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saw
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artistic license

Post by saw » June 29th, 2019, 10:49 am

wash me hard and deep
let old blood cells swirl
down the drains of time
red...black and white
like it did in Bates Motel
too extreme ?

a good cleansing can't be bad
can it ?...can a man shed all
his tattooed skin pictographs
those old super 8 movies
from a life that doesn't seem real
I'd like to meet my body double some day

live and let live, seems okay to me
i worked my ass off, too busy most weeks....
I paid my bills, but did I pay attention ?
I packed my lunch at 5 am so loooong
the baloney would stretch around the earth
like a belt with a zillion notches

mama blew like a quiet gale
papa lived at the steel plant

I learned to fend for myself
at 17 rented my own house nicknamed
The House of Weaver and the street
was a vast classroom of leather jacketed misfits
and emerging longhairs we used to call
Birds and Squirrels

my night school lessons were 2x4's 'cross the back
learning to leap four foot chain link fences in back yards
while skillfully avoiding the clotheslines
so now I just want to rest, forgive
my neighbors
myself

kick back in a dirty old recliner
like a big ole monkey sinking into quicksand
whiskey tumbling some nights from the sleeping hand
to my grandmother's Mohawk carpet,
as I spend most of my days
fondling the trees

flirting with clouds,
rolling around in the grass with that special someone
If you do not change your direction
you may end up where you are heading

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sasha
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Re: artistic license

Post by sasha » June 29th, 2019, 12:34 pm

It's good to look back once in a while - nostalgia doesn't have to be wistful - reminisce about the classrooms, the mistakes, the triumphs - the practical jokes that backfired, those that succeeded brilliantly - the lovers, the adventures, the tears - it's a grand gallery of memory, old paintings lining the walls of our minds. It's good to stroll past them once in a while.
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"Falsehood flies, the Truth comes limping after it." - Jonathan Swift, ca. 1710

saw
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Re: artistic license

Post by saw » July 25th, 2019, 9:11 am

sasha...your response is a wonderful poem

it's good to look back
once in a while,
nostalgia
doesn't have to be wistful
reminiscence
about the classrooms
the triumphs
the practical jokes
that backfired, those
that succeeded brilliantly
the lovers, the adventures
the tears
old paintings
lining the walls of our minds
it's good to stroll past them
once in a while


superb poetry
If you do not change your direction
you may end up where you are heading

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sasha
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Re: artistic license

Post by sasha » July 25th, 2019, 2:29 pm

wow

thank you

I guess your piece just got me thinking of my own stories
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"Falsehood flies, the Truth comes limping after it." - Jonathan Swift, ca. 1710

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Re: artistic license

Post by creativesoul » July 27th, 2019, 8:37 pm

I love the glimpse into the personal
Love it
reason is over rated, as is logic and common sense-i much prefer the passions of a crazy old woman, cats and dogs and jungle foliage- tropic rain-and a defined sense of who brings the stars up at night and the sun up in the morning---

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Re: artistic license

Post by mtmynd » July 28th, 2019, 4:19 pm

fine write, both! enjoyed!
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