father

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  • Allegory
    • catarino
    • Cultures come to conquer and their gods applaud.

    father

    his hands pander
    new poetic slander
    as notes choke
    themselves reluctantly.

    stumbling
    against the keys
    of a frustrated
    melody
    his fingers sing.

    rubbing
    dust and ash
    of burnt-word notebook
    over closed-mouth
    face.

    "anticipation only means we wait,"
    he says to no one and
    goes back to sleep.

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    Jay690P commented on father

    06-04-2009

    Wow! Short though this poem is, it has tremendous power. You are a POET, I am someone who occasionally writes poems.

    Elizabeth45 commented on father

    04-17-2009

    Very good! Keep it up! Elizabeth Riggin author/poet

    Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

    Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.

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