ancient history's rhyme

I dog eared every page 

   in your old testament of love

  print appearing fainter,

    undone within parchment's hue

script kept running on inky blues

    to the last page's frayed conclusion

closed the chapter in the final hour

  documented and indexed

     under literary fiction,

lust composed of dusty silences,

  pain of heart's fire, reduced to ashes

    encased within the cobwebs 

of ancient history's rhyme &

        crumbling, untimely bookshelves 

Author's Note

Reviews

[s y e]

Oh man this one kicks me in the gut... Hard. The emotions and wording of this poem Mama was just out of this world and painful. I agree with KL - some fantastic poetry do come from the toughest, unpleasant places and going back can hurt us but purging is good.

Flip flops & all that jazz!!xoxo

[Frieda P]

Yep exactly what that kind of pain feels like, thought you'd enjoy this one since you have that song on your profile....thanks sweetie! :) xo

[s y e]

A favourite song of mine just now.... I adore it!xo

[MomzillaNC]

Yesterday's pain gives birth to your beautiful lines.

[anne]

lust composed of dusty.............bookshelves.....loved reading it.....

[Mayank]

your selection of the words is absolutely beautiful, every line is a kick, somber and trippy.

[Ruth]

Tangible sadness...stored and yet not gathering dust, perhaps, yet...still visceral...hugs darlin, potent write xo

[Beccy]

No matter the subject, the best poetry comes from the heart and from life's experiences.

Felt this one. Beccy.

[Rita L. Sev]

This one is powerful, Frieda. The pain we return to... sometimes just to feel anything... We reread the history so that perhaps we may write our hearts free...

[Matching Socks]

Felt the sadness here in this one sweetie. :(

[Vidya Bacchus]

This was very sad chica.The words hitting hard.Some of the best poems come from the darkest places.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

see my friend? you understand where the pain comes from that goes into poetry...because you travel back to it...as do i...
reliving moments, people...poets are like actors...often conjuring up old pain in order to write in the present...
this is saturated with torment...and expressed so strongly...i love the analogy to the old testament and the dog eared pages...
of course sean connery in Finding Forrester would say "Christ, you dog eared one of them"
as he scolded Jamaal...

i try not to go back to those bad places, but just can't help myself...
jacob

[Rene Salinas]

Shelved on the libraries of memories under the section unpleasant sub section done and dusted. In there you will find that memory. But the way you have let all know how you have managed to do that is clever and gentle too as you could have decided to resort to insults .

One clever way to put something behind

Thankyou