There must be a wound!
No one can be this hurt
and not bleed.
How could she injure me so?
No marks
No bruises
Worse!
People say 'My, you're looking well'
…..God help me!
She's mummified me -
ALIVE!
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Relative and Concise
Milligan has embodied two of life's most common and most essential emotions - love and humor. Anybody who has ever laughed or loved can certainly relate to Spike's words. No further explanation needed!
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funny but serious - the game of love is so dangerous! Mummified is an interesting term here...
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an excellent piece of poetry here, spike is one of my personal favourites with poetry. the madness of love, and still, we might look okay but the wounds go deep. yes
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How I Feel
From guest Kenneth Matlhole (contact)
Dam, its amazing how, much more a poem speaks to you, when your going through the emotions the poet describes, this is how I feel, put into words, amazing! -
i love this guys poems and how he lays out each stanza. though it would seem he has quite a few woman problems
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This is an exelant poem. tell what has happend to many a man
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hey that makes a lot of sense to me im always emotionally injured
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wow
really expressed
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Genius
From guest Kat (contact)
So true... so eloquently phrased... in the inimitable stylings of Spike Milligan. What a mind, what a guy! -
I know!!!
From guest Cricket!!! (contact)
I have felt this pain, No one can see or feel it but it is still there, Alive but Dead!!! What's the point of loving when you end up feeling this way. It is better to have loved and lost then never to have loved at all. Well the person who first said this had never felt what it feels like to live with a broken heart!!! -
awsome
From guest Joey (contact)
i have typed out 50 poems for i project for school and this is the best one. -
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From guest megan grant (contact)
i think that spike milligan is a funy and interesting writer and poet. i enjoy his poems because they are funny. my favorite poem is the ning nang nong because it is different and original. all of his poems are so alive and he always puts it in his own words. thats why when i read his poems i fee that i am in his world -
From guest Vanessa Mahai (contact)
Wonderful poem and you are one of my favorite poets who i look up to -
Ouch!...
Sharp and concise right from the start. "No one can be this hurt and not bleed." This must have come straight from his heart it is so...literal and physical. I like this, but only if you've 'been there done that'. Not something I would recommend for casual reading, but for a similar soul with a similar hurt...oh yeah! Definitely worth the read for them. -
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Cryptic genius
From guest freesoul40 (contact)
I have been reading spike milligan for years...he writes criptically which I love trying to decipher! This poem along with many others is one of my favourites and I always related it to my mother..being mummified alive? (though could of meant his love?) Where's the one about the cat? Spike you always made me smile -
This is great, because it is simple in a way, but like you can tell the words came from his heart and there's just so much undeniable emotion in this.
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From guest roldan (contact)
Ah to love and surrender!
There is birth, death, and surprisingly a resurrection - even if unperceivable in the second state.
... i will continue to love, nonetheless. for what are we and what is life without the saltiness of death and the immeasurable, unbearable, death-defying sweetness of love. -
this is wonderful
From guest ncanyiwe gaba (contact)
i've come across many poems that have stole my heart,but this one just breaks me into pieces.i love it.thanks for these wonderful words that you hae make accesable to me. -
I'm not sure what to think of this, it's kinda humorous at the end but the beginning does sound as if he's really desperate. It could be based on his love life?
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I have to agree with what Broken Wings Fly said. This is really great. When I first saw the length and style, I didn't expect to like it. But it was creative without using a lot of complex details. Actually, the simplicity made it great. A wonderful poem!
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WOW WOW This has been one of the best things I've read ALL week and incredible and so TIMELY...WOAH -
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wondering
how easily the poet has defined teh state of his innerself, hoe easily he tells the death of his dreams, desires and yet putting a smiling face at the exterior, and in on elile he simply said how she managed 2 injured his innerself. its short and yet intense,, conveys the feeling successfully. -
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Jadey10 - May I point out here that commenting on the poem is one thing, making comment regarding anothers thought and perceptions of a poem is quite another. Teling someone to 'shut up' because their thoughts are different to yours is not acceptable. Not all of Milligans poems are of the 'silly' variety, similar to those you have been reading in school and you have to accept that you may not have the understanding of this poem 'Feelings' at all. However I do and have stated as much.
