The Slow Leaving is So Fast
grooveamatic
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The goats in that backyard
Are slowly dying.
Their hunched backs,
The matted fur,
Their mudcovered
Sorrowed eyes
Belie the loud crushing
Screams they used to make
Mating in the dark
Under mooney wide skies.
What dreams they have now
With sleep are slow
Intangible wisps;
Slouching shadow-structures
(light playing on eyelids).
Years ago we used to get drunk
And feed them unripe apples,
Imagine them galloping across the field
Their fluffy gray hair
Billowing in the wind like capes.
Are slowly dying.
Their hunched backs,
The matted fur,
Their mudcovered
Sorrowed eyes
Belie the loud crushing
Screams they used to make
Mating in the dark
Under mooney wide skies.
What dreams they have now
With sleep are slow
Intangible wisps;
Slouching shadow-structures
(light playing on eyelids).
Years ago we used to get drunk
And feed them unripe apples,
Imagine them galloping across the field
Their fluffy gray hair
Billowing in the wind like capes.
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from my window to yours
If I followed you home like they,would you keep me?;)
A whisper and a chill
adv2005
"Why do I bother?"
The 11th Commandment.
"Whatever"
PETITION TO STOP THE BAN OF SMOKING IN BARS IN THE UNITED STATES....Anyone?
wow...thanks!!! I'll tell ya...I haven't been this happy w/ a poem of mine for awhile. I just love this one. I'm glad you like it too!
Thanks Ali!! Of course I would keep you if you followed me home! I'd keep you....occupied.
So, I saw that you got Philly tix. We shall have to meet up somewhere beforehand!
Send Eddie my love....:););)
Better yet...this is for you
allison:)
A whisper and a chill
adv2005
"Why do I bother?"
The 11th Commandment.
"Whatever"
PETITION TO STOP THE BAN OF SMOKING IN BARS IN THE UNITED STATES....Anyone?
you need to get published, man....
OK dear, have good sleeping. I'll call ya soon, although I work till midnight or so the next 6 days...so sometime next week?
here's my love:
Why thank you, Sir Wrong.
Published? That would be cool, but it's not something I feel the need to try. My life is totally complete right now.
Thanks ISNer!!
well, to be honest with you - the second reading is better...because you can see the device at work - setting up the scene...and then emotion in the piece comes into play in the next to last stanza...good imagery...my biggest problem, for sure...it's the mundane that holds memories forever.
from my window to yours