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Another cloudy day,
Time running out
It’s all in your mind,
Memory barricaded.
In a Vincent van Gogh snow globe,
The past hunts the future and shakes the present
(Drifting like a snowflake)
In the swirly wind of a glass coffin.

“Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me…”
I need time to crystallize my mistakes
We all need time for letting go,
Time for the clouds to clear away
Some of the dust
In the non-physical part of the heart.
This time is where the end begins
Cold air bites into glass,
Rain splits shadows.
Time lets the sea grow
It can’t be time to go yet?
But that’s how we grow up.

Kitchen blues, living room tantrums and bedroom tears
Spun around by time. Keeping yourself to yourself looking away this time.
Winter slides down the windows of eccentric family reunions,
Spring seeps in through the cracks of ghostly photos.

Frosted glasses fill up like eyes
Cluttered minds melt into the sea.
Capsized boats on haunted mantelpieces
Sink into the heart of the truth.

“Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me…”
Searching for someone else like yourself
Every one of us in someone’s book,
Another you from another time turns the page.
Seeing ourselves in every Franny and Zooey;
Annie and Carl, and Sam and Charlie

Bookworms holding onto scrambled pages.
Stories dripping off the page,
Characters pulled out of one story into other stories.
Despite all the hardships,
How many people have read these stories before?
(And seen the beauty in life and felt like the people in a book before?)
Love endures a bookmark slips like a halo,
Misplaced parts in the same old story
A heart with a spine and pages glued to the sky.
Love tears the pages out,
My love for you stops your tears
And rewrites the ending.
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Heavily inspired by my love for books
especially Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger,
Joy in the Morning by Betty Smith and
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky.
And this is especially for anyone who has ever pictured
themselves as a character in a book they have read.
:reading::love:

Preview image from here: [link] by a artist called Megan

It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.
</blockquote> "The Perks of Being a Wallflower"
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I am not known for my language skills but I'll have a go at this. I particularly like the symbolic word play. It has a kind of edgy feeling like Sylvia Plath was famous for. The snow globe analogy was particularly creative. You fill a lot of your work with references to time. You like to blend past and present. This is a very effective device that carries a message we all can relate to. I must admit there are literary references here I do not understand but I think I understand the principles behind escaping into a place and time as another person.
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~Pandoras-Emptiness Sep 1, 2009  Hobbyist Writer
wow! beautiful and deep! so true, so true!
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~DrowningByWords Sep 3, 2009  Professional Writer
thanks that means a lot to me =)
:glomp::hug:
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~creme-brulee Apr 30, 2009  Professional Writer
this deviation was in my inbox right next to this one: [link] which goes so lovely with the first two stanzas of your poem...
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~creme-brulee Apr 30, 2009  Professional Writer
i typed the link wrong. here it is again: [link]
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:iconsanctria:
It's nice, and it's real... I don't know how many times i've done the comparison of my life or a certain day with an event from a book... I really liked the idea of mixing different characters to portrait the feeling of the day...
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~DrowningByWords Apr 23, 2009  Professional Writer
thanks it means a lot to me :hug:
i'm glad you liked and could relate
to the ideas and feelings of it :hug:
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:iconsanctria:
you're welcome Russ!
It was a pleasure to read it :glomp:
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:worship:This is amazing!!
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Mood: Joy ~DrowningByWords Apr 18, 2009  Professional Writer
thanks sandy it means a lot to me =)
especially as its my first poem in a while
been busy lately and also trying my
hand at writing a novel and running
a book club so I am very glad you enjoyed it :hug:
:heart:
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:)You're very welcome!!:hug::heart:So sorry about the late reply Russ,I may get caught up one of these days!!I love your POETRY!!
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