9/6/13 For the Women who Paint Contest Series: FRIDA KAHLO in Free verse contest Sept. 5, 2021 for ''H'' Contest, New Or Old Poems Poetry Contest Sponsor: Constance La France
Aug 1, 2025 entered in Mark Toney's '2025 Poetry Marathon Mile 1' Contest
Five excruciating months I’ve spent inside this corset made of steel. It binds the soul beneath my broken column. See me standing here naked before this bleak and arid landscape, fissured like the furrows of this barren yellow plain on which a child to call my own will never play. See my flesh impaled by nails. From head to toe they travel down my body. See the largest nail. It pricks that part of me from whence my love flowed freely for the one man I adored. . . See my chest, which houses the heart that he has pierced again and again and again. See my tears, white against my sullen face. Only you who know true heartbreak can feel the anguish painted in my eyes. My body I laid bare to help you see inside me, but how can someone paint the sorrowed soul? Five excruciating months I’ve spent inside this corset made of steel. It’s only an extension of my entire life’s ordeal. Though it’s meant to heal me, it is but a constant cruel reminder that heartbreak is my companion Ever more.
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