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Staccato Heart

Sometimes I think you can hear The raging tide in my chest Sending waves to my throat. Do you see them crest at my wrist? Plunge, recede, and plunge again - Your undertow has sucked me in. Like skipping stones over water, My staccato heart is lost at sea. No metronome can tame it. No borrowed breath can save it.

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Andrea Dietrich

Date: 7/4/2013 9:17:00 AM

so glad you liked my Sun/Sea poem.let me see if I can find a new poem of yours on this back page. It's amazing you have only started writing as of recently. I probably asked you before, but how old are you? And what kind of prose were you writing all your life?

Painted Hunter

Date: 4/12/2013 6:07:00 AM

And yes, I am going to enter your contest for sure. I wrote one for it yesterday while down at the river...hey, it's the closest thing I've got to an ocean.

Painted Hunter

Date: 4/12/2013 6:04:00 AM

I see this one was a featured poem. Loved every line, but that ending is......da bomb digity. 'no borrowed breath can save it' ....hmmm, I will just have to steal that line...hehe..joking.

Jack Jordan

Date: 3/30/2013 10:43:00 PM

Congratulations on having a featured poem. Jack

Poet Destroyer A

Date: 3/30/2013 4:26:00 PM

Heather, this endures a good flowing verse, enjoyed your poem. Many Blessings with your Featured Poem of the week. By the way no matter my blue color or tune I am always here, spreading the colorful cheer.....Happy Easter!" xox~ LINDA

Ngoc Nguyen

Date: 3/25/2013 3:24:00 PM

Nice! Says much in few words--brilliance in a capsule. Congrats! Ngoc.

Vince Suzadail Jr.

Date: 3/25/2013 10:41:00 AM

Congrats Heather on "Staccato Heart" being featured.

Isaiah Zerbst

Date: 3/25/2013 10:20:00 AM

A great poem well worthy of being featured on the front page. Only I think it should be a lot higher so people don't get distracted on the way down!

Daver Austin

Date: 3/25/2013 7:40:00 AM

Some Stravinsky piano work, eh - the jumps and the jerks. I put my own interpretation to this one. Don't know what you had in mind. Congrats on the selection. daver

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 2/11/2013 5:09:00 PM

Remembering this one. The format looks as if it is a triolet to me!! But it does not have that triolet rhyme of course. I'm waiting for more poems from you. Thanks so much for what you said about my footles. It means a lot to me.

Harry Horsman

Date: 2/10/2013 2:38:00 AM

what a beautiful poem i've come across back here, Heather.. this is really stunning...

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 12/13/2012 10:35:00 PM

wow, such passion in this one!!! I had thought I'd seen even your bottom list of poems but I was wrong. Here is one I missed. I really enjoyed this and I'm so happy for what you said about Cinder Girl! Luv, Andrea

Rockman Pritts

Date: 1/22/2012 10:07:00 AM

Hello Heather and welcome. I've read all of your poems and enjoyed them very much. The flavor of your talent will be a well recieved ingredient to the Soup mix. I look forward to reading more. Rockman :-)

Heather Ober
Date: 5/5/2012 6:33:00 AM

Thank you for your kind comment :)

Annabelle Jane

Date: 1/20/2012 3:44:00 PM

Wow... loved this, especially "No borrowed breath can save it" - genius! x

Heather Ober
Date: 5/5/2012 6:33:00 AM

Thanks, Annie!