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shadow puppet

it exhausts me to follow you-

dark puddle on concrete
the stain of what you are

once a day
a light gently widens
with only a sky for company
gaze of sun diligently lingering

in the evening
our bodies

skin like paper
winter and bloom

our disappearance sudden with the night

witness me now
without you

flat and lifeless

About This Poem

Style/Type: Free verse

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Review Request Intensity: I appreciate moderate constructive criticism

Editing Stage: Editing - draft

About the Author

Region, Country: Melbourne, Australia, AUS

Favorite Poets: Bukowski, Neruda, Rumi, Gibran, Jeffers, Corso, Waldman, Kerouac

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raj

13 years 11 months ago

Chez

the profound hollowness is very perceptible in this piece...is the random structure deliberate to express commotion of thoughts?

CCfire

CCfire

13 years 11 months ago

You're quite right Raj, this

You're quite right Raj, this was a jumble of a dream, random and incoherent thoughts that I scribbled down but then though perhaps it should stay that disconnected way as the dream intended.

R

raj

13 years 11 months ago

so my perception about the

so my perception about the structure of this write was right..it certainly does justice to a dream of incoherent thoughts...