Psychiatric Ward: discharged

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Open Poetry #31

Psychiatric Ward: discharged

Grover
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since 2004-01-27

Posts 1967
London, ON, Canada

0 posted 2004-03-27 03:09 PM

Psychiatric Ward: discharged

highway fever melting rubber
tires easily into fatigue
wear, worn out-- blown out
of reason, sanity crawls to a stop.

short screeches, scream leeches
the night, dark-- blackened
dreams, night-mares: female horses
run shoeless-- pitter-patter.

confused minds grope, rope
the wild stallion: tame mustang
pulls out onto a new road
with map in hand and new treads.

©2004 Grover Gall

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

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displaced

1 posted 2004-03-27 04:35 PM

all better now

Kahlil
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since 2003-04-12

Posts 1881

2 posted 2004-03-27 04:42 PM

you've been reading my mail
~K~

mytuesdaywishes
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since 2003-09-05

Posts 254
a voice from the musicbox

3 posted 2004-03-27 05:18 PM

i would huddle in a corner in the fetal position rock back and forth and cry if i had to spend a day in your "psychiatric ward" (imagination) ...you're just too must for me :Þ

joy has its own justice. and dreams are languid and lawless. and everything bows to beauty, when it's fierce and when it's flawless...

MGROVES

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since 2004-02-01

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california

4 posted 2004-03-27 07:36 PM

interesting i have to think on it awhile.

Bonnie j
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since 2003-06-27

Posts 1588
Ohio

5 posted 2004-03-27 07:48 PM

Once when I was younger a friend of mine had a mental illness and I went to visit. The women were put into little cottages and I thought how sad this place. I seen old people there just because they were old. Some very ill.What a mix this one little cottage had.
Interesting write.
Bon-Bon

Pilgrimage
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since 2001-12-04

Posts 3945
Texas, USA

6 posted 2004-03-27 08:47 PM

With a good map and new tires, you can go anywhere. I like the ending of this one.

Nan (Pilgrim variety)

muted

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since 2004-01-15

Posts 2949
Elapsing, Eclipsing, Evolving

7 posted 2004-03-27 11:52 PM

hopefully you are good at reading maps, so you'll never lose your way again

i enjoyed this because you exposed a vulnerable place in a way anyone could "feel" it

steavenr
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since 2003-11-17

Posts 4058

8 posted 2004-03-28 10:30 PM

nice metaphors...loved the cadence and style

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