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Poet deVine

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since 1999-05-26

Posts 22612
Hurricane Alley

0 posted 2003-03-06 02:51 PM

You’ve set me on this course I fear
and try your best to keep me here
What right have you to decide my fate
it’s time you learned I just won’t wait

You push me once against the wall
I feel the slide, watch me fall
I run away but you find me still
freedom beckons if I find the will

Closer to the open door I find
you’ve blocked my path, I turn, I’m blind
back at the top, back at the start
I take a breath, steel my heart

Quickly dodging first left then right
I will leave this place tho I must fight
I scream, you turn and suddenly
I slip out the door and I am free

**
This was a challenge to write a poem from the perspective of a pinball. Oddly, it took on a life of it's own and can be read as a poem about abuse. I like when that happens except I wonder who's writing who here? LOL

EagleScorpion
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since 2000-03-08

Posts 1644
Here, Now, Forever

1 posted 2003-03-06 03:04 PM

i have a question..

you havent been listening to The Who anytime recently, have you?

Friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble
remembering how to fly.

garysgirl

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since 2002-09-29

Posts 19237
Florida, USA

2 posted 2003-03-06 03:16 PM

Sharon, you find just the right words to write on any subject.....(Or whoever writes it??)

Thanks for sharing your talent with us, Sharon.
Hugs,
Ethel

Dark Angel
Member Patricius

since 1999-08-04

Posts 10095

3 posted 2003-03-06 04:17 PM

excellent Sharon ... enjoyed

Aenimal
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-11-18

Posts 7350
the ass-end of space

4 posted 2003-03-06 04:42 PM

Gee Sharon here i thought i'd been playing a game..if i'd have known I was contributing to the abuse of small silver pinballs I would never have touched those flippers..forgive me?

Poet deVine

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since 1999-05-26

Posts 22612
Hurricane Alley

5 posted 2003-03-06 05:14 PM

Thank you all for reading!! Maybe I should start a 'Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Pinballs"?

wandering glider
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since 2001-04-04

Posts 501
aloft

6 posted 2003-03-06 05:21 PM

had it not been in the title, i would never have guessed
very interesting development
fun to follow along when it writes itself, isn't it?

Pilgrimage
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since 2001-12-04

Posts 3945
Texas, USA

7 posted 2003-03-06 05:23 PM

Oh, I like this one. I can be read from so many different perspectives. Well done.

Nan (Pilgrim variety)

littlewing
Member Rara Avis

since 2003-03-02

Posts 9655
New York

8 posted 2003-03-07 10:51 PM

Sharon - I thought it was about abuse as well - I love when poetry does that - like to have similar meanings awesome TY

icequeen
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since 2001-12-09

Posts 633
FL USA

9 posted 2003-03-07 10:55 PM

very very cool... love the double illusion.
It would take me a year to come up with the perspective of a pinball LOL
You did great!

the only man worth your tears will never make you cry

Corinne
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since 1999-10-28

Posts 5167
state of confusion

10 posted 2003-03-07 10:55 PM

Hey, pinball queen!

Seriously though, what a tough challenge!

Core

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

11 posted 2003-03-08 03:04 AM

very good writing! I enjoyed!

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