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Rated: 18+ · Book · Spiritual · #1149750
10k views, 2x BestPoetryCollection. A nothing from nowhere cast words to a world wide wind
#1035330 added July 21, 2022 at 11:30pm
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Hung To Dry/Yet Another Impulse
To the poet within the reader:
I can’t define the impulse
until words attempted put to it.
Sometimes, it’s the whole of my life —
gut reactions, feelings emotional with color longing
to be painted in words. And even when finished,
feelings faded, words linger empty, aimless,
as I stare at the dry wall of myself.


A Painting Hangs

Somewhere probably hangs an inviting painting
of an unpurposed, rustic chair.


In a sturdy Adirondack begging a friend,
frequent a call from the secluded lawn
along that saggy, gray fence.
Irises purple decadence, mere glimpsed,
truly missed, enmeshed by weeds
and invading ground cover that crept,
snake as replicate green in the bare,
weaved. Escape could frame my sweaty ass
to hard surface, leaned back as invitation
to view bobbing, waving pine limbs.

I could see myself there, not a care, clutching
clear-beaded, brown glass; sample amber, light.
A breeze might brush my chin, skin bared,
tousle hydrangea heads slow-lifting from low
after a night gushed, glistening a radiant,
returning scene a sneaky sun could spy. I could
pull off worn high tops that miss hardwood
of yore, peel socks like foot-shaped stickers,
toe the thick patch sheltered by crotchety crabs;
white blossoms long since blended, bled for her.

Yup, it’s out the window and I’m alone in here.
I could be care free, if I had a moment to share...



7.17.22

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