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Open Poetry #33

A New Bachelor’s Ramblings

soul drifter
Senior Member

since 2004-09-08

Posts 711
Colorado

0 posted 2004-09-30 06:16 PM

A New Bachelor’s Ramblings

I’m packing my emotional baggage for the steaming silver train
oh blessed winter here I come,
wearing a t-shirt that says, “I survived this relationship and all I got was this afterlife”.
Now it’s boarding time, it’s forward time for my eyes
it’s biding time for the mental welfare line
and I’m crying my smiles into this window
but the scenery doesn’t notice my hollow breath art.
Instead dark trees pirouette with their leafy brood
so I’m in no mood for things to remind me of you

Soon, soon, it’s the frozen brake’s release
that keeps this market fresh heart wrapped in velveteen.
Do the wool gloves let on to the world of my crippled hands?
Emptier without a ring, without a thing
weighing it down, but my newfound face of a clown.
Really, it’s all a blunder to have no wonder
to see in your face anymore,
even if I’ve been staring at your graduation picture
for so long now, but for so long, how could I have known?
This is the way November winds have blown
ever since we called that night a day
and packed this diorama affair away,
without a blue ribbon to declare the winner
Tell me, who’s the greater sinner?
No, don’t answer that.

Just tell me this, oh vision of my beating heart collision,
where is the remains of us?
On the wind? Shall I breathe us in?
Is it hazardous to my health or is there a wealth of secrets
in this kamikaze portrait in all the sky?
Just lie to me and tell me to try.
Anyway, this is my stop, this is the spot,
this is my life, better off without a wife,
I could very well say.
But who’s to say?

"Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, and tell them; and the truth of truths is love." --Philip James Bailey

ThisDiamond
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-02-22

Posts 9353
Michigan, USA

1 posted 2004-09-30 07:31 PM

An extraordary flow of emotion and insight...
Applaud your skill and healing...
All Good Wishes,
TD

Susan
Member Ascendant

since 2004-03-27

Posts 5104
walking the surreal

2 posted 2004-09-30 07:55 PM

Ouch - power packed emotion and heck of a ramble - excellent.

Susan

Happiness isn't something that happens to you, it's created from within you. Joy is a state of mind.

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