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Saxoness

Senior Member

since 1999-07-18

Posts 1102
Texas

0 posted 2002-04-04 01:28 AM

This is the year for pain.
Everyone bleeds together-
bad memories are infectious
and when we kiss the paper
we write on and pass it around,
we exchange our own soured insides
for someone else’s.

Some of us write about
bad parents,
another person about
violations of the heart, or soul, or body-
while someone else
can't find enough of a voice
to say anything but "help me."

And yet-
a truthful poem
is so hard to come by.

We are all saying everything
without saying anything,
we come and we go, learning how
to interpret each other’s secrets.

For a change
I'd like to be obvious-
what if I write in red
when I'm angry,
blue when I'm sad,
pink when I'm sensual,
and black when
I scare myself.

We should all be so
color-coded
and exposed.

This is the year for honesty.
We are all hung up on the same issues,
on the same line,
strung out on a ledge
feeling isolated
and crowded at the same time.

It's funny how
no matter how much
we write about suffering,
we still don't know what to say.

"Glory remains unaware of my neglected dwelling where alone
I sing my tearful song which has charms only for me."

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

1 posted 2002-04-04 02:29 AM

Alrighty then...James

Sven

Member Laureate

since 1999-11-23

Posts 14937
East Lansing, MI USA

2 posted 2002-04-04 03:54 PM

quote:
And yet-
a truthful poem
is so hard to come by.

really?? perhaps you're right. . . or perhaps we just write what comes. . . who's to say??

well done my friend. . . good to see you writing againg. . .

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To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world.

Enchantress
Member Empyrean

since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

3 posted 2002-04-04 04:04 PM

Very nicely done Angela.
And very very true...
Or perhaps we write exactly what we mean..
without realizing it!
Hugs.

Interloper

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-06

Posts 8369
Deep in the heart

4 posted 2002-04-04 05:10 PM

Well, you said it pretty well

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