Who's this person
Writing personal things
I've trouble talking?
Removing personal filter
Previously block
Information release.
Typed words flows
Unconscious stream
Painful thoughts
Unspoken.
Stuttering rapids
Sentences shredded
Angry white water boils
Cuts and bruises hidden.
Confusion grows
Emotional reactions
Not understanding
How (raw[?]) lines of verse
Moves you so.
Sigh.
Helping others find
Where serenity pools
At life's cul de sac
Of inner peace.
While life is
Wild spawning salmon
Swimming upstream
Against current.
Chronic battle
With mental illness
To stop-is death.
This is me
Yet not.
Therisa © 2018
Author's note: A poem for Poets United’s midweek motif writing prompt: "a bundle of contradictions" or Anne Frank's last letter.
15 comments:
Every word here throbs with feeling. Love the 'spawning salmon' stanza.
OMG! This is my favorite poem you have ever written! I love
"Stuttering rapids
Sentences shredded
Angry white water boils"
and "removing the personal filter."
and
"While life is
Wild spawning salmon
Swimming upstream
Against current."
I get the difficulty writing, but also the water needs to flow. You voice this for so many, so many. Beautiful and true.
"This is me, yet not"!
Honest authentic, as well a tightly written. Powerful piece.
This is my all-time favourite of yours too. Wonderful! I LOVE life is wild spawning salmon. Wonderful imagery, wonderfully written. I love it!
Yes!!! this is candid and life-saving to the poet
"To stop-is death.
This is me
Yet not."
much love...
Sometimes we are sure we know who we are, and sometimes we are just as sure we know not. Thank you for your honesty in this poem.
What a wonderful poem, honest, raw, right here in this moment! I love it!xoxo
Oh my goodness!💕 This is so very beautiful! "This is me Yet not"... sigh.. yes! Poetry brings out a side of us we never knew that existed. 💕
A raw and emotional introspective poem, Therisa. There's strong imagery in the lines:
' Stuttering rapids
Sentences shredded
Angry white water boils
Cuts and bruises hidden'.
I think you have gone to a new level in this one, in creating poetry from the raw (!) material of your life.
This is me..yet not..wonderful expression of inner conflict. Esp like life's cul de sac
Of inner peace.
Swimming upstream against the current is exhausting.
Admiring the muscle of these brave words:
"While life is
Wild spawning salmon
Swimming upstream
Against current."
Where serenity pools at life's cul de sac of inner peace'
The image of serenity pooling is one that resonates with me. Swimming upstream is fighting for who you are. Beautiful, Therisa!
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