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serenity blaze
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since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

0 posted 2002-08-13 03:16 AM

I guess I should own up to it.
Responsibility is mine.
Facing mirror's bitterness--
Sour grapes will bitter wine.

I take the leather from my throat--
and I finger silver spike.
I wish it were a cameo--
I wish I saw a face I liked.

I wipe the glitter from my eyes--
I slather gloss of lips 'cross face.
I am become a cubist clown--
a joker wild--in spider's lace.

I grip the marble under glare
trying to avoid my stare--
where is the little girl I knew?
I gaze into the eyes of shrew.

I wanted things so different--
roses growing on the fence--
with herbs in shade beside the porch--
it's true--I really did want more...

even if it looked like less--
it would seem the grandest wealth
to stand without urge of confess--
and look into the eyes of self.

brian sites
Senior Member

since 2002-06-25

Posts 1475
usa

1 posted 2002-08-13 04:04 AM

yes it would
but, then
if we were that wealthy

PIP would be a ghost town

peace of mind to you, lady
BS
PS you're not a shrew

I never aimed at reality; I aimed at truth. --Orson Welles

Mysteria

Member Laureate

since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

2 posted 2002-08-13 04:05 AM

Oh how sad, and I wish for you that it was a cameo too. Dealing with loss of self is one of the hardest things in life to deal with, and to put the pieces back together. The same drive that runs things down can indeed build them back up, and in that I find hope. Great write Karen.

I pass this way but once so I hope to meet you.

Sharon

Janet Marie
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since 2000-01-22

Posts 18554

3 posted 2002-08-13 08:37 AM

I guess I should own up to it.
Responsibility is mine.
Facing mirror's bitterness--
Sour grapes will bitter wine.
====================================
even if it looked like less--
it would seem the grandest wealth
to stand without urge of confess--
and look into the eyes of self.
===================================

time after time you write the words I no longer have...or wont face inside myself.
The mirror reflects someone I dont recognize...yet knows all too well.

love you KA
mothyme

If all the tear drops went to heaven
And if all the pain was confined ...
Would I be your salvation
could I make your spirit shine.

KWSB

wranx
Member Elite

since 2002-06-07

Posts 3689
Moved from a shack to a barn

4 posted 2002-08-13 10:04 AM

Methinks, Karenity, that you possess a stronger sense of self than most. (not quite knowing what that says about the rest)

I say this because you have left your portrait about the pages, herein. And, all that read you - know you, or enough about you, to be aware that you are, in fact...More

~wranx

The shortest distance between two points...
is sometimes, intolerable.

Bukowski

wranx
Member Elite

since 2002-06-07

Posts 3689
Moved from a shack to a barn

5 posted 2002-08-13 10:05 AM

Oh!
Nice poem, BTW.

~wranx

serenity blaze
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since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

6 posted 2002-08-13 11:09 AM

*thank god/dess for gentle men/women...*

devina
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since 1999-10-28

Posts 3539
Cali

7 posted 2002-08-13 07:56 PM

"a joker wild--in spider's lace."

that has got to be the prettiest image I've had in awhile...

you and your harsh tones toward yourself sis...you are beautiful and I love this reckoning of you inside yourelf...just try to be nice to you...say, "self" (as you call you)..."I am so damn beautiful, inside and out"...then I'll be agreein with you!

love ya!!

Open arms can be the most fragile in the world...

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