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Hooks

 

I gaze into the abyss
I suspect many  do
the idea of falling is terrorising and tempting
but I can’t
love has hooks in my flesh
holds me above the abyss

 

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Region, Country: Sydney, Australia, AUS

Favorite Poets: The Romantics, The Mersey Sound, The Beats and, of course, The Bard

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weirdelf

weirdelf

18 years 11 months ago

LOL

Your comments amuse me, Joe, although i don't always understand them. IRS is the tax department in America, yes? I was thinking about that performance artist who suspends himself from hooks imbedded in his flesh, but in this case they are the hooks of other peoples love that stop me plummeting. They can hurt as much.
S

stardream

18 years 10 months ago

hooks

love it!
R

rider68

18 years ago

Very Deep

So much conveyed in such few words, Although brief it punches’ home the thought, As for the bloody Hooks, they cast you so far, and then reel me slowly back in, There are many times when you just want to go. Great thought Jess But then your quite good at this, Regards Peter
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orgami

18 years ago

painless steal

yes you know damn well what i mean otherwise way back in the nineties i read about this fellow who suspended himself of course the natives were doing this thing on the American plains for years singing away the whole while until their flesh tore hung by the skin on their backs but what I am thinking about suprisingly enough Weirdelf and I know you well my brother is this In the South Americas the Spanish were moving through like the IRS collecting everything and they wanted this damned Jade some tribe or something had So the tribe makes the Spanish come to this great sinkhole like huge huge huge sinkhole People parachute into the damn thing its that large a thousand feet deep anyway the tribe representative says to the Spanish or whomever "Oh yah you want this!!!!! Well here!!" and dropped this huge huge peice of jade into the hole I thought that was so cool well same people who weighed down people and dropped them into wells for rain in the next growing season but still I like your idea of Love Hooks like I want to jump off a cliff but people are holding me back with their love I do Hope that I am one of them and should something happen to me this year well my entries will just stop Lori doesnt have my username here or anything but where ever I be I will be Great Poem dude love it O
weirdelf

weirdelf

18 years ago

Thanks Peter and O.

especially for dredging so far back to find this piece. I once didn't comment on new poems for 2 weeks (calendar time, that's at least 2 months Neopoet time) just finding missed jewels in the backlist. It's fun, eh. cheers, Jess