CCfire

Member since March 26, 2011

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if despair had a name

Posted Jul 20, 2011 · 25 lines · 3 critiques

if he brings a midnight poem he's written
will i let him read it
will we read it a few times
out loud, as we have in the past
and if he shoots like a rocket
into the forest, igniting the fire
as he has in the past
will i want to see him again

because his voice
lifts the gray from flowers
because he says i swell and
break the silence within him

i have carried him
sleep-quiet and placed his

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broken body in the arms of aphrodite
to let the shadows fall away
so i could see his heart
resembled mine

yet i want to ask him
when will i know enough
to stand still

to find our truth, love
and all the nonsensical things
before it's lost
in the maelstrom of consequence

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on if despair had a name from @raj
"Yeah...you are right about it. Chez.."
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Received a critique
on if despair had a name from @raj
"i loved the feeling of despair expressed so very vividly in this write... do you thing "i have cradled him" would read better?..just a wee bit of suggestion..."
20 Wed

Posted a poem
if despair had a name
"if he brings a midnight poem he's written"
Open thread 25 lines
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Posted a poem
reading the leaves
"i will build myself between pages"
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shadow puppet
"it exhausts me to follow you-"
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June 2011
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Most-discussed work
concrete proof

36 critiques to date.
April 2011
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April 2011 — 23 poems
March 2011
27 Sun

First critique offered
on "she" (since unpublished) by @Kailashana2
26 Sat

First publication
the blue crane
26 Sat

Joined Neopoet
Membership begins

First poem published 1 days later.

About Me

About me

I began writing when I was about 16, a journal to my mother after she passed away, I put it away for a long time afterwards and only began again about 7 years ago when a marriage breakdown had me wondering about the cheapest form of therapy. It proved to me that writing it out was better than any $100 an hour psychoanalyst. I live in the beautiful city of Melbourne in the best place on earth I think but I am biased. I love to travel the globe when I can and I people watch, I write about them and how they intertwine my life. It's the only way I know how to write, keeping it real and raw is something I do because I feel you should always write what you know.

Location: Melbourne, Australia, AUS

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