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Open Poetry #13

Saroya Tosses Me

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

0 posted 2001-05-01 10:32 AM

The following poem was written to meet a challenge to write to a painting. After school today, I will try to copy the painting to this message so you may see it.

Saroya Tosses Me
Virginia Salter

stunned here
under the stars
caught up in the piece of it all
the prairie sprawled out below me
across the river
beyond the hills
that have always tried to keep us apart
yet, they had no power
until that horrendous hour
when your lips bade me farewell
your heart, in its spell,
left for the arms of another
now, in the middle of my last ride
from the caress of your tenderness
the sweetness of your crimson lips
I contemplate the worth of it all
without you
life is so very small
reduced to gnatdom
is my kingdom
swallowed up
wallowed up in these tears
that do not fall
to even moisten the sand
with memories of you
for they have dried
in desert winds of your heart
having cast me aside
as tumbleweeds
in Saroya

©May 1, 2001

[This message has been edited by VAS (edited 05-03-2001).]