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The Marriage Bed
The night’s heart slowly passes mean,
Soul’s chilblains settle in like ghosts
Her breathing warm, but freezing still.
She thinks her will commands my shame,
And words alone can conjure home,
The fractured forms her mirrors show.
A minuet of bones and skin,
With songs coughed out in bile and spleen
Where she believes her words have sounds.
Long since I fled this prison cell,
Its stains and reeks and rings of smoke.
Its micely crumbs and tattered love.
And now, reclaimed by desert dust,
In buttes and spreading Joshuas
A flaming dawn to long night’s end.
Published 27th Feb 2017
| Edited 28th Feb 2017
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27th Feb 2017 8:02pm
This is really intricately descriptive of the image the title portrays, it's very creative....
28th Feb 2017 4:28am
Thank you, the Muse whispered to me early this morning... And I answered the call... Well appreciating your comment... Geoff
Tommy,
The beauty your words have given/
a long night into day driven/
has answered for me the question/
your bed still shared with depression/
does not mean she still has her way/
& tries to reverse secession/
because of close proximity/
has lost because you have striven/
& she's failed because you are free.
RL
The beauty your words have given/
a long night into day driven/
has answered for me the question/
your bed still shared with depression/
does not mean she still has her way/
& tries to reverse secession/
because of close proximity/
has lost because you have striven/
& she's failed because you are free.
RL
28th Feb 2017 4:24am
Thank you, jade, for placing in verse this wonderous comment showing a deep grasp of my poem's thoughts... Cannot express in words sufficient to show my gratitude both for your words and recommendation... Tommy Cat
28th Feb 2017 1:58am
Superb Capture, it hits home as it very much seems in description of a bed I lay in!
28th Feb 2017 4:26am
Thank you and condolences... I was stuck hard this morning as to my place in it... I appreciate your time and consideration... geoff
