wild & broken

Now includes an evoca: http://soundcloud.com/kara-krantz/wild-broken

You seem to have misplaced my memory.

Absently tucking me between layers of moss,
you watch as the moisture saturates me.
I am a sponge, soaking up your sighs, pregnant with your always-temporary presence.

You misplace your intentions. One moment fully pulsating with possibility,
the next sobbing upon my lap. Hands reaching over, pulling my hair, grasping the seat-belt
as tears fall upon my dress.

Who are you, my wild broken boy? I curl my fingers through your hair
and feel nothing. You have taken all I had to give. 
You have emptied me. I have been ravaged.
I am broken by your promises and numb to your eyes, shining with dew.

Why do you stare, so guileless and strong, and promise me the world?
You are as transient as the salty sea; I taste you on my lips
but you are soon washed away with the softest of kisses, an absent-minded touch. You are gone.

You seem to have misplaced me.

Traveling deep into the wilderness,
I can no longer seek you.
I can no longer wait for you.

You have misplaced all these memories, broken all the beauty.
You have ravaged my heart.

I seek you in the quiet moments, but my wild broken boy
you are gone. 

 

Reviews

[Philip Muls]

The poem sounds authentic, based upon real happenings...?

Broken boy...is that someone who you helped ? It makes me sad...as if that person stood on your shoulders and then flew off...I can no longer wait for you, sounds disillusioned...

Well done!

I'd appreciate it if you could read mine. Take care.

[Patrick Henry]

I feel guilty that my own mind has endured such loss of freedom to understand and make sense the pain and confusion that others have shared with me in my own past. Meeting on a similar path, there was no certain rules to keep the train from derailing, and surely there was no real way of foreseeing what could make true all our fears. We would, I assume, not wish to see such things, and possibly in its ends..... still not except it as the "natural course"...... as if it could have been steered or persuaded to reach all temporary goals, conveniently without trouble!! Beautiful poem. Anytime a poem works itself between parallels of nature and human personification to relate a piece...... when it's done well, it's amazing. This is an amazing piece!! I LOVE it...... You didn't overwork the words used, and they compliment each other with the responsibility of connecting to the reader and telling a story that finds us practicing ways to see into our own hearts. Those last two lines are devastating!! Those last two lines would be incredibly much harder to hear than an actual "break-up" argument filled with excuses and explanations. I'm listening to Ludovico Einaudi play "Nuvole Bianche", and I think it played very well with reading this poem!! Beautiful Kara Emily Krantz. xoxo -Mark

[Kara Emily Krantz]

I never said thank you for this awesome review! :) Your thoughtful words were SO appreciated.

[Patrick Henry]

Are you on Facebook? I know you are from around here and it would be nice to have someone to talk to about poetry or share on THERE, so I DON'T give up on my writing...... : ) xoxo -Your Mark

[Kara Emily Krantz]

yep!! Just search "Kara Emily Krantz" and I should come up as Kara Emily.

[Patrick Henry]

Beautiful page!! I LOOOOVE this!! ; ) ..."I have an overwhelming desire lately to tell everyone I talk to that I love them. ... This could lend itself to some awkward situations." ....That happens a lot with me and the thought, the days, the situations never change how I feel about that!! lol I never thought it to be easily understood...... xoxo -Your Mark

[Kara Emily Krantz]

Hahhaha! :) Awesome.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

another classic, "i regret last night but at the same time, don't" poem

i really love the first line..."you seem to have misplaced my memory"

you affect me that much...

these writes of yours are stirring something...i feel my pen breathing hard, ready to kiss the page.

jacob

[An owl on the moon]

Such agony here... that haunting loneliness of absence... of missing a piece of you... Just made me ache... your words so descriptively cover the canvas in emotion.

[Marc Mccune]

Kara, so very excellent. as always, you put together words and phrases in a new and creative way. There are never any writing cliches in your work. The ideas and thoughts come through clearly in this poem. I would not change a thing

[Kara Emily Krantz]

Marc, how I appreciate your thoughts! Especially the part about cliche... one thing I avoid like the plague, but sometimes it's a challenge! lol :)