Poetic Expression

To leaven my load
I express in code
The pain that I feel
Still, nobody knows

To pass the time
I make it rhyme
Still, no one hears
The bottom line

It sounds so clear
To my, partial ears
Still others twist
The words they hear

It’s hard to heal
And learn to deal
When no one sees
The part that’s real
Copyright © | Year Posted 2018

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March 5, 2018 at 8:01 AM
Touching composition dear poetess. I like it and I get it <3
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March 5, 2018 at 5:32 AM
For my part, rhyme shows more effort than rambling free verse. Yours is excellent. Some poets carry abstraction to its natural end - distraction. My view is poetry should be open-ended but not so far as to fall into self-pity. It IS disappointing when the reader misses your main point. You have said it well, Anna.
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