May I suggest that you read the other comments posted for this poem and you may get some idea of the intensity of those few words.
rufina caraid
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A perfect contrast on how the outside can look when the inside is shattered into pieces.
I think of 'working on remote control' which is something we are all capable of, going through the motions but feeling as if we are locked in a time warp.
I relate to Mr Milligan's words well.
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this is a great poem and it shows great feeling in the way everything is put together.
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wow...thats great. i love it. it has so much meaning to it. great poem
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awwww thats a nice poem... theres always a lot of feeling in his poems
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Now this is poetry...
Emotion, passion, and in it's simplest forms.. honesty.
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thats a great poem.
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know how he felt
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It must be the candle burning at one end only syndrom.
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i think that its awesome because you have something different than everyone else.
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this poem makes me think it is quite sad in a way like what has she done to you great feelings and emotions all around great write
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mummifying... so harsh... it's comparing what this woman did as taking part of the person that she cannot give back... it reminds me of a first love gone bad... opening your heart letting them in, and then they leave, taking bits and pieces with them so that all that's left of you is a shell... a shell without a purpose
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My Mother had the pleasure of looking after Spike Milligan at the private nursing home she works at for the rich and famous, she said he is quite mad although obviously very talented, I tend to agree, I also have felt how he felt when he obviously wrote that sad write even with the syterical twist of dark humor at the end. Homer J Simpson
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delightfully deep and sincere...I like this..freda
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Wow, the emotion and form of this poem is captivating to say the least. Vurry nice write. The rawness brings out the meaning getting your message very clearly to see.
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Dried up on the inside, though the body - pysical self, is still very much alive and ticking despite the deadness inside - my interpretation anyway
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This poem gets kudos from the fact that it was written by Spike Milligan but nevertheless deserves its place on its own merits.
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Spike Milligan was a rare sort of man and this poem is really typical of his emotion and even humor. Shes mummified me is the kind of tragic but startling comment that he would use when writing the Goon Show for radio many years ago. Like the poem he had a tragic and often-misunderstood inner self You could laugh and cry at him simultaneously. Like the clown that would fall and make the audience laugh unaware that blood was trickling from his ear as a result of the fall a wonderful humanitarian man much loved but hurting inside like his poem Albert Gazeley
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There is a lot of feeling in this piece, it is very true that emotional wonds hurt more than surface wounds, I know, I have them, this brought back a feeling I once had, well still do actually, but it brought back how hard it was for people to see you were hurting, no one knows the true turmoil in a heart. How a hurt like this can eat away at you day after day, but still you have no symptoms, no physical signs you are ill, but you are, you are sick, internally your heart bleeds. A great piece from a great man, one who had a lot of heartache. Emotional scars never heal completely...................
From one emotional victim to another
Sanity.
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i love this poem,
it conveys in a few short lines, how internal hurts and pain are what we feel the most and can consume every last thought of the day, and yet on the outside we still look the same..people see us as the same they react to us the same, we think they should see our scars our hurt but internal ones do not show up.
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Mummified really means dried up, and I interpret "mummified...alive" to mean emotionally dried up. Through that filter, the first two parts take on a different meaning than the first glance would suggest; the guy's NOT bleeding, there are no marks or bruises: he feels nothing.
And the title, therefore, is meant to be ironic.
That's my take on it, anyhow.
But, to go beyond that, I suspect Milligan intended this to be read both ways, as a highly emotional piece, and as a claim of feeling nothing. It works on a number of levels.
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I just love Spike... and I have most of his books..
especially his poetry.. I love .. the one.. where he gives her green carnations.. and she did
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I also think this poem has a twist of humor. While it is a bit of a lament about lost love it also seems to smack of the callousness of the one who has gone and left the speaker "mummified."
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Funny
some people do not understand the word "literally".. shrug.
I think this poem is extremely funny, and is more about the blithe reactions of insensitive people to others who are suffering than it is about the pain of lost love. Dead inside but well preserved.
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Wow..the turmoil in this poem...its literally tearing at my heart. I feel it...It's amazing how such a short poem could actually cut into you like that...it is a wonderful write...Love truly hurts the most of all.
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Do not find any errors in this piece. I like the ending, it seems a bit of 'dark humor' at play. Or may be that is just something I am seeing. This is another good piece written by the author Spike Milligan.
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I like the last line...those are the most challenging wounds...
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