Just Call Me Puppet

the deformities dance
like a puppet across the sky
searching for their skin
masked by smoke
escaping their fingertips
 
 
A robot
under the skin �"
A ghost
in your eyes.
 
The victim paints
a sliver line
for the surgeon to follow.
 
In your head
the blood
is merely a loss
�" to them,
it’s a twin
in the womb
trying to escape
with them.
 
In your eyes
it’s as calm
as a shallow ocean.
To the victim
it’s a place where they
torture people
�" a place called home.
 
Deformity is their weakness
enhanced in the nude,
mirrored in the water
ripped apart by the knife
in the hands of the scientist
as they dance across

the silver paint.

Reviews

[A. Amos]

In your eyes
it’s as calm
as a shallow ocean.
To the victim
it’s a place where they
torture people
" a place called home.



Beautiful loved it

[Each Word Counts]

Thank you!

[A. Amos]

You welcome my friend

[Shaun Payton]

To be a puppet is to surrender yourself, your identity. I marvel cause, I've yet to I suppose reflect on a photograph and write. You have talent Each Word Counts.

[Each Word Counts]

Thank you! I have a deep fascination with marionettes and puppeteers when it comes to metaphors and writing.

[Shaun Payton]

Perhaps life as well? I'm not the best reviewer, most times I just relate how a poem made me feel or the thoughts it made me think.

[Each Word Counts]

That's the best kind of reviewer for me. I'm trying to understand how others feel through my writing :)

[Shaun Payton]

:) I'm also talkative lol I think though that's the best aspect poetry, being how it can make you feel

[Shaun Payton]

Metaphor or abstract? I suppose as a reader I can draw my own conclusions, but my first thought was, "this is beauty being governed by the mainstream perception of what beauty is."

[Each Word Counts]

It's a reflection of Connie Imboden's photograph:
http://connieimboden.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/VisceralThoughts.jpg