Sunday, February 26, 2012

Three Poems in One!

At the risk of offending a person who did not give me permission to post her poem, I will do what I would do in Yahoo, only one better. Three Poems in One! A poem by Project Nyu ~ Magpie, with supplemental poetry by yours truly. Enjoy!

























Poem by Project Nyu ~ Magpie
Supplement by Happy Hiram
Absent within pristine sheets
she lay motionless,
well groomed as
the surgeon's specimen
but with no soul
lit inside,
eternally it seemed
she remained tethered
to the countless tubes
that force-fed,
for months poisons
had been pumping into
her bloodstream in order
to exist.
Strangers visited daily,
offering their superficial comforts
to the terminal maiden -
leaving them bedside,
whilst staring
watching her, with their sad
blue eyes and pitying
what mother nature can inflict.
Frivolous trinkets
meant nothing to her now,
as they would
remain grounded
after her heart-beating era
had ended, gathering dust
and awaiting her impossible return.
she ran
past the clump of grape vines
hanging from
the white picket fence
and lolled in the sunshine
like a doll or a dancing sunflower,
but she was sad
because she knew
summer was ending
another year of school books
and chalk boards
and how
would she
ever be able
to stand it all,
but her indomitable
internal summer
always came back
like the
roar of a fountain
filled with the effluence
of winter.
she would always rise
and loll and
rise again.
she was,
is,
and always will be,
our little Dallas.

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