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commute

four of us

the morning ritual

sitting together

so very far apart

windshield muddied and opaque

swish, swish

swish, swish

again

 

no chatter

no banter

music squeezing out from radio 2

"tempted by the fruit of another"

silence

silence

silence

plastic plate on my lap

a rushed breakfast

again

crumbs ignored

my mind is occupied

searching through a side window

for something

anything

 

a groundhog laughs at me

from the side of the road

 

I will do it all again

tomorrow
— bunnymug, Jan 22, 2009

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Pencilme

17 years 4 months ago

One star

Why? because you told me about yourself and failed to connect to me..."commute"? Where am I in this? Okay, you had a rough time, boo-hoo, we all do, Suggestion, at the end, write, "And you too will do this again..." :)
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orgami

17 years 4 months ago

visions

Nestle Quick made bunnymugs too pour in hot water and the heat would turn the opaque window into the Nestle Quick bunny didnt even have to add the hot chocolate!! but it sure helped Ground hogs eh? I hitch hiked once north from Toronto and sat taking a break on a grassy little grade like the groundhog watching endless hours of traffic flow past like the great Buffalo migrations of the Midwest hours??? I think I know what the groundhog was laughing at Your poetry is very in depth and made me think long to get to the meat and bones of its meaning I am glad I studied this humourus and daily event
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bunnymug

17 years 4 months ago

Thank you for your comments

Thank you for your comments - both of you. I'm curious. At what do you think the groundhog was laughing, Orgami? B Mug
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Race_9togo

17 years 4 months ago

I like this a lot

The isolation and despair are very strong, as is the sense of routine become a trap. I like the repetition, how it reinforces the emotions. Respectfully Jim "Laws and rules don't kill freedom: narrow-minded intolerance does" : Race
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Conect11

17 years 4 months ago

promising

and full of intelligence, but seems to need that extra "something" to connect the pieces. It's strange, because I've lived this, but I just didn't live this poem. Perhaps it's just me, I admit, but I get the feeling you could make it much more personal. Mark W. Galatians 5:22-23 "22 But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. Against these, there is no law!" My favorite verse(s) in the Bible
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bunnymug

17 years 4 months ago

Thank you, Jim and Mark for

Thank you, Jim and Mark for your insightful comments. Mark, you are right. I could have made it much more personal. Something was holding me back. First poem shyness, perhaps?
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Conect11

17 years 4 months ago

lol, it could be!

sometimes I'm writing a poem, and only later do I say to myself "wow, you know I wrote that just to write that..." if that makes sense. I don't know if that's what happened here or not.We all have them :) Mark W. Galatians 5:22-23 "22 But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. Against these, there is no law!" My favorite verse(s) in the Bible
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orgami

17 years 4 months ago

I like the holding back

its so damned subtle it drew me in mesmerizing me the whole poem the groundhog laughs his den of inequity unchanged for millenium and in a thousand lifetimes generations of grounhogs the buggy has replace the super ego buggy the megolithic off road SUVs swishing past like the quiet zen of the small and effecient the groundhog needs just his garden of fat dandylions and they will grow for him and fat grasses in meridian places in swooped off ramp luxurie we have built his/her new forever and when our cars have dined on the fats of the ancestors to groundhogs the silence will return and the groundhogs will then hear again the falling wing of the hawk and they will mulitiply and it will be good! this is a graphic poem that I love as an artist and a poet
Esker

Esker

15 years 11 months ago

still love this poem

one year five months later "swish swish" for me its a joy reading it again but thats me I Love POetry especially this poets work Esker~