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When I am Dead MAG

January 21, 2009
By HannahW BRONZE, West Des Moines, Iowa
HannahW BRONZE, West Des Moines, Iowa
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When I am dead, my dearest, don’t stick my bones
together with Scotch tape. Do not try to fit them
underneath a frame. Use them, one by one,
as a weapon, a gavel. My bones,
they can be good back scratchers, honey mixers,
and hands of clocks.

You can toss them across space
and see how far they’ll glide until another hand
slips across it. When I am dead, dearest,
thread my bones to the top of a mountain.

The next time you arrive at a glass sea,
spill it boldly. Spell your life in two parts,
watch them float until they descend
like a weight down into that container.



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BudNOTBuddy said...
on Oct. 19 2010 at 4:22 pm

s'not a book.

fatmama - it's not a book


fatmama 432 said...
on Oct. 19 2010 at 1:08 pm
this is a good book

kaykaycocoa said...
on Oct. 19 2010 at 10:42 am
Interesting and creative...love it!

on Oct. 16 2010 at 4:41 pm
holly.nicole SILVER, Templeton, Massachusetts
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Favorite Quote:
"It's Only Awkward, If You Make It Awkward."

Brilliant...and beautiful!(: and it makes me think.....interesting.

on Oct. 15 2010 at 7:59 pm
AliceForever BRONZE, Someplace, Wisconsin
1 article 6 photos 36 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Sometimes it takes a crazy person to see the truth. If so, I'm a freaking lunatic."- Stephen Colbert

"YOU CAN'T STOP THIS TRAIN!" My friend and illustrator, CK

Beautiful...

on Sep. 27 2010 at 6:50 pm
alihadley14 GOLD, Glasford, Illinois
19 articles 0 photos 7 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Truth is, everyone's going to hurt you, you just have to find the ones worth suffering for." -Bob Marley
"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet." -Plato

simply majestic.

bravo.


Nikkia0425 said...
on Sep. 27 2010 at 2:07 pm
-this is a beautiful poem i really do like this!!*

on Sep. 21 2010 at 9:29 pm
Aristine BRONZE, Coppell, Texas
1 article 0 photos 16 comments

Favorite Quote:
Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy. - Scott F. Fitzgerald

This is a lovely poem you have here. The imagery is nicely done and I love the tone of the speaker. You can hears years of affection in her/his voice. I think "honey mixers" and "hands of clocks" were my favorite parts. Well done.

on Sep. 20 2010 at 8:46 am
The first sentence makes a good haiku.

on Sep. 18 2010 at 12:54 pm
Kingfan123 GOLD, Charles Town, West Virginia
17 articles 6 photos 46 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Life moves pretty fast, if you don't stop to look around once in awhile, you could miss it."
and
"I'd rather stand alone for the right reasons than stand popular for the wrong."

All I can say is that it is just so amazingly written! Great job!

on Sep. 5 2010 at 7:42 pm
taylorleigh17 SILVER, Pleasantville, Pennsylvania
6 articles 2 photos 4 comments

Favorite Quote:
If you love something set it free. If it comes back it was meant to be.

Amazingly writen

on Aug. 15 2010 at 5:50 pm
LoveTravelTell GOLD, Leftoverthere, Florida
15 articles 0 photos 16 comments

Favorite Quote:
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in my, and lead me in the way everlasting. Psalm 139:23-24.

hai, it is

Quill BRONZE said...
on Aug. 14 2010 at 8:23 pm
Quill BRONZE, Narnia, North Carolina
3 articles 0 photos 5 comments

Favorite Quote:
"I have spread my dreams at your feet,
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams." -- W.B. Yeats

Very powerful and insightful.  Good work!

gaby23 SILVER said...
on Aug. 14 2010 at 12:11 pm
gaby23 SILVER, Larkspur, California
7 articles 0 photos 15 comments

Favorite Quote:
"You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore."
~Christopher Columbus

its bold and extremely well written

on Aug. 14 2010 at 11:16 am
LoveTravelTell GOLD, Leftoverthere, Florida
15 articles 0 photos 16 comments

Favorite Quote:
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in my, and lead me in the way everlasting. Psalm 139:23-24.

there is something treasured in love, like that. a selfless view of things that don't connect with the other's feelings of loss. this poem makes me sad, but i like it.

on Aug. 14 2010 at 2:21 am
shyguymaniac22 BRONZE, Colorado Springs, Colorado
4 articles 1 photo 5 comments
Very lovely. It sounded a bit like Shel Silverstein's work.

on Aug. 14 2010 at 2:05 am
KawaiiYoruichi BRONZE, Columbia, Tennessee
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Favorite Quote:
Love Knows No Age

I love your work,Wow,it reminds me of some of the things I've written. 

on Aug. 5 2010 at 2:28 am
OstentatiousNature BRONZE, Laingsburg, Michigan
4 articles 0 photos 5 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us that than people or things we're quoting" -John Green

Gorgeous and dark! WONDERFUL!

on Jul. 27 2010 at 11:03 am
It's kinda dark and I love it! I 'd appreciate if you could look at my stuff thanks.

on Jul. 23 2010 at 11:16 pm
KICK3593 PLATINUM, Roslyn Heights, New York
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Ooh, like Bradstreet!...