would I if
I could be and do
whatever
and then some
is it like leaving
bread crumbs
on a wild path?
~kat
(Magnetic Poetry – Nature Kit)
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lust and denial…inked
Two poems for this week’s challenge…
Lust and Denial
the
pain is
exquisite
so say lovers
who have felt its nip
the excruciating,
throbbing burn of raw desire
for the flesh is truly weak you know
it drives us mad if we ignore it
just a taste of honey’s enough
convincing our denial
consoled by pleasantries
gluttony and lies
avoiding pain
hurts us less
so we
think
~kat
(58 Words in the form of a Reverse/Standard Double Nonet)
Photo by JohannaIris @ Pixabay.com[/caption]
Inked
sterile setting on acid
grunge rock slamming my
eardrums, drone of the
needle pulsing into
my exposed flesh
independence
personified in body art
the pain is exquisite
forever inked, I am
free, conventional
conformation be damned
~kat
(38 Words – Free Verse)
Both pieces are for MLMM or Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Sunday Writing Prompt: use the line: The pain is exquisite, with no alterations, but anywhere in your piece, AND – however you choose to explore the topic of pain, you must include a counter-effect, balancing/opposite/silver lining, of some type, in your piece as well.
Shi Sai Sunday’s Week in ReVerse –
Oh how we conform to the reality that presents itself day in and day out. We strive to be good…the good child, the good friend, the good spouse, good parents, good neighbors, good citizens, good humans. With all this goodness surrounding us and legions of do-gooders doing their goodly best, it’s hard to envision a world that is tainted by bad. And yet there are bad things happening everyday. There is obviously a broken link in the chain that binds us.
It’s easy to be good when all is right in our world. It is when adversity, suffering and darkness come that the true test of our commitment to being good is challenged. Do I repay meanness with kindness, hatred with love, injustice with justice, judgement with grace? If I don’t, I can’t claim to be good after all.
I try as I might to be good, I’m not always. Is there a broken link in the chain? Decidedly so, but the break isn’t always the doing of the obvious bombastic “bad” person in our midst. Sometimes that broken link is me.
But that won’t stop me from trying. If being good was easy, it wouldn’t be quite as good. Peace to you on beautiful day! Keep trying…❤️
Shi Sai Sunday’s Week in ReVerse – 24 September 2017
one day i’ll get it right
beneath the brown
we’ve been here before…
these days i just hum
things jes’ aint the same.
i promise to stay in touch
hoping to land a big fish
we tend to forget
yeah, i was the weird kid.
clinging is futile
how it was to be wild,
in the light of day
little things in life
murmur feeling
~kat
A shi sai or ReVerse poem is a summary poem with a single line lifted from each entry of a collection of work over a particular timeframe and re-penned in chronological order as a new poem. Unlike a collaborative poem, the shi sai features the words of one writer, providing a glimpse into their thoughts over time. I use it as a review of the previous week.
Life Music
Kat Myrman – Late 1990’s – South Central Virginia
Life Music
Before fiction, flash and poetry, before this blog, I wrote songs. Or maybe it’s more accurate to say, I heard songs in my head and had the good sense to write them down.
Pages and pages of rhyming words set to melodies filled my head; a gift from the universe, I had supposed, that sustained me during some of the hardest times of my life: poverty, domestic abuse, isolation. I was a troubadour then, performing for my supper, more often than not, in living rooms, nursing homes, hospital rooms and meeting halls.
I never truly considered them “my songs” because they seemed to come from somewhere outside of myself. In retrospect I realize that they were every bit me. My hopes, my dreams, my longings, wrapped mellifluously in simplicity to help me express what I was feeling, how things were and how they could be.
I still make music, but somewhere along the way I stopped singing the words. These days I hum, and that suits me just fine. The earth, the trees, the wind, the sea; they all hum. I’m content in knowing that I am in good company.
sometimes the words come
like an old friend, familiar,
they meant something once
more than a sweet melody
desire set to music
what a gift they were
those streams of consciousness
these days I just hum
~kat
A Haibun/Tanka/Haiku combo for Colleen Chesebro’s Weekly Poetry Challenge, prompt words, song and gift.
Magnetic Poetry Monday
my soul longs for
fall’s full frosting
rustling trees
wet, withering leaves
murmur of the forest
dying, blanketed
beneath the brown
~kat
(Magnetic Poetry – Nature Kit)
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