Reading What I Wrote

Reading What I Wrote

Feed back about my work has been mixed lately, those that liked it read it aloud; those who didn't like it didn't. Once my poems were read aloud, those that didn't suddenly did. So, I post this advice: read my poems out loud, you might just hear something you didn't know was there...

Saturday, February 23, 2013

This Unforgiving Space

Once here, always recorded
Never can be erased
Here, a vast open
Unforgiving place
Everyone has a different view
Of what's here
And their opposing views
Cause untoward fear
The surface is only scratched
Depth is never found
So the views have their own
Sacred solid ground
While one can view
Each and every side
They never open themselves up
Nearly as wide
As this vast open unforgiving space.....


© 2012 Deanna Repose Oaks
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http://www.amazon.com/author/deannaoaks

Friday, February 15, 2013

Lost Time

I took a walk through a war scene
Crawled out of a ravine
To meet someone with images of gore
Reliving the Civil War
Through the passage of time, path upkept
Tears, it seems, are still being wept
Places, times, and paths all marked
And with time, they are all remarked
So that people like me can walk through time
Relive the past, out of the ravine climb
To find ourselves alive and well
Out of the ravine known as hell
Luckier than the 700+ dead
Who took bullets to the head
Believing that their side was right
Wanting to help end the fight
Constantly marching towards their death
Tired, hungry, completely out of breath
I can't believe these men kept moving
When their situation was not improving
I would have stopped in my track
Turned, run, high tailed it back
But the men who died that faithful day
Kept on fighting, come what may
I mourn their deaths and their deeds
And pray that history does not repeat.

© 2012 Deanna Repose Oaks
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http://www.amazon.com/author/deannaoaks

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Words....

Words, my little devils
circle in my head
Pick me, pick me
     they all scream
So I pick one
             OBNOXIOUS
only to find it's meaning
     isn't what I thought
"in the way of harm" does not equal "snob"
     the evil doubles
and the circle expands
into the vortex
cyclone
tornado
wrecking devastation a mile wide
though my world with every turn

© 2012 Deanna Repose Oaks
All Rights Reserved
http://www.amazon.com/author/deannaoaks