Broken Things
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| Painting by Fay Collins |
A voice
Echoing grit and pain
Adrift through barren trees
No one
To capture the pleas
Of broken things
Busted dreams
Echoing grit and pain
Adrift through barren trees
No one
To capture the pleas
Of broken things
Busted dreams
Colors fading
Pained by truth
Wind bursts
Beckoning
To be felt and seen
We are
Reaching... Reaching out
Breathing out
With a fractured
Scream
Written for dVerse Poets Pub
Very nicely done! Takes me to the Scream by Munch! Very strong images and feelings.
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DeleteTerrific ending. Brings life to the painting.
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DeleteDana,
ReplyDeleteThis is such a visceral exclamation of thwarted desire and pain. The phrase "fractured scream," easily heard reverberating in the bleak landscape.
Pax,
Dora
Thank you! I appreciate you stopping by to read!
Deleteloved the lines " to capture the pleas , of broken things" . you captured me with this line
ReplyDeleteThank you! I appreciate you stopping by! I have been in a drought for so long. I'm hoping this poem will break that!
DeleteI love where the artwork took you: a powerful response!
ReplyDeleteThis painting has prompted such very different poems, and such intensity of writing. This is a real poem of the anthropocene, of ecological despair.
ReplyDeleteThank you! I always find the different perspectives very interesting and love reading where others go!
DeleteI really like the ending... I can see both hope and the darkness you describe in that painting.
ReplyDeleteThank you! Sometimes we have to experience those dark moments to appreciate the light!
DeleteThe winter does enter us that way sometimes. But the trees will know spring again, and so will we.
ReplyDeleteIt certainly does! Thank you for stopping by!
Deletea very haunting poem .... well done!
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DeleteOh my....I really felt that, as well as heard it, wonderful rhythm, every word, line, packing its punch, and clicking perfectly into the next line. Wonderful...
ReplyDeleteThank you very much! That means a lot due to this being the first thing I've written this year! I've been in a slump!
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