This Poem was Submitted By: Mark Steven Scheffer On Date: 2016-06-24 14:51:55 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Skull

Patti Schultz had jet-black hair (the conventional says like a raven) and moved with a delicate air to buoy the weak and the craven You must find your voice like Patti had to find something strong that didn't need her that gave more than it took Patti was weak, and craven her ebony on marble was a trampoline for poets and sailors But Jesus knew who would inherit the earth and Patti would have to flake away like the Pieta in a sandstorm, and she did Her coal black hair like a raven’s retreated from the curve of her marble shoulder and her flat earth torso rounded into a globe And the globe went flat again to squeeze through the keyhole of where it doesn't' matter And now a poet thinks of her, though the sailors don't There, where now her wind moves with the sandstorm where voices are plenty Where she is held like eternity’s bowling ball Where everyone is bald, even Patti.

Copyright © June 2016 Mark Steven Scheffer


This Poem was Critiqued By: Joe Gustin On Date: 2016-06-28 10:27:00
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 9.66667
Brilliant imaginary as always, "trampoline for poets", "flat earth torso". I have read this piece several times and I take it to be about youth, ageing and dying. I have of course been wrong before.


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