All the per visions of the soul
I wrote in a small poem.
How to do harm to women
& be harmed by women;
how to love;
how to be out of love.
Always attracted to their tragedies,
real or imagined,
their bitterness over giving up
their bodies to men,
their one-time first time,
their wanting to call it back with regrets.
Always listening to their unmets,
their music with no words, no rhyme,
their unwritten histories--women
always quail, rising up,
not aware they would be gunned
down above the weeds. Tragedies
always about lovely things, love,
men who know the flights of birds, love,
the end of beauty & attachments to men.
It was a small poem,
written for all the per visions of the soul.
Please tell me what you think
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When I walk the marsh sometimes I run into bob whites. And they scare the piss out of me when the flutter up like they do.
When I first joined AP, I was amazed at how the male poets were attracted to the most damselsy in distress poems. I am very bad at the "game" and didn't know really that that was actually true in life as well. It appeals, I suppose to the "hero" side of Everyman.
So that statement in stanza 2 made me smile. I wish I could be a damsel in distress sometimes, however, it is not my nature. But it does attract attention doesn't it?
Last stanza my favorite, all those loves and lovely's.
I liked perversions better. It seemed real-er. than per visions.
Old 70 is there. It always is. Cause you wrote it, Old 70 is there, singing along somewhere off in the distance. I can hear it.
Lisa
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The last stanza--your favorite--is an inversion of the first. Glad it works for you...
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It is true as you point out, that damsels in distress make for much writing. In this poem, the damsels are safe, hidden, but rise up to place themselve in distress.
I liked pervisions ( even as a concocted word ) but I don't mind the grammatical two words at all. So I suppose you might say: I am easy...
& Old Seventy is always flowing thru the KY landscape & thru my words...
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Ladies like dis one. all teary dey gets readin. Me I miss old seventy and the critters. But I like this one just fine, tho the ladies will likes it better being as they know mostly who they are and we just go around guessing all the time.
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I just went to preview your book. Glad I did. I will order one.
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It is good to know that someone misses old seventy & the critters, lute. Thanks & keep on guessing like I will...
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I liked the contradiction here between the title and the content of this poem...actually not such a "small poem" this is. Somehow it made me smile ... such a view into the soul of women (and men) this poem allows. I too could relate to this. I guess in the end men and women aren't that different when it comes to things of the soul - and poetry (maybe just in the expression...)? A beautiful and very thought-provoking poem.
~ Nicolette
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There are too many visions that poets see others overlook. Thanks for smiling when you read this...
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Ah, yes, the core of this poem is something I can relate to. You have done a beautiful job of expressing this.
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Thanks, Zayra
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pervisions ??? tell me this word?
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Thanks, Patrice...
pervisions should=per visions...
I will correct the two errors...
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