Skeleton Tongue

by Sherry Lynn   Aug 13, 2007


Death from the lips of your beholder
Calloused words spew forth in a haste
Out right hatred leaves victims displaced
Each sentence perceptivity colder
With you there is no warm shoulder
Perceptions of love now defaced
Leaving behind scars unable to be erased
Becoming brittle as you grow older

Most powerful weapon the body owns
Often despised when cowardly consumed
To others you quickly dictate
Less pain healing a broken bone
Anger and fights often fumed
Shallow skeleton is the tongues fate

--Sherry Lynn Hull Richardson

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This is a Basic Italian Sonnet which consist of an abbaabba cdecde formatt. Little more tricky than it appears.

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  • 16 years ago

    by Tom Swart

    Very well done and very well penned. I like that style and think I could learn from it. I look forward to more. nice!

  • 16 years ago

    by StandStill

    Shivers! lol. definitely good.

    Anger and fights often fumed
    Shallow skeleton is the tongues fate

    ^ i don't know why, but i really love these two lines...

    definitely an amazing poem. great word usage.....

    god bless

  • 17 years ago

    by Brian Yazzie

    I don't know why,i just like this one..

  • 17 years ago

    by ben thompson

    Another very nice write. i enjoyed your word usage. 5/5 all the best wishes ben thompson

  • 17 years ago

    by FTS Miles

    Excellent poem both for its craft and its sentiment. I'm sorry, however, that you've acquired the experience that has allowed you to write it.

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