Here my feet rap at soil and grovel in defeat,
an unconventional conversation of conflicting beats.
The sun licks at the foil of a mountain wading in complete astonishment,
the skin that shows at the peak and splits apart like the beak of a winged flight of suicide.
The doughtiest voice pulls down curtains and cuts the sheets up in various sized strips,
sprays moonlight in and through a naked window in unstable wheezes of seasoned breaths that skin everything bare,
reduced from a proud and bold stare,
the pitcher released a cube, a component shone with every single compliment said,
for the well to eat up and never repair and hold dear like the child who fell in three months prior and lost every organ to submersion.
I said to myself sadly that I have failed,
that I’ve succeeded in conforming to nature’s sickest test and carried it out my best.
The reproduction of an unhealthy thought that plagues and maims every wall that once depicted a simplistic feature that reflected beauty so beautifully,
it’s full of cracks and insects that poke at the shadow cast back on it,
courtesy of a window decorating the wall adjacent to it,
wet with rainwater and leaks that shivered like sickness in the ward.
Author notes
It's a poem.
What's your favorite candy?
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You word choice throughout this piece is very powerful. I've read it through three times now and I'm still lacking something to comment because I'm just reeling from how it has been written. The last line especially is very powerful by itself and my favourite line, a very good closing to the poem.
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I love this. Even though I would call it a prose-piece (poetry in story-form) than an actual poem, it had all the vivid mental images that stimulated the readers' senses at all the right times.
I'm sorry if this is personal, though if it is, I hope that writing this has helped you to find some sort of closure. Well done, and keep up the good work!
Oh, and to answer your question: I like Hot Tamales and Wint-O-Green Lifesavers
Happy writing!
Laura
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