Carolina

 

I've never known a ring,

or took care of it.

 

She fears the black shoes,

bow ties and tuxedos,

the bible and the Cowgirl

should be dancing with the comedy,

it frames it doesn't it

thumbs and forefingers

in the passionate open,

needles and splinters.

I don't mind my own darkness, but

I don't like someone elses,

when the gardeners are still up

at the crack of dawn.

 

You really should mount here,

insert hell,

and race us to the sunset,

he's never known a ring,

or took care of it.

 

But as I sigh at how little we know

about real love, and trying to be

on the right side of sundown,

I hear the rain whisper to the hillside

and the drum of my desire fills my ear

and the green begins to sway...

 

"Carolina, I am on my way, I swear it."

 

 

 

Reviews

[Nipplegrinder]

I read this three times. Better each time. Quietly powerful.

[h d e rushin]

i lost my glasses this morning only to find them in the trash can, in other words, i've gotten old.

Old enough to read in the inscriptions, that these short lived, fragile adult expressions are no
more Carolina than Hesperides or anywhere legendary and extreme where understanding
human desire, however classical or mythological, can be cultivated. We know so little about
real love that when introduced, we dance around the cattails of it. I swear we do.

I can listen to you all day long.
dana

[Corset]

I shutter to think what you may have heard yesterday morning, lol. Thinking back on what I was thinking of I wanted to wash my mind out with soap, some exhusbands should be behind bars.
seriously sick some of them, (but on a lighter note and in the now) thank you Dana. :)

[Gypsy Warrior Queen]

Now with a holy host of others standing round me, still I'm on the dark side of the moon.
And it seems like it goes on like this forever, you must forgive me
if I'm up and gone to Carolina in my mind. ~James Taylor


memories and music....always in my mind.....

[Corset]

Thank you Queenie.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

going to carolina in my mind...well already been there...and just recently...

all of my family live there now...

i like the horse references in this...and the ring...that could be a riding ring, but also a ring indicating a relationship...great line "i don't my mind my own darkness, but i don't like someone else's"

indication of someone who has a traumatic and painful life...and wants love to ease the suffering...but seems to always find others who have just the same life...and feels she doesn't want to end up with herself...because she just can't handle her own problems with someone else's added on.

she escapes in her mind...and it is a good ride for her.

[Corset]

lol, actually it's the opposite, I would like to find some just like me, lol...and I have, someone who is intelligent enough to handle my head strong ways with his intellect and not his fists, but we both have so much growing to do still. You should have heard the woman skreech last night, whew some is is powerfully pissed, I am a girl she says! lol, I love people and poetry, every poem is about me, and it's like that for everyone. That is the beauty of humanity, be as a child with wonder in your eyes, this is my world, and it is so for each of us, our very own stage in which we play our parts, you are an actor on my stage, and I am an actor on your stage, and the universe is the set that keeps changing with the lessons we all must learn. No, I want someone EXACTLY like me. Thank you so much Jacob for reading and sharing with all that you do to help with this experience with your poetry and your beautiful light.