Well well well, I’ve finally buckled down and began the next volume of The Poetry Corner. I do hope that you have not been waiting too long. If you have been keeping up on the blog you’ll know that my recent and least most demanding method of updating and posting is now no longer available to me and so I’ve been struggling with distraction and life. I have prevailed and now bring you another installment of poets and poetry for your enjoyment. So, with no further delay…
We all have a special worth and desire someone to come into our lives and validate our own value and importance in this ever changing and shifting world. The poem is short, carrying a longing that all of us have, however deep we may have buried it. In simple words, with plain desire, Miss Demure Restraint calls out for her Junk Man to come and take her away.
Going back more than a year into the archives of the wonderful and amazing Oracle of the Pearl we find a real pearl of poetry and emotion. In five stanzas that could be their own poem, Pearl walks you through her Everything and bares a little piece of her soul upon the electronic pages of life. Everything I Am is an epic journey of truth and discovery that left me wishing I could give back the pieces of her that were taken.
With excellent alliteration, the poet and the thief delivers a short poem, seven lines of rebuke to anyone who would think that intellect is an adequate substitution for attractiveness. Then, with tongue in cheek, and I imagine with no less sarcasm, titles the poem, A bunch of baloney. It seems to me, this poem is a deep, and while comedic, also painful comment on the importance of intelligence and the superficiality of appearances.
Sara Fryd really does paint with words, and here we find a palette of emotion, in all the gritty darkness of sorrow, stretched across the skein of life. She writes for her mother’s voice, silenced by tragedy and guilt, to pay homage to effect we have on those we leave behind. Mother’s Guilt is so powerful a poem that my mere words could never do it justice.
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