[hrlydavison]

I have really enjoyed the Poem/poet thread...So...

I thought it would be cool to start a Playa peep Poem thread

We can do a certain theme each thread and the one who starts it gives the theme. Lets try to do one every few days as not to choke the topic with too much.

I believe everyone can write...so give it a shot. Lets try to be serious though and obstain from the Bathroom poetry.

I will start the first theme...

Remember this is an original work by YOU and should be a fresh write as you type in the thread box.

Comments to your poem can be left and is encouraged. Not critiques but comments...lets be friendly to one another.

First theme...heartache

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Original poem by hrlydavison
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Corrugated love folded and taped...with me inside

As I remember you were married to your white cap and your clean white well worn shoes

He left you with a bottle in his hand
Left with the girl next door

I could barely talk but Fisher Price served me well
It kept me busy down the road at "Momma's" house who wasnt my own

I grew and grew as I shrank and shrank
Inside

Nine years of trying to find my way... trying to grasp your white ghost
But if you were there I cant truly recall...but I do remember the way you stroked my hair

The pressure finally gave
From school to school
I bounced...worn on the tether

Conferences were called...as I acted out for something...anything to feel...r-e-a-l
The "experts" said I had to go

You told me it was a camp
The man behind the desk said I should stay
We came together... and you left... alone

That was so much for a nine year old heart

Here I am still...almost thirty years later
Still... trying to grasp...your white ghost
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