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Alone

December 16, 2009
By Doomcarrot GOLD, Angola, Indiana
Doomcarrot GOLD, Angola, Indiana
17 articles 1 photo 3 comments

Favorite Quote:
"There is no light but the light in your eyes/ There is no light, no light in these skies/ There is no sound but of how I cry/ There is no sound, no sound in this night..."


The long grass bristles
Chuckling as the breeze
Tickles over it
The old, old tree
Is a sentry
Watching over the long grass
Watching the old dirt road
Watching the dilapidated house
This house is a broken home
And she sits all alone
The girl sits all alone
In the broken home
With the door open
Staring at the drive
At the place where he
Left her
So alone
At the rusty old pickup truck
(Hers) that ran so loud
Thunk kathunk thump
Chipped blue paint peeling in the weather
Here she is not alone
There’s someone else here
To break this already broken girl

The grass whispers
Murder, murder
The old tree a silent sentry
For a sinner
But the sinner’s long gone, long gone
The girl’s blood dissolves so slowly
Into the ground
And the tree’s long
Willow branches
Comfort the soil
Comfort the grass
Comfort the solitary black rose
That grows, thornless,
From the broken grave of a pale broken girl
And the grass whispers
Murder, murder



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on May. 28 2010 at 9:54 am
Doomcarrot GOLD, Angola, Indiana
17 articles 1 photo 3 comments

Favorite Quote:
"There is no light but the light in your eyes/ There is no light, no light in these skies/ There is no sound but of how I cry/ There is no sound, no sound in this night..."

Thanks so much! This poem actually won a Gold Key... :)

on Feb. 23 2010 at 6:44 pm
chocolateharp SILVER, Plaistow, New Hampshire
8 articles 0 photos 21 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost." - Betty Smith (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)

Wow, this poem gave me chills!! The repetition was especially effective (and quite creepy- in a good way, of course!).