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My Weight of Pain

Reality breaks
 my crystal charm
  drawing me down
   totally disarmed

    Nausea brings
     her newest plan
      this divas might
       wont be outran

       Headache from hades
      racking my head
     lifting it open
    filling with dread

    Shaking the bed
     into the night
      my fever consumes
       all of my fight

       Elixer in hand
      praying it works
     lodging a remand
    to all my hurts

    Swallowing magic
     in liquid form
      dripping on tongue
        hating to conform

       Entrapping a breath
      centered my soul
     making me stronger
    by reigning its hold 

   Shutting my memory
  dreaming no pain
 bewitched this potion
beauty in the profane

— Seren, Jun 15, 2009

About This Poem

About the Author

Region, Country: Beyond the Black Stump..Australia, AUS

Favorite Poets: Pablo Neruda, P.K.Page, W.H.Auden, to many and various to include them all ...

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Candlewitch

Candlewitch

16 years 11 months ago

No

Not a load of crap... very honest and steeped in reality. I believe this is the way most of us feel when we are ill, we have great hopes in the magick of medicine. And don't forget the power of positive thinking. Another great write, from a great gal! Love, Cat
Seren

Seren

16 years 11 months ago

Cat

This is as honest as I get , Thank you for the read I didnt know if this one held any substance or was just another fluffed piece ... its hard to judge for myself ... thanks(hugz).. love Jayne
Bonitaj

Bonitaj

16 years 11 months ago

A WAIT OF PAIN

You go girl!!! Is that a play on "a Weight of pain" as in Lifted? Stunning layout - perfect imagery! an absolute winner... par one niggling factor>>> The last line? Just doesn't quite work for me but that's personal. Until I can come up with an alternative I shall desist! Love it though Thanks Boni
Seren

Seren

16 years 11 months ago

Bonitaj

You clever woman I had orginally started with Weight in the title but changed it to wait ... glad you picked up the subtle pun ... The last line is meant to hold the reader in now .... Taking the potion/medicine , is a beauty of humanity ... hmmm thats given me an idea ... I shall think on it till I edit it ...thank you for the read so glad you like it much love Jayne x x
Cloudthings

Cloudthings

16 years 11 months ago

You clever thing, I love the waves (of pain?)JC, they are brilli

You clever thing, I love the waves (of pain?)JC, they are brilliant & so neat. A really great write about suffering, I don't know that I can add anything really. You have done such a good job I feel a sympathy headache coming on (kidding... I think!). I think I do need to revisit this though since I am running late now, so probably should give it more attention. Cheer Jayne Chloe, hope you are feeling better soon. xxx~ Anni ~~~ "So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it." ~Harold Acton, Memoirs of an Aesthete, 1948
Seren

Seren

16 years 11 months ago

Anni

Clever you , worked it out ... but your right if you turned the page side on it would look like waves and was meant to be like that , This is just a night like anyone would have , tried to put the waves in to give it the feel of the poem ... Love Jayne x
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orgami

16 years 11 months ago

profane beautific

i am saddened to hear your pain and can jusy write that i am thinking well thoughts to you Seren its not fluff im old enough to know mortality i burn inscence and like today dressed in shirt and tie ponytail cleaned up respect for....some spiritual element stood with rolled up pants in waves feeling feeling peaceful letting go just be in now your writing has such detail..profile in depth your comments enrich my writing acting on intelligence and good insight thank you kindly!
Seren

Seren

16 years 11 months ago

Steven ...

