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Open Poetry #16

A Duet With Me

jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

0 posted 2001-10-29 10:17 PM

A Duet With Me

Isacc Hayes - 'By The Time I Get To Phoenix'
moans from my radio over and over,
feeding the agony deep in my soul.
I could turn it off -
end the supply of pain it provides -
but don't want to.
Want to hurt,
to suffer,
to feel the death of living without you there,
to pay in massive sorrow for whatever I did to drive you away,
to know life alone,
unloved -
small repentance
for whatever I said,
or didn't…
when you needed it so.
By the time I get to Phoenix -
an elusive dream,
a utopian quest never fulfilled
no matter how many times I try,
how many loves I strive to please -
"Ground Hog Day" without the happy ending,
purgatory - maybe Hell,
maybe,
just not meant to be.
Isacc Hayes "By The Time I Get To Phoenix" -
he's gonna moan now…
a duet with me.

wesley james beard, jr.
© September 2001

((again, I've borrowed shoes to write this))

Magnus

Member Laureate

since 2001-10-10

Posts 14135
South Carolina, USA

1 posted 2001-10-29 10:35 PM

Keep wearing the shoes...you stepped through
this one very nicely.

wornways
Member

since 2001-10-18

Posts 204
CA, USA

2 posted 2001-10-30 12:56 PM

it's always nice to see freeverse written this way, with every thought expressed so thouroughly. the pain ends though... the sorrow passes... one day at a time... thank you for this look into your heart.

Startime
Member Ascendant

since 2000-10-03

Posts 5918
Canada

3 posted 2001-10-30 09:45 AM

*sigh* maybe the happy ending to your Ground Hog Day is still in the making. A sad poem that touched me.

Love I leave with you whether it is in your life now or yet the essense of your dreams.

Accordionmaid
Member

since 2001-10-28

Posts 153
MA/USA

4 posted 2001-10-30 10:27 AM

"Turn on those sad songs..." (said Elton John...)

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