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Sick day blues
Posted: August 30th, 2009, 5:16 pm
by .Lucy.
I feel like plaster,
spread thin against the hardness of life.
The fever spreading
through me in a surge,
burning my happiness with it.
I am blue.
Everything looks bleak.
Aches everywhere, a roadmap of pain.
A momentary lapse,
a weak spot.
My voice raspy,
it hurts to speak.
I drink tea
to ease my melancholy spirit.
Tomorrow will be better.
Posted: August 30th, 2009, 8:20 pm
by constantine
hi lucy. the plaster simile is a cool beginning. neato poem!
Posted: August 31st, 2009, 8:56 am
by saw
sweet ....the way out of the blue room, is writing it all down, as you have done so nicely...i like the way poem ends with a message of hope....we spin through the cycles of life, just like the seasons...
Posted: August 31st, 2009, 7:50 pm
by justwalt
I have found "that" room to be a library, filled with wisdom,
a place of oneness with the emotion...intense and extreme, yet
safe, like above everything, looking downward at life, and at
myself... I remember the feelings like it was yesterday, but it was
32 years ago when I last sat in that room. There is only one door
there, the entrance is the exit.
your poems are so alive.
walt
Posted: September 4th, 2009, 2:21 pm
by still.trucking
What happened to Sick day blues part two?
Oh well
I am grateful I got to read it before you took it off.
Having plaster throat is a bummer
I hope you doing better.
It sounded like you had moved on to malaise
looking for a job is one of the hardest jobs I know.
I lost count of the jobs I have had around 1980 when the count was about 200. And that is the truth or close to it. Must be a couple hundred more by now.
Please keep on keeping on with the writing.
Writing is a cool job because every thing that happens is grist for the word mill.
Tomorrow it is going to be a beautiful day.
thanks for writing
Think Adam Clay Powell
"Keep the faith baby sister"