"Mary Had A Little Lamb..."

a different "LOOK" and way... separate, parallel, AND across... so many ways for tears to fall.

"Mary had a little Lamb..."

...an 'uncle' had shepard's pie for dinner...
he ate seconds.

Anger                                 ...and tears
and hurt -                           leak
flow without thought          from eyes
as memories...                    just because
when its all you have          its all you have
                         sometimes.

Chris

Author's Note

a different "LOOK" and way... separate, parallel, AND across...
so many ways for tears to fall.

Reviews

[Tina]

A grim side to farm life. so sad.

[Christy Sargent]

Just last evening my neighbor lady told me a story about when she was young and newly married into a farming family. She was presented with a baby calf that was black and white and darling. she raised the calf and babied it until her husband told her "Spotty" was about ready for butchering. She freaked out and told her husband she didn't want to know anything more about it. Then one day "Spotty" was gone. She got a call from her father-in-law that it only took one bullet and that it was clean. Then he informed her that he needed for her to go fetch the beef that was her baby from the butcher's and take it home. Now that is a sad story. I don't know how I could have swallowed even one bite of Spotty....tears falling. I like what you did.
Christy

[Lilly Negoi]

"separate, parallel, AND across..."and sometimes together...

[turning violet]

me likey

[EMF]

Chuff me this is good. It works on so many different levels, depending upon how you read it and your mood at any given time. A wonderfully crafted piece that allows the readers persona to read in as much as they want.

[sushi]

WoW!!!!! Its truly a magic square....

[Kenneth The Poet]

This can be read in different ways, but the meaning is still the same. Like a magic square.

By the way, I like Shepard's pie.

[Robbie~xoxo~]

So original! I am at awe with your view of writing.

[ShameemAkhtar]

I am stunned. If this is not easy to read, I can obly imagine what it would have been writing this.

For once, this is not a poem I want to review Chris, but it is a poem on this I want to read your own review... Seriously...

This is so fascinating.

[Odile RAZAFIMANDIMBY]

It's originally said and well said Chris !