Comments | mirandasowell: beyond skin deep

mirandasowell

beyond skin deep

Jul 20, 2005 11:20

underneath contours edge
beyond sight.
eyes caress seasoned bark.
does the line define?
the skirt of my mind
secretion from derma
evidence of life
vulnerability oozing.
second skin as shield
a patch
bandage
blockade
mask.
not a wounded victim.
just raw to you.
wounds heal
skin covers
and you dont know me again
until you penetrate beyond skin deep

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by the way...nice icon usage venusiavix July 21 2005, 04:37:36 UTC

holy balls, that was good. the contrast between soft, warm, hot, smooth imagery and hard, cold, sharp, cutting words is definately what made it raw enough for me to wince upon first reading. and that's my favorite thing about good poetry...it's the stuff that you have to read again because the surface tension is so thick with images pouncing from words that it's not until the second read, after you've felt the tone and texture, that you can actually delve deeper into the context and pull out the insides to speculate on what it means to you ( ... )

Re: by the way...nice icon usage mirandasowell July 21 2005, 14:28:50 UTC

wow! i didnt think anyone could or would try to make sense of that. I posted it on my myspace blog as well and no response...I even have like 50 friends on that thing but no one ever responds to writings. I did know that if anyone could see, it would be you. I guess I am pulling out my "hardness", if you will. I guess I have been afraid of being too vunerable to others. Eventhough, that is what I am by not trying to be so. My whole life I try to cover up my vunerability and try to pretend I'm hard, but I'm both. So, I think what I didnt even see in this is what you said about my scorpion side. I never really notice when she is coming out. I DO tend to see the Sagitarrius in me more & I am not sure why that is. The hardest part of being a "cuspy" is trying to balance the both. It is hard enough as it is to keep everything (polarities) in your life in harmony to stay healthy, but to balance my 2 personalties...well, drives me insane sometimes ( ... )

ladyhyacinth July 21 2005, 08:08:50 UTC

I dont' know what to say.

This is the third time Ive read this and its just.. words really fail me.. its just amazingly good.. Its indescribable to me right now.

mirandasowell July 21 2005, 14:31:23 UTC

you have know idea how much that means to know that someone read me more than once. That is what it is about... trying to pull back the layers to discover what I actually am/mean...beyond the first read.