A Reprieve from Missing Her

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Open Poetry #33

A Reprieve from Missing Her

davidmerriman
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since 2003-04-30

Posts 123
Dallas, TX

0 posted 2004-09-03 08:47 PM

A Short Reprieve from Missing Her

Now with
The void slowly lapsing,
The heavy hole submerges
And fades in the distance.

Outside little droplets
Sprinkle along the sky and ground,
Little invisible balls of pressure.

My tunnel of thought has collapsed
And in its wake, I feel so foreign
In this strange, concrete wasteland.

I stare and watch a starving bird
Picking away in frantic jolts
A strewn out, empty fast-food bag.

Here they come; these beautiful
Intricate dinosaur robots
Crawling across the ground and sky.

Here in this sad, strange image,
No longer easily labeled
As something in normality,

Where grass and metal fight
And tear the flattened earth
And soak in its strange loneliness,

I find myself and see these birds,
Elegant natural reactions
Bubbling in a ravaged land.

What processor must be buzzing
Within such sleek dark skulls?
Surely it is not so lucid.

I feel developed, but only a piece
Do I possess and process.
This utterly peculiar piece,

Is all that I possess.
I get up with my clothes and thoughts,
Stuck and muddled in the tunnel,
Once again.

Nightshade

Member Patricius

since 2001-08-31

Posts 13962
just out of reach

1 posted 2004-09-03 10:30 PM

Interesting write. Enjoyed. Chris

"At one glance
I love you
With a thousand hearts."

— Mihri Hatun, Turkish poet

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

2 posted 2004-09-04 01:40 PM

I know how this feels

iliana
Member Patricius

since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

3 posted 2004-09-04 03:31 PM

David, a moment of lucidity, I think! Great writing. I don't believe I've welcomed you to Passions, yet. I've been gone for about a week.....so, Wecome to PIP, enjoy.......jo

Sunshine

Administrator

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

4 posted 2004-09-04 05:08 PM

Well where in the heck have you been, young man?
It's so good to read you again!
Welcome home!

iliana
Member Patricius

since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

5 posted 2004-09-04 06:18 PM

Now I feel a little silly welcoming you when I see you were here before me. So, welcome back. Again, enjoyed this.

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