Ask Me Why

Poetry suffers tragic language
A sickness thick with words
We poets are proud proclaimers
of liberating grace

So ask me to write a poem
about the bump on my middle finger
from forcing pen to paper

Ask me about the nights
of nocturnal desires
spent alone inking
soul on page

Ask me why my heart
belongs to poetry
for eternity
times two

Ask me how
soft nouns
hard verbs
bent stanzas
crease sheets
as we change
compositions

Ask me how
My lips are
ink stained
because I'd rather
speak my mind

Ask me how
I made music
with my motions
how I drummed out
solo’s on your chest

Ask me why
I would die
for just one kiss

Ask me why I say
I'm masochistic
that I crave the
ache and burn
of the pen

Ask me why I choke
on the verses lodged
in the back of my throat

Ask me why I’m a prisoner
of poetic imagery

Ask me why the vein of my love
is deeper than most human brains
can fathom unlocking mysterious hidden
windows deep in my subconscious

Ask me why ...

... and I will tell you

Cause

We poets are proud proclaimers
of liberating grace

By Samantha Campbell

Author's Note

well what inspired this piece was "W" he asked to do a collab so I wrote a few verses I had that I was stuck on ... but in the process of that more verses kept coming to me so he did not get a chance to add anything cause I ran away with it lol so I have him to thank for this one

Reviews

[Danielle]

Oh I just LOVE this! It is going into my library as a favorite! You brilliantly express your love of poetry!

[Samantha ~virginpoet]

:) thanks

[Who Cares]

Beautifully written. Nice job

[Bumble]

I have to say, this was written well!

[Perfect Mistake]

Beautifully penned. Great work :3

[words of rooted design]

This is gorgeously worded.

[Thomas Fitzgerald]

Almost sattirical, well done, good read.

[ur_ginger_girl]

Wow.

[Just Me]

That is a beautiful poem. It has amazing flow and it conveys the passsion that you have well. I can relate to it. My favorite stanza:
"Ask me how
My lips are
ink stained
because I'd rather
speak my mind"
Thank you so much for writing this. I loved it.

[Samantha ~virginpoet]

Aww thank you I'm glad you liked it

[Just Me]

I certainly hope you keep writing like this because it's an inspiration to every writer and not just poets.

[Libby]

I have to say that when I looked down at my middle finger and was greeted by the little bump I was hooked. This poem is excellent and I enjoyed it enormously.

[Samantha ~virginpoet]

lol oddly enough I wondered if anyone would do that

[writing mojo]

such a quest and question answered in your self in the most Melicent wave...too many stanzas jump of the page got stuck on my mind as a landscape. you bridge with passion your writing states...

[Samantha ~virginpoet]

Wow thank you. You always leave the most unique reviews.