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OVERWHELMED ARTICULATION



Cool and deft, the musical voice flows…..Like a smooth silk ribbon Normally beautiful and perfect,But is now marred with emotional snags, Broken and cracking notes.  The sounds become skewed, The ribbon disfigured…. For it’s tied around a finger, And the reminder is too muchFor one voice to bear.





— Blue_Halcyon, Jan 18, 2009

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Region, Country: Florida, USA

Favorite Poets: Sylvia Plath, Rumi, Kahlil Gibran, Edgar Allen Poe, Lewis Carrol, Yeats, Bukowski, Langston Hughes, Johanne Wolfgang von Goethe, ect.

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RSScheerer

RSScheerer

17 years 4 months ago

Smooth flow

Your writing remains consistent. Words and meaning flow through this piece smoothly and flawlessly. Very impressive. I would consider removing the caps from your title and changing "Overwhelmed" to "Overwhelming." ~ Ronda
Nordic cloud

Nordic cloud

17 years 4 months ago

The only thing

which made me feel i could say something was the "its", when your poems demand a serious respect for each word this one could be more potent as "it is" its only me having this feeling. Maybe then the "a-round" is too much and could become "round." But I am no expert. The poem makes me think of the little bit in my piece about revealing secrets, writing one's memoirs where I said :- From "Memoirs and Poetry" "One could write one’s Memoires, but then one would not be able to publish them until one was dead, or until “they” were dead; or one would have to tie two fingers together while writing, to prevent one pointing at anybody! Ann of Norway