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A Crippled Mare

9/13/2011

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Not a perfect poem but there are some lines in it that I like....

My anger broke like rocky waves
And spumed inside the gaunt tall caves,
It wandered like a ghost at noon
And howled like the northern loon,
It butted heads on rocky walls
That towered over crashing falls,
It shattered planets, sleeted rays
That scattered death through Milky Ways,
That shattered eyes, that dimmed the street,
That blew transformers, blasted wheat,
That rived through bodies, swallowed air,
That rode upon a crippled mare
To spread contagion everywhere.

My anger rode a crippled mare
To spread contagion everywhere.
I rested on a farflung shore
Where ruins lay sprawled, a doll, a door,
I howled at the moon, rust-red,
That floated like a bloody bed
Above the fir trees’ fiery spars
That pierced the eyes of ice-stabbed stars.
I slept until the mumbling sea
Sent its whispering shroud to me.

I slept until the mumbling sea
Sent its whispering shroud to me.
A ship lay wrecked upon the bar,
Where bodies lay as if afar
Upon the rigging and crow’s nest.
An echo from the sky dome pressed
Upon my bones and told its song
Beyond all right, beyond all wrong
That any mind could comprehend,
More grief than any storm could spend.

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