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Body of Work

Contributed by Silent-No-More on Sunday, 26th January 2025 @ 07:06:06 AM in AEST
Topic: Nostalgic



I’m well aware that they are laying poems
out on slabs these days – dissecting them –
dropping their heart, their mind, their guts
into little dishes and putting their cells under
a microscope. They scrape under fingernails
for evidence and chart wounds, both long since
sustained and newly acquired, on a diagram for
future reference. They drain their blood and
pump them full of something they say will
preserve them, something as insanely unnatural
as the exercise itself, only to then abandon
them, alone, in the long dark night
as if they never existed.

My poems do not wish to be undressed
and undone, poked and prodded, severed
or sliced, only to be forgotten at the turning
of a page. They want to fly, burn, breath, rage
and urge from you the conversation we would
not otherwise have had. They want your
instinct, your humanity - understanding –
and not the scalpel or the thin white gloves
that keep us from actually touching. So, if I
say the horse was just a horse, that the colors
were randomly chosen or that I hung a moon
in the middle of a poem for no particular
reason at all, just let me have that –

but don’t believe me.





Copyright © Silent-No-More ... [ 2025-01-26 07:06:06]
(Date/Time posted on site)





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by JamesStockdale on Tuesday, 10th October 2017 @ 09:09:41 PM AEST
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This is great as a poem and as a genuine offer of sponsorship. I will certainly help in any way possible and I will match your offer.

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by Timotheus on Wednesday, October 11 2017 @ 05:31:48 AEST
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Re: Body of Work (User Rating: 1 )
by JamesStockdale on Thursday, 12th October 2017 @ 08:42:08 AM AEST
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http://www.your-poetry.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=183104

Wonderful country life..........................
Softerware naturally ;)
She has a few hundred like it :)


Re: Body of Work (User Rating: 1 )
by JamesStockdale on Thursday, 12th October 2017 @ 10:04:15 AM AEST
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MoonlitAngel poetry from just this week
She had a few great ones on top of the list now.
I/'/m sure great ones before as well. But I need to discover those.


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by Invierno on Thursday, 12th October 2017 @ 07:32:26 PM AEST
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Good of you, friend. I offer the same donation as Soft. Hit my sh8t. Comment. Let/'/s all keep this blessed site going!

Invierno. (there/'/s only around 360 or so poems. Find one, (if you can) that is worthy of a comment. good or bad- pay is the same.

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by Former_Member on Saturday, 14th October 2017 @ 11:19:54 PM AEST
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hey, that/'/s five dimes man.
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Peace!


Re: Body of Work (User Rating: 0 )
by Jecks on Saturday, 1st February 2025 @ 11:58:27 AM AEST
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True poems are written from the heart . To criticize such is to show a lack of compassion and understanding. It should also be a given that those closer to that heart will have a better understanding and insight as opposed to a stranger.




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