A Seldom Admitted Confidence

today seems a day for tears

tears with no rhyme or reason

tears from the sky

covering my face with a cold but gentle dew

tears in my mind

as a deep melancholia

inwardly rests like a lumpen pile

of halfdried laundry

a sodden sort of form

taking up space

in the corner of a heart

that needs a good dusting off

Reviews

[bluessadmood]

Ohh today there seems a lot of tears shed and so easy ha ha
I hope the bad mood will not last long ,or it could change to tears of happiness
though sad tears could tell of some torture and restless longing..then its not bad to shed tears ha ha
but the tears you tell about here ,are different ,they have no rhyme or reason..they come from deep
covering face with cold gentle dew,tears of mind and a heart that cries..you are right ,this write touchs on another,ha ha
lovely write

[Iota]

This makes me remember days where a good cry just made me feel better. Tears cleanses our body of impurities, so tears are very good. I think sometimes we just feel heavy like "halfdried laundry", it is always a good time to reflect, maybe tear up a little and release things we no longer need to hold onto. Your poetry is very deep in human thoughts and feelings. :)

[Periac]

....i found the turn with imagery of wasted laundry a brilliant portrait of held necessity

[Wildfleour]

Well, other than Orlando's swimming trunks, my comment would be exact......smile.

It is good to write - it is so healing and a place to turn personal pain into perfect poetry.

[deeps]

I like this, it's a deep write!
Very well expressed!

[R J Askew]

The laundry is a marvellous touch, heavy, damp, choreful...we feel it! And the dusting reference at the end adds to the sense of things going to seed a little. But removing dust is easier than dealing with the laundry and, we know, can give a welcome uplift once done. You remind me of my rank swimming trunks in a bag. They've been there a week. But as they will get wet again next swim, there seems no point in washing and drying them. So they stay went for ... years! Melancholic moods are bad, but if you can mine them for a poem of this quality then they are valuable.