You honour me with your words my friend ... I am ok things arent getting to me yet , I try to stay positive everyday , and I can say with all honesty this site has given me a purpose and something to fill my hours , and for that im forever grateful that I found Neo .... I would wander in the waves with you , I am such a beach bum ... I love just being these days and everytime you say being in now ... its funny I always say that in real world I love being in now , now is all we have , to dream of earlier or later days is fruitless , drawing in the days and savouring them O~ even the cold miserable ones for even they have their own beauty , Do I write in such detail ? i dont know how I write to be honest , I am my own worst judge .. something I might think is awesome ? someone else will see the cracks in the edges lol ... but thats good im learning more and more , my mistakes help me grow , as those in life do ... thanks for the visit ... Much Love Jayne x x
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orgami

16 years 11 months ago

artifacts the worn leather coat the smokey voice of velvet

my loves passions treasures collections I used too Second hand shops personalities travellers writers sun faded authenticity scars and age lines ink and intricate life lines on warm palms I dont see just the flawed edging that time wrought like a blacksmiths mark like a potters fingerprint like a type of sand on a favoured beach i see something else a beauty that can be faked yes but the real has so so much more I want an out of round poem not a completely round one I like the creak and sway of the train coach on the bright windowed journey yes Seren you have your detail I see it read it feel it in your works and yes the cold miserable days are beautiful to write hope you are comfortable today Jayne xx Steven ~
Seren

Seren

16 years 11 months ago

Steven...

It is night here , I am comfortable not at home though but I am with friends one from here actually Bosscombat , they are kindly putting us up for a couple of nights while we attend my partners brothers funeral ... You always amaze me in your comments , and in the past from time to time , I often read your work only to go back to it the next day to comment , you deeply affect the reader in your words and sometimes your poems hit a nerve in me that i have to calm down before I gush like some fool all over your page LOL ... this is my page so if i gush and look the fool its on me .... You have inspired me with your writing since the first day I was here , I remember reading one of your poems and being so awed that I looked at my humble first poem and thought ... Noooooo..... for a day before submitting it.... But it was worth it , I am happy to toil among you shining stars and watch you blaze across my nights , dusting us with your magic , bewitching us all ... Love Jayne ... P.S its pouring rain here and its a night to write .... you inspired me again
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orgami

16 years 11 months ago

Boss a great writer too Raining its been awhile since

a memory from art class Jim Buchan a woman artist a girl then young person like myself wasnt going to take the class Helen Kent maybe?? I am mistaken her for a sister perhaps ha ha I laugh at this now or maybe the one now is the one from then curly hair a softer she was and is a good artist My god your writing stands out well on its own I sometimes dont come near saving it like a treasure to read Like a favourite magazine article at the library for a rainy day when Im calm in the night when things are quiet and dark here just the glow of the laptop the air conditioner in the kitchen window rumbling like a space ship the air chilled I like my room small facing west second floor a birch small tree outside that sings when it rains from it coming off the peaked roof the distant glow of the sodium lamp a rusted tangerine colour feel like an Earl Grey tea now must go make some thanks for writing and being such a wonderful Poetess here
Seren

Seren

16 years 11 months ago

Steven

I can see you in your room toiling over your words , As I sit in my big old chair , in front of the computer or sometimes If I am tired I lay in bed and write in my journals ... It depends what sort of mood I am in to where I write lol ... I am a weird creature I have to be in the element that suits my mood best at the paricular time I happen to be writing ... I have a big wrought Iron bed I lay in and I love sitting in my room for it has a tin roof as well ... we not long ago built that part onto the house so its still being finished I have decided to make my room which is pretty big into my santuary for writing when its finished I love Japanese styles and I love dragons have many dragons in my house including me sometimes LOL .... we got home to Bosscombats about an hour ago and we will be home tonight ... will be posting a new poem ive been working on for the last few weeks ... Much love and respect Jayne x x
B

Baz

16 years 10 months ago

Dear Jayne

You are so good at this and very prolific. You and Taylor are rapidly becoming my favorite poets. Barry
Seren

Seren

16 years 10 months ago

Dear Barry

Thank you so much that is a wonderful comment and I am humbled that you like my little scribbles ... I have writen since I was a young girl never doing anything with them LOL but now ? I write new ones but I am also starting to update older stuff and submit it ... there is a lot of different styles to my poems sometimes I rhyme sometimes I dont sometimes I write in freeform ... it really does depend on my mood and whats happening around me how I am writing ... I am a emotional writer ... but more and more there is thought and planning of my poems to have have better form ...Thank you for the read and the comment *blush* Love Jayne x x