-15

Posts 25

0 posted 2000-06-01 11:31 PM

Untouched

It was a livid, angry red reminder,
ever present since that day
the canner, under pressure, blew apart.
Not one to dwell on hurtful things behind her,
she was compelled to see the way
companions tried to hide distaste, the dart

of eyes away, as if to bear the insight
from their view, a painful shock
far too grotesque to dare comportment stay.
Like furtive morphs, they seemed to need a twilight
time for her, not day, not night
deferring to the past, regards defray.

The worst were those who had been closest to her,
a happy childhood's best of friends,
her wedding's maid of honor, confidante,
if tete a tete, now they pore intently through her,
as if on blinded eyes depends
accord, actors playing the nonchalant.

It was a livid, angry red reminder,
ever present any day,
defacing scar where loveliness had reigned.
But, it would never be that which defined her,
untouched her radiant inner way
where lasting beauty is unscarred, unfeigned.

--Don Juan de Feu
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Poems From the Goober Tree http://nathoo.wustl.edu/goober_tree.htm

Poet deVine

Administrator

Member Seraphic

since 1999-05-26

Posts 22612
Hurricane Alley

1 posted 2000-06-02 12:01 PM

Wonderful! I have a friend who was burned last year and will bear an outward scar on his hand, arm and chest for the rest of his life. He is a sweetie! A charming man who is now afraid women won't find him attractive. He's wearing an elastic sleeve and vest now, but in a few months they will come off. I know he will be hurt by the 'darting' eyes.

Thank you for this wonderful poem. I'm going to send it to him.

Don Juan de Feu
Junior Member

since 1999-10-15

Posts 25

2 posted 2000-06-02 11:16 AM

Poet deVine,
thank you for your sweet remarks and encouragement.

DJdeF

MagnoliaBlue
Member

since 2000-05-12

Posts 367

3 posted 2000-06-02 01:34 PM

DJdeF....Wonderful poem!

HEY PoetdeVine...Tell your friend to hang in there...those darting eyes eventually look into the eyes and find the soul and true person there.

MBlue

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