Planting Bitter Crops


from the ABC set Poetry & Song Lyrics

I descend
Under condescension
Broken-eyed
And watering a storm
You defend
An untenable position
Sowing bitterness
Like seeded corn

I decline
A callous invitation
Into arguments
You’ve angrily drawn
Instead suggesting
Self-copulation
If you could find
A bone to be worn

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Comments

Ewan | June 16, 2008 - 08:27

Hmmm... angry stuff.. prefer the imagery of the first stanza to the more prosaic (?) second.

'Broken-eyed
And watering a storm'

&

'Sowing bitterness
Like seeded corn'

I found very appealing indeed.

You might want to change this to come up as a poem rather than a story, I know a few people who only read poetry on this site, so it makes a difference if you press the wrong button. It would be a shame to miss a comment for a mis-categorization, hey?

Regards Ewan

Dynamaso | June 16, 2008 - 10:42

Ewan, thanks very much for your comments. The 'broken-eyed' line is my favourite of this poem.

Thanks also for letting me know I'd mis-categorized. It must have been a slip of the mouse.

jennifer | June 17, 2008 - 10:38

Naughty mouse!

Ditto what Ewan has said in a far more eloquent manner than I would have done!

Dynamaso | June 18, 2008 - 00:13

Thanks Jen. Sometimes the little fella has a mind of its own.