"Shout" it out

ahh, just read it will ya?

You left a
persistent stain.
Take my
index finger
and the right
amount of spit -
there, that
should fix it
but it
spreads like a
virus
a fungus
that just won't
budge.

Should I
"Shout" it out?

Sometimes
it's smarter
to just
throw it out
instead.

Reviews

[MomzillaNC]

Your prose cuts laser sharp.

[Lyn Anderson]

thanks. I think the best thing about going back is seeing the old work and how far I have come.

[MomzillaNC]

YVW. I found the going back over old poems rather a revelation too; seeing that old pain I had penned, never thinking it should ever see the light of day, was like looking at old horror stories. That past set down in words of pain made me even more grateful for my now.

[Lyn Anderson]

So true -- it removes you from that instant, doesn't it? Seems like another person. I know people like to destroy older works, but that doesn't work for me. I think it is important to move past the past, but not to obliterate it.

[MomzillaNC]

I can’t understand the desire to destroy older works. As an artist or a writer, I’ve often said that every piece I create is a part of me on the canvas or the page… a piece of my soul. I often feel as if I’m bleeding into the page to give it life. Cooly destroying it is just inconceivable to me.

[Lyn Anderson]

The only part of my writings that are gone are the ones I wrote to my ex when we were together and "happy" -- it was a constant thing he would do, take the poems and threaten to destroy them and give them back. he promised, in writing, never to do that again, but of course, in the separation and divorce he demanded them back again. I did give them back, because he was using them as a psychological weapon against me. That, I don't regret. But there were some amazing beautiful poems in there. More than 200.

[MomzillaNC]

I sorry you lost those. I wish you’d copied them. I know what it is to have someone else destroy your work. My mom found numerous journals and sketch diaries of mine when we moved when I was teenager. She read some of it and became incensed and burned them. Even now, she doesn’t see the wrong in having done that because she said they were “too dark” and “just wallowing in ugliness.”

[Lyn Anderson]

That is awful. In this case, I think it was best, only because he tried to use them as a power and control thing. This type of weapon is not effective if you take away its power.

[MomzillaNC]

True. :D

[Trace]

Like sour milk in the fridge...
throw it out and get some fresh and new

Trace

[Frieda P]

Wow, slap me upside the head and flip me over. You sure do know how to write an affecting poem!

[Neville]

My oh' my --- I left my opinion yesterday evening and it seems to have been vaporized... Great words these....N

[Lydia Shutter]

Taking the ring off might help a bit, but the years spent in a marriage that did not last can not so easily be erased from a memory. Caustic and acerbic, your words get the message across powerfully. Lydi**

[paddy d daly]

Clever, nice play on words, great wit..

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Only you can articulate such perfect vitriol in free verse KLG. Flowing and sharp as a razor as always!