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Friday, June 3, 2011

zodiac-jeopadiced

poem participates in thursday poets rally poetry



you dont have to tell me,
I know the day
I was born,
just cant remember,
when and whre,
I cant remember
whether it rained,
or,
it snowed,
I cant remember
whether it
happened,
in the desert,
or it occurred
while my mother,
was trapped
inside a bunker,
packed in a refugee truck,
shot in the fighting squad,
while still in pain,
the pain of carrying me,
the pain of ogling eyes,
the pain of raspy lips,

I dont wish to remember any of it,

I cant tell you even the position
Of the stars,
who mocked my birth,
Inside that
suffocating grave,
where my mother bled
to her death. 

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is so powerful and absolutely heart-breaking. Devastating and beautiful

Maxwell Mead Williams Robinson Barry said...

well stated sadness.

Thanks for sharing!

The Poet said...

This is sad beyond words.

Very heartbreaking and all too real.

Thanks for sharing!

Judith C Evans said...

This poem expresses unspeakable heartache and pain. Very well written.

Alcina said...

It is so full of pain and it has so accurate the emotions..

Alcina

Brian Miller said...

whew you twist our guts then turn it again for good measure...lots of emo...and pain

Paulami said...

nice background story to the poem.

Unknown said...

such a sad poem beautifully written ..thank you

Anonymous said...

Hard stuff... well said.

Kodjo Deynoo said...

The chagrin is deep but also well expressed in the poem, well done.

the critics said...

that poem spoke a lot...good work

Liz Rice-Sosne said...

You write with such beauty and such pain.

Anonymous said...

so heartbreaking - well written poem