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A Man in a Room, and other poems - 11. contempt her sweetly

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Poem No. 25

 

January

 

A ripple of meaningless words

these have been

Born of the sludge, it now returns

to what it was.

A mire of meaningless words[1]

 

 

 

Poem No. 26

 

The cold sweeps towards my door,

taking the power to bloom away.

It comes with velocity un-seen,

and still the more,

I'm happy that it's going to stay.

 

Goodbye you worthless want;

I don’t need you at this time.

 

 

 

Poem No. 27

 

My love is sweet and ugly

she can smile for lovely trees

and smell like a gorgeous breeze –

she can speak so smugly

of sophisticated bees

 

My love is a strong contrast

filled with the beauty at hand

or slapped so cruelly by 'Man' –

she holds all of the past

but thinks the future is grand

 

My love, I do hate her so

she holds my thoughts as captive

and can't tell me how to leave –

contempt her sweetly to know

I want my mind to live

 

 

 

[1] When I came to type this poem, I remembered I'd set a goal to write one poem a day for the entire month of January. This is the concluding one of the exercise, so poems No. 1 through No. 24 are the 'these' in this poem's second line.

 

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On 02/23/2017 02:15 PM, Parker Owens said:

I can see so much in these poems of late days in a cold month. I can read them as frustrations, or as interesting paradoxes...welcoming the cold, praising the ugly love...the cold my kill flowers, but the image bloom in the mind. I find these fascinating.

Thank you, Parker. You are always so generous with your time and thoughts. I like your take on the poems a lot, and I appreciate the comments, my friend.

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