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serenity blaze
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0 posted 2004-10-08 05:07 AM


"There's one I do want you to meet."
she jotted notes innocuous
is some sorta code in sheets
plastic with a dry ink pen.

"She's very good and very sweet--
a specialist of women's needs,
she helps to exorcize the ghosts."
as I wondered what that meant.
"I don't want that on my chart"
I protested much too weak
with tears dripping off my chin.

"It's Alright!" she boomed at me
as I thought that it was not--
nothing nothing makes it so
nothing can absorb the cost
of this lack of sympathy
by one of my own breed, I thought.

It is not "alright."

She heard me biting my own tongue
and told me I was old but young
thinking that this thing was sex
and all it was powerplex
dramas built within a mind
that never did achieve its prime
and so he chose to conquer me?

A compliment. "Yeah, sure." I see.
I was his mother and his wife
and every woman caused him strife
so I must be the nicety and understand
that mark he carved, upon my cheek?
Was actually a healthy thing
for him
if I could see it so.

I thanked her with a shaking hand
I thanked her clutching hate in teeth.
"Let me know your every need."

Like I'd ever that again.


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vampiana
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since 2004-09-08
Posts 296
Nothing and Nowhere
1 posted 2004-10-08 06:05 AM


it was pretty cool, kinda unclear in some parts, but the ending was more clear..yeah, a tad confusing, but overall it came together...
Kirst.

the lone light, in a world of darkness.

Susan Caldwell
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since 2002-12-27
Posts 8348
Florida
2 posted 2004-10-08 06:45 AM


grrrrrrrr...

yes..I understand.

don't know how many times I heard, "It's a disease."  Like that made it okay to do what he wanted...

yea? well him and his disease are alone now, so he has no choice but to do what he does to himself...

sorry...lol...I was ranting.

love this Karen and I love you.

"cast me gently into the morning, for the night has been unkind"
~Sarah McLachlan~

Dark Angel
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since 1999-08-04
Posts 10095

3 posted 2004-10-08 08:29 AM


She heard me biting my own tongue
and told me I was old but young
thinking that this thing was sex
and all it was powerplex
dramas built within a mind
that never did achieve its prime


I sit back in my chair and look you up-N-down, in awe.

Gorgeous.

Mxx

another for my library


cuz fate is not just whose cooking smells good
but which way the wind blows

~ani difranco~

Purity
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since 2001-11-20
Posts 526
Once Upon, USA
4 posted 2004-10-08 10:08 AM


"so I must be the nicety and understand
that mark he carved, upon my cheek?"

Implored my heart to agree... Very well done, serenity!

Wings bruised from turning away in such confined space...Not broken...still healable...still feathered with life, somewhere

littlewing
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since 2003-03-02
Posts 9655
New York
5 posted 2004-10-08 01:23 PM


I am sorry if it is wrong, but I do not agree with that either . . .if I must answer for things when I get HOME, then I shall, but some things I just cannot believe we choose.  


eor
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since 2002-09-26
Posts 959
blues & greys
6 posted 2004-10-08 05:26 PM


i liked this poem the only suggestion i have is the language in this poem is nice but in the first stanza 'sorta' throws me off, i does not seem to fit, even if it was change to 'sort of' it would be better i think.

Pimpin and panderin, on a level you can't serve, dismantle, nouns, pronouns, adverbs, and verbs

silhouetted
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since 2004-01-30
Posts 537
New Zealand
7 posted 2004-10-08 10:51 PM


wow, thankyou very much!

I'm glad i inspired such an interesting poem!

i liked the end, it concluded the poem woth satisfaction.

I like the way you write.

LOR

put your frustrations into four letter words - incubus

Hollow_Emptiness
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since 2004-02-01
Posts 715
New Zealand
8 posted 2004-10-09 01:10 AM


Well-thought out with great structure and honest to god jaw dropping, verrry niice. Wow, hope to see more from you.

Hollow.
Courts.

I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad. The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had. - Gary Jules, Mad World.

serenity blaze
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since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738

9 posted 2004-10-09 06:35 PM


Thanks all for reading and for understanding.

And yep, there are lotsa probs with meter and missing words etc.

I was on the damned mind meds she wrote me when I wrote this thing.

I'd fix it, but I'll take it as testimony as to what that stuff does to me.

(grin...makes me STRANGE, it does!)

Feel free to give me hard critique too--as long as ya don't call me names I don't mind.

Come to think of it, you can call me names too, if you kiss me first.

Thanks again.


devina
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since 1999-10-28
Posts 3539
Cali
10 posted 2004-10-16 11:09 PM


Two words...mighty You.

Loved the feel of you here sis...has been awhile...and? now I know you need a visit. (watch your window)

Love you lady, as always
the sista-been-gone-too-long

Open arms can be the most fragile in the world...



serenity blaze
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Posts 27738

11 posted 2004-10-16 11:14 PM


oh lady...

have I missed YOU!!!!

*curling up on the couch, my head in your lap*

whimper

missssssssssed you

devina
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since 1999-10-28
Posts 3539
Cali
12 posted 2004-10-17 02:30 PM


Oh geez...get me teary-eyed with my preggie hormones and all...
sniff. sniff.

Use my new email lovey...can't seem to find ya?

Your newest niece will be here in January...
I'm off to incubate summore...

Open arms can be the most fragile in the world...



iliana
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since 2003-12-05
Posts 13434
USA
13 posted 2006-03-21 04:01 AM


Grrrrr...I think I'd be angry, too!  Love you, Serenity......jo
fractal007
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since 2000-06-01
Posts 1958

14 posted 2008-08-14 08:44 PM


Your poems about the true thoughts of women not being paid any mind always give me pause.  I must confess that reading you here on this forum has given me a sense of greater sympathy and caution about relating to people in general.  I try to be more careful about my apraisals of what other people might be thinking.

Life's short.  Think hard!
Me!

angelfacegurl
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since 2008-04-17
Posts 67
Swartz Creek, MI
15 posted 2008-08-15 09:58 AM


thats great poem i really can relate i enjoy rading this over and over!
nice job

britt


Temptress
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-06-15
Posts 7136
Mobile, AL
16 posted 2008-09-08 02:57 PM


Ser, where are you these days?


I read this before and now I am reading it again.

Putting it back out there.

"...buried way beneath the sheets
I think she's having a meltdown..."
"Buckcherry"

Irish
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since 2006-05-02
Posts 50
Ft Benning
17 posted 2008-09-17 04:28 PM


Woman~

I don't find this confusing at all really. It is encompassing, leaving the reader to apply it to their own personal situation. It is a universe of "one" and " many" all at the same time.

I do love the way you walk both worlds ! lol

serenity blaze
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18 posted 2008-09-17 05:16 PM


Thank you.

I think I needed to read this again today, so as a woman who appreciates serendipity, I'll give this more sober thought.

I may have been too hasty, dimissing my dismissal.

Love to all!

Sunshine
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Listening to every heart
19 posted 2008-09-17 10:36 PM


You've never really dismissed the real of you, m'friend.

You've only thought you had.




serenity blaze
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20 posted 2008-09-17 11:47 PM


and that is exactly why I think I should stop.



(why did this "bump"?)


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