Protected: Big Tent Poetry – Tender Mercy #20

Posted by Mark on July 1, 2010 in Big Tent Poetry, Drafts, Poetry, Tender Mercy | Short Link

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  • http://www.facebook.com/cynthiashort Cynthia Short

    This is a good use of the prompt…very sad and a situation I think many of us will recognize – I do…
    The idea of your important words falling on deaf ears and the feeling that if only they could listen, things would be better…good work here.

  • http://intensedebate.com/profiles/derrick2 derrick2

    A haunting quality to this, Mark. How often we can find ourselves in a similar situation, knowing the circumstances but unable to affect them. How true your line is "But the outcome is always and/never the same".

  • pamela

    Mark
    Haunting and poignant poem
    I can relate to these words on so many levels
    Pamela

  • http://intensedebate.com/profiles/1sojournal 1sojournal

    Especially like the grocery bag of comments, so easy to come by those words on shelves one can throw in the cart and just move on. But, all too often we get stuck in that black fade. Good write, Mark. I'm in GB and although leaving here for a while did alter my taste buds, I might be amenable to an Ameretto and orange juice, if I'm here and not gone fishing, lol.

    Elizabeth

  • http://twitchingline.blogspot.com twitches

    I particularly liked the grocery bags line as well – such a unique use of a familiar image.

  • http://intensedebate.com/profiles/vivinfrance vivinfrance

    Tears are pouring down my face as I write this: I've spent the morning trying, and failing abysmally to write a poem for my best friend, who died last night. Your poem is a marvellous example of what I should have been writing and couldn't.

  • http://bozone-bw.blogspot.com/ brenda w

    This is beautiful Mark. You painted a portrait of darkness that is common to human experience. Go poet, go poet! Excellent well written piece.

  • http://stoneymoss.org Deb

    "always and/ never" is a powerful abstract … works well with the hands and the grocery bags. Like that the title is numbered, as if to emphasize how many times this has happened.

  • http://in-the-stream.blogspot.com Francis Scudellari

    I really like the way you cast the mind as a stage upon which the narrator replays this one scene. "Always and never the same" encapsulates it so perfectly.

  • Marsha

    Achingly heartfelt. Beautiful.

    • Mark

      Thanks, Marsha.

  • http://coyotemercury.com/blog1 James

    This is really beautiful. Those grocery bags are such a great image to have here as it reinforces the every day occurrence aspect of this.

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