I have a weakness
for poetry--kind that hides
in shadows beneath Sewell Bluff--
naked in plain sight,
fragile,
colorless,
Indian Pipe of a flower that it is.
I have a weakness
for women, Venuslike in tides,
the ones who strut their stuff,
own the night,
argil
unfired ones I guess.
It is
no difficult
task to endure
either weakness.
It is more vice
than virtue.
I have been told.
Please tell me what you think
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i like it
i have a lot of weaknesses keep writing -Amy
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Weaknesses=human...feelings...poetry...
Thanks for reading and commenting...
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I did not know the word argil. Cool.
I've always thought one of the primary reasons I have a weakness for Poets is their weakness for Women.
I suppose a true burden would be an inability to express your vice so nicely.
Lisa
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Thanks Lisa, I needed a word to rhyme or near-rhyme with fragile and also I wanted to relay the potter's clay image.
A weakness is a weakness until it becomes a strength... Some vices can harm--some inspire...
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I have a weakness
for poets in whose work collides
the spirit and the mind, just enough
to make me want to write
response as agile
and not make a mess
of it.
ahem. ok, sorry.
As usual, the poem does more than it seems to, at first. Bravo.
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zara,
Thank God for your weakness (I like the collision of spirit/mind)... You make no mess at all... -
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hehe. Just getting playful.
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lovely ! ... i love how you personalise these poems tying them to (your ?) place ... nicely done >>> gina
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Thanks gina,
Place is a part of my work & a large part of my life. I don't think about place--my images are grounded in it.
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I've been told that too. This is great and absolutely effortless in the manner it has been penned. Thank you, what a joy to read
david
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Glad to know that you have been told the same & thanks for finding this to be an effortless penning...
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Love this. It could be worse, y'know. A lot worse.
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Thanks, Jaden & yes it could be worse--much worse...
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