- Non-Erotic Poetry
- where are the clowns
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porcelain pieces
decorate plush carpet
fragmented remainders,
reminders of broken childhood.
memories collected like raindrops
on the tongue
of innocence.
sad faces with brightly painted smiles
mask secrets,
sorrow’s weight recognized
as the colors run.
drawing my treasures from where they hide
I too am exposed.
discarded robe falls
revealing my shame,
as I rain sadness
on collected happiness.
shattering rage,
colliding with brick
like screams in an echoing canyon.
sharp edges slice open,
bleeding lifelong
disillusion
another wind-up song
unwrapping illusions,
phantom music
of a little girls dreams,
reality's ceramic crush,
treasure box emptied,
plundered by life's
touch of madness.
gone now, my collection
and the need to display
masquerading carnival bozo's.
what remains are the
pieces,
of a super glued life,
existing in a world
where fading glimpses,
of your love for me
linger,
untouchable behind glass.
- COMMENTS
lostandfounderover 19 years agoThe images of shattered clowns cutting flesh struck me hard. Probably going to haunt my dreams. I agree with 12:01, great metaphor.
WickedEveover 19 years agoI'd drop echoing in "like screams in an echoing canyon." It sound better without it and most readers know screams echo in a canyon. I always like to go through my poems and see which words are unnecessary. You can get rid of a lot of extra words and still say the same thing.
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tarablackwood22over 19 years ago..that would benefit from some trimming, I think. Liked the last stanza very much. (edit -- the only comma needed in the last stanza is the one after 'linger'.....super-glued needs a hyphen)
