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Nov 10, 2010
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Heavy Handed Pennings
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I can feel my grip on the quill
squeezing it out
thick heavy lines
shoved to and fro
splashing words
...splotches of words
...spilt over other words
piling deep
jiggling over miniscule pauses
...dripping
...leaking
then another spew of
blackened spittle
even before the point of it all
trickles into awarness
my twiddled tool
...between bowed calloused fingers
drools anxiously for the next bitter morsel
of grimey burnt ash
to slam down on any empty space
...to endarken all
...as completely as death
before running dry
About This Poem
Style/Type: Free verse
Review Request Intensity: I want the raw truth, feel free to knock me on my back
Editing Stage: Editing - polished draft
Comments
Rett
14 years 8 months ago
brittle
Well written. I think all of us feel this way at one time or another. Many poems have been written about the pangs and the agonies poets/writer go through along with my own. It always amazes me how many differing way we can express it. Well done.
weirdelf
10 years 6 months ago
as Rett said
as Rett said