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Mania

She shifts
        from red to blue and back
crease of shadows
        lace her fading calm
far from grace
        she rages on 
                     and on
pacing mania
         stride for slanting stride
In awkward light
         she sees aparitions
not for others eyes
           she laughs
                 she cries
           she accuses
                  she lies
Broken sanity
          runs through
her clutching fingers
           leaving Pollack like patterns
in her wake
— atorn, Mar 19, 2008

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Country/Region: new mexico

Favorite Poets: leonard cohen, charles bukowski, gary nicholson

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poewriter58

18 years 2 months ago

Andrew

You don't write them very often but when you do you make them worth the wait add another T to pattern and you'll be just ducky Chrys
professor

professor

18 years 2 months ago

Pollack

Your poem caught the inevitable progression into an manic attack very effectively Andrew. So was Pollack the fish with weird looking face or Jackson? lol. Keith
Candlewitch

Candlewitch

18 years 2 months ago

Mania

You hav captured obsessive behavior well. I wonder how Pollack would have transfered your poem into paint.