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Open Poetry #22

Sandpaper Heart

1slick_lady
Member Ascendant

since 2000-12-22

Posts 6088
standing on a shadow's lace

0 posted 2002-10-04 07:12 PM

Sandpaper Heart

explain
your sandpaper heart
at our introduction
and after I thought
I would like you
to rub me
the wrong way
but the more
I explored
I found out you
had things I need
just not
what I want
you go around
massaging hearts
grating to empty
and desperately want
to love
but your roughness
is stiff
and you
erase the smoothest
tender grain
of the purest wood

I’m not disappointed, I never expected anything from you.

Mistletoe Angel

Member Empyrean

since 2000-12-17

Posts 32816
Portland, Oregon

1 posted 2002-10-04 10:16 PM

(sigh) Wow, you always have such wonderful novel poetic thoughts, sweet friend, and may true love always sand your heart now gently and cautiously and never erode at the edges, this is wonderful, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Helen, thank you for sharing!

May love and light always shine upon you!

Love,
Noah Eaton

"Underneath your clothes there's an endless story..."

Shakira

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

2 posted 2002-10-04 11:29 PM

Incredible imagery here. How rough love and friendship can sometimes be.
As always, a very intensely thought provoking write, Helen.

Sandpiper
Senior Member

since 2002-06-15

Posts 738
land of flora and fauna

3 posted 2002-10-05 08:33 AM

Much said between these lines, excellent insight!

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

4 posted 2002-10-05 11:40 AM

echo, echo, echo the words of other responders...I found myself seesawing between emotions, which is what you seemed to be doing as a response to the subject at hand with the sandpaper heart

it's a wow!

Whether on the shoal or on the shore,
I'll seek the lighthouse evermore.

wranx
Member Elite

since 2002-06-07

Posts 3689
Moved from a shack to a barn

5 posted 2002-10-05 12:01 PM

You expressed this living contradiction of self vividly, concisely.

A lame, but honest comment on a poem that I enjoyed

~Ed

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