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The Body MAG
December 5, 2008
Is a body unconscious a person still?
No mind is present to govern its deeds.
Does a body have dreams, or a fate to fulfill?
No way to feel it when it bleeds.
Can I be a human, too?
Maybe I’m not even real.
But I am flesh, through and through?
Scratch it up, then let it heal.
Or can a monster have a mind?
An evil thing, or weeping ghost.
Are living and breathing intertwined?
A being punished for its host.
With electrical thoughts, is it ever alive?
Just a skin, an empty shell.
Is the soul really needed for the body to thrive?
A carcass washed up on the shores of hell.
© Nina G., Nashville, TN
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EmilytheBelleofA. DIAMOND said...
on Oct. 10 2014 at 1:09 pm
Wow. This has so much emotion, just so much rawness that it is rather torturing. I don't know when this was published, probably a long time ago, but congrats on having this published! :) You deserv it. You have talent and greatness in you; you're a great and wonderful and talented writer. Thank you so much, for sharing this. :)
I love the rhythm to this as well as the fact that you managed to make it rhyme and still sound good. I have nothing against free verse but I love when a poem sounds like a song. I also like the subject. Instead of the usual love/generally depressing poem, you managed to invoke deeper thought. The last two lines were amazing!
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on Feb. 5 2013 at 5:03 pm
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TheCylceGoesRound PLATINUM said...
on Jan. 30 2013 at 9:15 pm
absolutely, one hundred percent beautiful
Lobsterhead BRONZE said...
on Oct. 20 2012 at 9:30 am
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH THIS IS SO AWESOME!!!!! You're like a cross between Shakespeare and Frost! It's so eerie yet it makes you think....great job! Continue writing! I'm a fan! I look forward to seeing an "L.Neale" book at the library soon!
NotWriting_Bazinga PLATINUM said...
on Oct. 15 2012 at 11:10 am
Such tortured emotion... it makes my soul cry out to you. :') dont stop writing. chekc out my Just an Organ. i think you can relate :)
Jordan T. said...
on May. 1 2012 at 2:17 pm
Great poem, I really liked it and liked how you used stanzas and verses. I also liked when you used personification with the ghost weeping. All of this figurative language is amazing.
Quaffle3dg BRONZE said...
on Jan. 26 2012 at 8:31 am
the first thing i said after i read this poem was WOW nuff said...truely incredible
RejoiceTheySay... PLATINUM said...
on Nov. 30 2011 at 11:39 pm
wow. can i meet you? id really like to talk. ha ha
artmantist BRONZE said...
on Nov. 14 2011 at 7:56 pm
very good , i really like it
JTboiiDrama PLATINUM said...
on Oct. 13 2011 at 11:16 am
LOVE IT!!!! I heard Justin Bieber read this too. thats high up you might really get a shoot to go big
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