I am not an Animal
Edit…thanks also to all those who I see have viewed and read this poem. Cheers. Nice to have visiters ,)
A poem that just evolved today – the way poetry sometimes does. Somehow intuitively, somehow from somewhere that must belong to me. Bits of me.
It uses words and combinations of words that have come together over months I think, and which I’ve saved (as bits), and then constructed / reconstructed and grown. This poem has become an open interpretation of what stops, what gets in the way and what, maybe, should never have been.
This is also a distraction from study :)
Peace.
I am not an Animal belongs to the following groups:
All Things Poetic, Artistic, PhilosophicalI just love the way she stares me down
Like she wants
My blood
Thick
On toast
Like a black ink
Tattoo
Piercing, scarred and varicose dense
She pants
Yet in my violation
Isolation
Shame
I can smell the finish line
Meat
My sweet
You found it
Tucked away as it was
In the spare room
In that slash and burn
Maelstrom
Roasting
Crackling
Your mouth
Lemon flavoured hail
Tea stained
Tortured itself
Brooding
Over some cryptic
Caustic
Secret
I’m so sorry
Lisa Jewell
Intense and brilliant….
The pain of realisation – the pain of acceptance…
Robert Knapman
Cheers LisaG. It came from deep space but arrived, finally, in one piece .) Thanks.
LostBoy1
You are an animal…
Your other two choices are mineral or vegetable.
C.C. Arshagra
I find this poem so expensive, on its knees, and sorry indeed! ...but for what? ...who? Wow! Peace.
Robert Knapman
Then I choose to be a vegetable my friend. They have feelings you know.
What a cool word ‘expensive’ – in this context. I might keep that in mind for future reference if that’s ok. Thanks. Ahhhh….
bodymechanic
i got into this one rob,nice one
marieancolie
Yes, Brilliant Robert…
don’t give up in writing prose or poems.
marie xx
SNik
feels like a jig-saw where all the peices got together cosily. nice poerty.
MissKristy
Jesus christ…that has done my head in..
For me, there is nothing more therapeutic than this kind of writing/reading…thanks for sharing this.
magicman
nice pacing and intonation Robert
Robert Knapman
Thanks y’all. It comes in bursts and I’m pretty content with the last burst. Easier to breath now…Peace ;)
MuscularTeeth
well wrotten
:)
langstonmartine
yes
i like the tone and cadence
i feel like i can hear the voice you gave this one
Cadence Gamache
Very raw, very intense… Very vivid. ‘I can smell the finish line’ is brilliant, in my opinion.
Suzanne German
oooh you can smell that flesh crackling and roasting…what on earth am i saying? lol….your words got me carried away…I think I must be hungry! Perhaps this is about a pet finding her roast dinner :)))
hilarydougill
Very moving. Very well written
Jen Whyte
Intense and powerful words