Briers weave walls, fractured by scars rasping memories,
suffocating youth, and manipulating its frailties.
Splintering, giggling melodies disengage luster,
peeling porcelain follicles from child and mother.
Bedbugs burrow beneath strewn straw pallets,
biting shame's deceit, and spawning like rabbits.
Joy, bundled in burlap sacks play silent and still,
as father lays to rest life, he loses his will.
Now without child, morning becomes a single ray,
for all that was alive... has passed away.
Wagon wheels lay still in tracks, polarized in a barn,
while mother and father crouch outside... and mourn.
Shoes... unlaced, worn and dusty... whisper in the wind,
never to leap, climb and romp in puddles of mud again.
How can I stop crying... Lord knows I am trying,
but each and every second of breath... inside I am dying.
Heaven fell from the sky, and every ocean fell from my eyes,
I can't stand the pain inside, or handle these... goodbyes.
Author notes
Prompt: Picture Prompt
Sunlight_Spotlight_IV_by_RodRego at www.deviantart.com
A contest entry
- Picture Inspired - Sad / "Darkish" by Manda Kathryn.
450 points, ended March 3, 2008, 7 entries
Honorable mention
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Please tell me what you think
Comments
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Great job - thanks and good luck
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Capture
You have truly captured my mind and soul; I must have read the first line over and over and over before I continued because I knew I was going to end up in the deep end
Amazing write
♥
Thank you for your entry
Best of luck
Stay safe
~Manda
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Such an emotion driven piece from an emotion given picture... Well penned fine poet and best wishes to you in this contest... x Blessings, Lavender Butterfly.
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