A Poet, am I?

I am a growing girl with a winter world Child of morning star in a (dark hood) cloaked Childhood would: the fascinations of a mother's heart a red guitar left stretching, while worlds drift apart Swinging on her right shoulder womanhood and get older To flower bolder, brighter, hold her...sacrifice a pleasent share I am a talking head to the dog or the sparrow Speaking riddles to a rhyme, consulting my yarrows I picnic on the sea shore, with a sack of ragamuffins nothing means nothing-still my absolute crime is peasentry For not all love my poems, they speak of woe and wild I am a growing girl in a winter world Inside I am but still a child, inspecting the wounds On my arms and my legs, deprived of the things You'd rather not say. I remember poets like Poe, and Plath in a soothing bath Of blood red posies. The poets with their noses held high Neither here nor there to me and I. No one listens to the singing sound of the crazy guy. Straightened out like a silver line I weave my golden threads to turn these straw fields into gold   "To-day do I bake, to-morrow I brew, The day after that the queen's child comes in; And oh! I am glad that nobody knew That the name I am called is Rumpelstiltskin!" I am fishing for reasons in my pond of sorrow Creating relics for here-after- or tomorrow But it could not be saved, no ears to hear me And so I simply wait for the applause I want dearly.

Reviews

[These Haunted Hallways]

WoW! Congrats with this! It sounded like two worlds or two minds/voices colliding together to make one. To me, it is truly a masterpiece what u wrote. Made perfect sense to me. We laugh, we write our minds, we speak the truth, and never lie. We are great humans that want to explore here and beyond. We are people who love. We are composers of destiny and passion. We are who we are. We are one. We are poets ;)

B.A.

[Deborah Leah Krempa]

A wonderfully written poem. Thank you for sharing. Debileah

[Mark D. Chevalier]

You have a very measured, crisp and refreshing voice Gabrielle. And you captured the emotions of life and conflict. Wonderful poetry!
M

[Mysty Rayn]

Very good. Thank you so much for asking my to read it. I enjoyed doing so.