I have shared endless pages with you all
about horrible, terrible, me
destroying a miraculous love
about myself, the black hearted monster
mangling an innocent soul
ive beat myself
ive loathed who I am
ive scarred my flesh
because I am the devil
and I have done the devil's work
I havent shared a paragraph with any of you
about courageous, beautiful, me
embracing my own right emotion
about myself, the sun blocked by a cloud
smothering and degrading my being
because a mear boy has said to
and then carved it into my soul as the truth
I haven't written a sentence
about my being greater than what ive chose to show you all
being capable of tides that choke and drown all surrounding beings
about myself, being only flawed perfectly
dropping jaws and filling them with slight tastes of my ability
because I am who Ive always wished to be
and I left it in the rain, to wash then dry up
I haven't asked a word
about who any of you are
disregarding my phenomenality
about why any of your opinions matter
saying that I should practice being something different
something better
something more fitting to your own meak lifestyles
so today I am asking
about who you are to tell me that me is wrong
being inappropriate and vulgar
about who the f**k a single of you m***********s are
telling me about myself
especially the weak
especially the pathetic
especially the boys who have the nerve to call themselves god damned men
so today, as I walk
with my back to all the pairs
of two cents being thrown my way
I am dismissing every coin
stopping only to pick my heart up off the ground
and then carefully tucking it in between coins of my own
safe inside of my chanel hand bag
Being 100% honest like I intend on being with anyone I review I do have to say there's one thing after reading all of this that seems like a gorilla in the room to me. I've written poetry in the past and kind of enjoyed doing it until I came to a conclusion about my work. it became a convoluted mess of emotions clashing with the idea I was writing about. *I am in no way saying yours clashed in this work!***
It clashing on me helped me notice something about poetry, there's a fine line you must ride on the emotions to get a clear understanding for the emotion the entire piece tries to portray. There are stanza's that seemed to have a great deal more anger and fire in spots than in others. Again not 100% a bad thing but make the work feel as if there's little pockets of feeling much like pockets formed in the baking of a cake. Doesn't mean the cake is bad, but that particular bite was slightly off compared to the whole cakes flavor. I think as a whole this poem was a good "coming to be" story. But parts such as:
"especially the boys who have the nerve to call themselves god damned men"
"about who the f**k a single of you m***********s are"
Those don't bother me because of language selection, I use swear words in my writing too, in the same way you did, to show a raw emotion. I just think those two lines seem out of place, if more of the whole piece had a more "raw" aura to it, this wouldn't be an issue. Yet in my eyes this poem seemed more figurative, metaphoric and symbolical message, rather than a raw uncut and unfiltered one.
Again everyone has their own style, don't let me tell you whats right for you. However if asked my personal opinion, that is what i would tell you.
Being 100% honest like I intend on being with anyone I review I do have to say there's one thing after reading all of this that seems like a gorilla in the room to me. I've written poetry in the past and kind of enjoyed doing it until I came to a conclusion about my work. it became a convoluted mess of emotions clashing with the idea I was writing about. *I am in no way saying yours clashed in this work!***
It clashing on me helped me notice something about poetry, there's a fine line you must ride on the emotions to get a clear understanding for the emotion the entire piece tries to portray. There are stanza's that seemed to have a great deal more anger and fire in spots than in others. Again not 100% a bad thing but make the work feel as if there's little pockets of feeling much like pockets formed in the baking of a cake. Doesn't mean the cake is bad, but that particular bite was slightly off compared to the whole cakes flavor. I think as a whole this poem was a good "coming to be" story. But parts such as:
"especially the boys who have the nerve to call themselves god damned men"
"about who the f**k a single of you m***********s are"
Those don't bother me because of language selection, I use swear words in my writing too, in the same way you did, to show a raw emotion. I just think those two lines seem out of place, if more of the whole piece had a more "raw" aura to it, this wouldn't be an issue. Yet in my eyes this poem seemed more figurative, metaphoric and symbolical message, rather than a raw uncut and unfiltered one.
Again everyone has their own style, don't let me tell you whats right for you. However if asked my personal opinion, that is what i would tell you.
my shoulders are forever heavy
my blood, cut with gasoline
tears cut with cement
forever there
stuck in the ducts
of my eyes
shoulders weighing
blood fueling more..