Feeling Blue and Knotted Up

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For inspiration I search license free photography and write according to what the image suggests to me. This is one of hundreds I have done. I intend on posting 100 examples of this type of writing.

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in the fervour of my sweat sheets drenched i wake to the toxic bellow of my own voice in the torment of my own thoughts in the complexity of my simple life i lay eyes swollen wide open in the measure of hours set aside for sleep overwhelmed by recent events i struggle with the haunting of their potential outcome in the exaggeration of my emotional outpour i bleed tears dry to the air of the night i shrivel like a plum under light so this is what it is like to be a prey to grief an abhorrent internal pain i forget its feel when it is gone i remember its feed when it is here bent out of sorts barely able to walk i return to the inferno of my now quiet i keep my affliction private and unassuming Feb 28 2016 armand

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Poet Destroyer A

Date: 10/7/2016 7:36:00 AM

Now this is poetry, I love how you managed to walk back to a space many won't admit is there. Painful to read this. I feel this is from the most toughest part of your soul... one of my super faves from you... with lots of love .. Linda

Funom Makama

Date: 5/12/2016 11:56:00 AM

Beautiful in the most unique way.. Loving this piece so much

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 3/5/2016 8:32:00 PM

you need to let it out. I tell everyone that will listen. That's just me. I love the deep feeling in this one, Armand. A FAVE

Daver Austin

Date: 2/29/2016 3:25:00 PM

"In the complexity of my simple life" This dichotomy says worlds and set up the poem perfectly, Maurice. I like this one mucho. Love, daver

James Inman

Date: 2/29/2016 2:38:00 PM

Maurice, read all of your "Picture Words" poems so far, outstanding! I mentioned to Andrea once that I have a great respect for your poetry. "A Long Loud Sigh" was the first on my favorites list.

Lin Lane

Date: 2/29/2016 12:25:00 AM

I like this one very much, despite the cry of your bleeding tears, or perhaps because of it. Very well expressed, Armand.