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her hands
once strong
and beautiful

now frozen
into gnarled
and sculpted
tree roots

by arthritis

all bent
and knobbed
aching joints

thier skin
marred with
wrinkles
and spots

stretched
taut over
aches
sagging
inbetween

nails
kept
trim

her hands
almost
but not quite
useless

is that
how
she feels
within.
my mothers friend.....
once a fine seamstress and
winner of medals for
exquisite embroidery
now in a nursing home
unable to do the simplest
of things...
her once dextrous
and clever hands
"gnarled clubs at the end
of my arms"(her words)
 Sep 2014 Emily Pidduck
BB Tyler
When all you see are shadows
the source of light is right behind you.
her happier eyes
brilliant even in the sun
but she has a rough feel to her soul
she walks along the hot sidewalk with a dozen bags in arm
looks like it would tire an army of horses
but she says shes fine
"don't bug me with that 'good guy ****'
know your good, just not right now...
cause id rather be mad"

three thirty in the pool of a streetlight
we both swim in reasons
we both have battleships on fire
and its really only the hot humid air that keeps the blow by blow going

by dawn we are curled up in a park
miles from home
making love cause there aint much left to say
shes still mad
but shes ready to cry
i tell her i'm wrong
but we both know that don't matter
we both are just confused by the her that aint here
we are just confused by what should be

her happier eyes brilliant like twin starlight trains
keep speeding over me
and i keep kissing her hand
cause it s the nice guy thing to do
two hopeless romantics lost in the south florida rainforest
(
                                      )
             (
                           )
                           \/
                           /\
                           /    \

sacred day
                             sacred song

Another child
                             bein born

                                (      bein           born   )

••

Silence
                                                  ­thru out the hills

Maidens      
                                     face each other    In the fields

••

Gentle children scan the skies

Looking for         the HOLY SIGN

///////

I take my lover  by the    hand

I take my lover by the     hand


Sacred day

                                        WE UNDERSTAND

Sacred song

                                                 WE UNDERSTAND

another child bein

                                                         born

another   child  bein

                    born
 Sep 2014 Emily Pidduck
1923
I spent forever searching
for a girl whose lips tasted like Cherry Coke with wisdom
seeping out of her throat as she spoke
Him si all
An know.

Him reach out
An hold.
Jah know.

Him mek da rain fall
An quench.
Him mek da snow fall
Wind blow.
Sure as calm follow storm.
Jah see an know.

You walk in sunshine my love.
My only lifeline an so
He made you so fine an so.
Sweet Jah
Wonderfull.
Him see and
Know.
((((  • ))
((  <>  ))
(       )
/                  \
( • )  ( • )
(                  )
|    |

The VISION !

••

In midst a world like this !

She demands an attention

As contrived as it is impossible !



The poems are all one-sided

( the so-called BELOVED never speaks
and apparently is as good as non-existing )


And the WRITER
seems

ABSOLUTELY SELFISH

and ultimately unbelievable

//

I LOVE YOU

is a meaningless phrase

YOU LOVE ME

might have some meaning

BUT

leaves one vulnerable and hence it is not used here
~~

*Once, I was a hard sand stone
Neither had I made a tune nor a tone
I had broken after a strong shock wave
From a waterfall, I had fallen into a pothole but could not settle

After I was moving with a long stream as a rolling stone
Now I have no edge but only passing a phase
A few days ago, I discovered myself as a grain of sand
And day by day, I have been drowning beneath the ocean

~~

@ Musfiq us shaleheen
Reply to the dearest Poet Joe Cole's this week challenge:
this poem is based on life how it has become changed in course of time like a rolling stone to a grain.

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(Joe Cole's Challenge)

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