BlueIris
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Tue Aug-04-09 06:05 AM
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The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poetry Break, 8/4/09 |
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"Mars in the First House"
What does it mean to be born in war? Not a war somewhere else, somewhere strange, but a war right here at home with fighter planes falling from the sky into the farmland you will walk on Sundays. What does it mean to be born in a war that hurls glass from your windows and seizes your bed with its fists while in the street outside, excrement seeps from ruptured sewers and live wires touch ground recoiling like your mother's stomach where you are still a curled snail? Do you shudder in there when muffled thuds drift through amniotic fluid? Do your mother's muscle spasms grip you as doodlebugs fall silent overhead?
It so happens that you grow to hate the men who make war and all your life you seek silence as some people seek themselves. You know that it could easily have happened otherwise but fear is a faceless old friend. Without it you sit still too long wondering who you are.
~Judith Barrington
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Tue Aug-04-09 08:15 AM
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1. an Aries baby grows up and ponders |
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the why of it all. Nice. thanks.
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Tue Aug-04-09 08:34 AM
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2. I have a weak spot for astrology-themed poems. |
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And this one fits in nicely with my theme for the week.
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Tue Aug-04-09 08:35 AM
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I can relate to the stars :)
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Tue Aug-04-09 10:56 AM
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I like this one a lot...
What it must be like to grow up, and live, in a time of relentless war...
This line especially speaks to me:
but fear is a faceless old friend. Without it you sit still too long wondering who you are.
Thank you!
:hi:
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Tue Aug-04-09 11:25 AM
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Those last lines are killer.
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