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Utterly Human

January 6, 2013
By EmilyM7793 PLATINUM, Waterboro, Maine
EmilyM7793 PLATINUM, Waterboro, Maine
24 articles 5 photos 16 comments

Favorite Quote:
"If you can't handle at my worst, then you sure don't deserve me at my best" ~ Marilyn Monroe


She was much too human much too often

With porcelain skin

And fountains of blood coursing beneath it

Pumped through a heart

That beat against her will


Her body was utterly human

From her frail wrists, dashed with hopelessness

To her too-big hips

Ringed with lonely nights

Her body was utterly human

But her soul was an eagle

Beating its wings against a skeleton cage


Her heart was pathetically human

Ridges and cracks broke open

And throbbed painfully

In between hellos and goodbyes

Exchanged between

Friends and lovers that were only

Utterly

Pathetically

Human


She was much too human much too often

With a soul too big for her body

As she lay in bed

With shameful, secret, human tears

Running down her cheeks

She wished to be anything

But utterly

Pathetically

Human



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on Jan. 13 2013 at 11:36 am
EmilyM7793 PLATINUM, Waterboro, Maine
24 articles 5 photos 16 comments

Favorite Quote:
"If you can't handle at my worst, then you sure don't deserve me at my best" ~ Marilyn Monroe

I really like it, I like the kind of haunting feel to it.

3dancer SILVER said...
on Jan. 9 2013 at 2:10 pm
3dancer SILVER, Windsor, Colorado
7 articles 0 photos 32 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that we never were. But without it we go nowhere!"

WOW! This is really good. I can picture everything through your descriptions! Could you give me some feedback on my poem The Sirens Song?

on Jan. 9 2013 at 1:33 pm
Killjoy_Parade GOLD, Scottsburg, Indiana
17 articles 4 photos 90 comments

Favorite Quote:
"You got killed. *explody sounds* Chuncks of s*** flying outta you." - Gerard

Amazing!!!

Skyset GOLD said...
on Jan. 8 2013 at 10:42 pm
Skyset GOLD, Goddard, Kansas
13 articles 0 photos 36 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Use what talents you possess. The Woods would be very quiet if no birds sang there except those that sang best."
--Henry Van Dyke

That was a very good poem! Job well done, your word choice is excellent. It has an almost dream feel, or maybe that's just me?

D.610 SILVER said...
on Jan. 8 2013 at 11:17 am
D.610 SILVER, Seymour, Missouri
6 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
“All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.”
― Plutarch

I love this poem..it's sad and dark but wonderful.