The old man coughs every morning
as if he would spit up his life
whose sputum clings to his lungs.
The dog whines, rattling her chain,
not comprehending her crime
when her occupation is to love.
The baby cries in his crib,
but can tell nobody the reason,
since grief requires no credentials.
The woman stripped from her dreams
shudders at loneliness each day
laid out for her like a dress.
The wind chimes waken to music
as if such sorrows nowhere existed,
but wind has always been callous.
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Wow... this is really good. I like it because for some it is the truth of everyday life. Though I resist this type of life everyday, it seems to sneak up on me and I become... bitter. The taste lingers even now apon my tounge. Even so, nice job on the poem. And hope you write more pieces like this! Great job.
Vasser Miller, this poet died in 1998 - however there are many more of her poems here and more are being located to add here so please check back soon. ~Von Oldpoetry -
Wow
ok, so this poem is in short, CRAZY GOOD. to put it in a way that is incredibly shallow. I like this a lot.
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This is just so sad.
What a sad poem, verse one sickness and old age, verse two distress and a bleak existence for the animal, the baby cries no one to comfort it, the woman no hope a bleak existance, the wind chime although proffessing a tempory glimmer of hope but is completely oblivious to what is happening as the, and the wind has always been callous, as I think of the wind when the natural forces have caused untimely destruction and death.
This poem porteays total despairation with no futere, no hope, and no promise of better things to come. The writer has written from a thoroughly deapairing heart that sees total despair and no answers to the problems.
In the Bible it offers a hope and a cure for verse one, it tells us at:
Job 33:25 "Let his flesh become fresher than in youth; Let him return to the days of his youthful vigor."
Isaiah 33:24 "and no resident will say I am sick"
Verse Two
Isaiah 11:6-9
With the kid the leopard itself will lie down, and the callf and the maned young lion and the well fed animal altogether; and a mere little boy will be leader over them. . . And even the lion will eat straw just like the bull. And the suckling child will certainly play on the hole of a cobra.
Verse Three
Isaiah 49:15, 16 Can a wife forget her sucklings so that she shold not pity the son of her belly? Even these women can forget, yet I myself shall not forget you. Look upon my palms I have engraved you.
Verse Four
Jeremiah 29:11, For I myself well know the thoughts I am thinking towards YOU. Thoughts of peace and not of calamity to give you a future and a hope.
Verse Five
Revelation 21:4,5, "And he (God) will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning, nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away."
And the One seated on the throne {God} said: "Look! I am making all things new." Also he says "Write for these words are faithfull and true."
A well written poem by the author describing the sad situation that the world is in today.
Now complimented from scriptures from the Bible to give mankind a Future and a hope.
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