Just A Conversation Piece

by Melissa   Dec 16, 2011


You're as giving as stone;
pretty to behold,
precious enough to ponder
the rippleless spine
at your neck line,
but there is no warmth in my palm
no heart to calm

I'd like to skip you across the river
and watch it swallow your fish-eyed expression
in its murky mouth

I imagine you sinking in the belly of
your new home
that often chokes on air,
and flails about at the notion
of being groped
by human hands

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  • 12 years ago

    by Britt

    I love your rhyme through the end of the first stanza, and was a bit sad to see you didn't dabble in any rhyme throughout the rest of the poem. I feel it would've went together more easily that way :)

    I like the second stanza best, mostly for its funny (well funny to me lol) imagery, but also the depth you can dig into to really feel what you're feeling. It shows some disdain, light hatred here. Love that difference.

    Overall this was amazing, as usual. :)

  • 13 years ago

    by Lonely Rider

    /I'd like to skip you across the river
    and watch it swallow your fish-eyed expression
    in its murky mouth
    //

    I loved the imagery in these lines... profound and beautiful write

  • 13 years ago

    by Rihanna

    This is a good poem. Loved reading it :)

  • 13 years ago

    by Sunshine

    Classy, deep, new! i WOULD humiliate this poem if I say anything, else than : Excellent

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