A Taste Of Salt

The bitter-sweet

Gasoline, a flammable assault, smothering..
A taste of salt.
Suicide, a lovers fault, encumbering..
A taste of salt.
On many ways the falls are faked, ensuring now a heartless "stake", covering..
A taste of salt.
Hostile lies sworn recurring fate, preparing down the star lit "chase", shuttering..
A taste of salt.
Aboriginal haunting pry's.
Settle in a dauntless cry.
Stumbling.
A taste of salt.
Shown.
Ideally.
Above.
So clearly.
Opening.….
A taste of salt.
-scarred to pustulant flesh-

Author's Note

Opinions, criticism, and any and all comments are appreciated

Reviews

[Great Aunt Astri]

Wow. So powerful in its simplicity! Using words which have several different meanings is very clever. I would have liked to have seen a simile or two, but come to think of it, I don't think your poem needs similes as it is wonderfully graphic. Well done

[Andy Lewis]

Thanl you....sometimes sweet and to the point is a hardy way to keep a captavation. Some of my other work I keep quite cryptic to lure one into finding their own meaning while lost in darkining sentences ....thatks for reading hope you will enjoy my other pieces as well

[C. Rose]

This was an interesting take on salt. Personally I can't get enough salt, but I can see how these negative events are all "salty".
Creatively penned :)

[Bonaventure Onuabuchi]

Repetion of the title A taste of salt, occurs in brillant ways. You've got a tallent, I love this.

[ocean_side]

Structure & rhyme scheme are pretty interesting. Different, and it works really well. I'm not sure that I have a full grasp on your intended meaning, but it does make a statement.

And I'm curious, why do you have quotes around stake, and chase?

[Andy Lewis]

Thanks ....the quotations are to implement different usage of the words where is the word stake applies (at stake & a wooden stake) and chase would be (a chase as in chasing someone and chase as in a chaser for a drink) as for the meaning I like to look at it as the bitterness after a certain event in ones life that wasn't pleasant ...but as with anything I write its left to the readers oown interpretation ...thanks for the review I appreciate it very much