inside voice

thoughts gather under the shelter

inside voice

I started
listening
to my
inside voice

the day
I kissed you

the day
I took you

inside
the softest
parts
of me.

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poisoned apple pie

what heart aches
must one suffer
to mistrust
the simplest of
gestures;
making love
and apple pie.

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blame

she wants it to be her
because that is all
she knows.

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corrugated sympathies

she crafts a makeshift shelter
out of corrugated sympathies
bound together with
love's forgotten memories,
shivering under
newspaper blankets
damp with frozen tears.

Author's Note

Reviews

[John Alexander McFadyen]

All of these have emotion and make the reader think and feel. I especially like corrugated sympathies.

[Lyn Anderson]

Thank you so much.

[Delmar Cooper]

These pastiches of seemingly tossed out thoughts are your best work.

[Lyn Anderson]

Picture me, with a doodle pad, randomly scribbling different poems between the doodles. That's how I have always composed, and then taken them apart. I finally decided to keep them together, and they worked well, thank you.

[Jan Drei]

The Inside voice explained it all.

[Lyn Anderson]

Thank you I appreciate it.

[Jan Drei]

I cannot deny the wit.

[Lyn Anderson]

Seems to be my trademark. Thanks.

[Maglia Weaver Twill]

that is very moroseful...what a terrible in the day and life of this person

[Lyn Anderson]

Sometimes morose gets the point across, doesn't it? Thank you I appreciate it.

[NoelHC]

You know I really like these snippets, collected into a related theme. Each one stands on it own, and like bundling sticks, become stronger when united. The last verse is powerful in its stark image.
Well done, as usual, my friend.

[Lyn Anderson]

Thank you. I really like this one. And I know it's not cowboy music, but this song is great.

[NoelHC]

It sounds a bit like Nickleback or Creed, it doesn't have to always be cowboy music. Just most of the time is adequate. ; )

[Lyn Anderson]

Pop Evil is usually closer to Marilyn Manson. But they went soft on this one.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

"mistrusting making love and apple pie"

now that's as American as it gets...

i also like "i took you inside the softest parts of me"

those lines especially but like all of these short pieces.

[Lyn Anderson]

Thank you I am really partial to this one. I think Rene is right that I need to compile these pieces into an anthology. I can't believe it took coming to Writer's Cafe' to keep my collected thoughts together when I always wrote them this way and then pulled them apart.