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When Seeing a Heart, What Do You See?

July 19, 2013
By Katherine Kim BRONZE, Mount Kisco, New York
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When seeing a heart, what do you see?
The carnation pink slopes
embellished with glitter
laced with trite expressions of love
on that Hallmark card you received last Valentine’s Day

Or maybe a cavernous void
littered with shards,
remnants of shattered memories
sticky with the translucent residue of glue,
But with razor edges sharp enough to draw
blood

Crimson blood that flows
Twisting, winding, navigating
through tunnels and canals
Feeding, reviving, igniting
all eleven ounces of a
thudding, thumping, beating

Human heart

© Elaine S., Phoenix, AZ

The author's comments:
This is actually one of the first poems I've written. I wrote it for a creative writing program recently, and I received positive feedback, so I decided to share my work. I feel like often the heart in poetry can seem over-used or cliche, so I hope my poem is different, refreshing.
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