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Soft Heart--Raw Nerve

SOFT HEART – RAW NERVE suspecting my position is unsound accepting sinking feelings I may drown heartbeat limp and malleable gentle and mellifluous yet scarcely stable smarting anguish of frayed nerve raw, synthetic hyper alert tests reserve escaping at last to spaces I go pacified nerve and compliant heart flow (‘mellifluous’ = pleasing to the ear) © Kim van Breda—April 2014

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Frederic Parker

Date: 4/14/2014 5:09:00 PM

a nice poem, the beinning of wisdom is to know yourself

Mel Merrill

Date: 4/11/2014 12:06:00 AM

Kim, my dear, this a really nice poem. I enjoyed reading it; thank you. Seems you're quite the wordsmith and imagist. My compliments. swing by when your in the area. hugs // mel // :)

Poet Destroyer A

Date: 4/9/2014 11:53:00 AM

Hello Kim, What a delight to learn the pleasing sound, of mellifuous,.... It's easy to enjoy & appreciate the words , when written with such much feeling and flow... xox~ Linda