Showing posts with label surrender. Show all posts
Showing posts with label surrender. Show all posts

Sunday, February 27, 2011

vocabulary words...




it takes a lot of reading
repeating before reaching
surrender -
sleepless nights sweating in denial.  denial
not a word we care often to visit, a poignant
reminder we're drowning well
in it...

going down ..
         once...

and ego
now there is an Oscar
winning role, (inflated, elated, self-control)
pride ..p follows e, but not forget
manipulation...rearrangement
if we hurry no one
will see...a quick cover

the real me....going down
          x's two

missed a few
moments, few meetings a
few morning kisses
...missing in action
reaction not good...  forgiveness gets if-y, if-ier
self falls, crawls (not good) -
ego blown...torment that word begins....denial denied,
pride spelt without p - manipulate
- to late and we

going down - for
           .. third time --know
                   that ones the killer

 unless we expand our
                 vocabulary to include (S) word
                            Surrender....

bkmackenzie
copyrighted 2011

Posted for One Shot Wednesday at One Stop Poetry: Where Poets, Writers and Artists Meet

Saturday, September 25, 2010

Surface-less Dove..


times internal
at times external
unqualified at peace negotiation,
surrender squandered beneath an unmade bed;
plucked barren
seeing freedom only as needed -
wrap her in chaste white feather,
one blue eye
allow her fly, fly ...command it, damn-it




with hope springs promise
possibilities branch,
a returned symbol, humane,  hu -man, persecution
placated; grounding tears, flood dammed... damn it fly
surface-less dove.. fly......
grant truce, trust - land it, stamp it...damn it
absorb this blood...let it walk straight.
renewed again...unified, qualified
fly...dove...
fly..

bkmackenzie
copyrighted 2010