“If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best teach it to dance.”
– George Bernard Shaw
“There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.”
– Wilson Mizner
“Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.”
– Audre Lorde
Artifacts
A poet
Talks of
Old notebooks
Journals
Filled with
The bones
She hardly
Recognizes
Cadavers of
Her hearts
Pouring
Of the past
Yes it is
Her writing
But she cannot
Get back inside
The feelings
Dialogue
Did he have
A middle name
Now blended
With the dust
Unrecognizable
Do I avoid
Old journals
Because they are
Passé
Or because
I know
My skeletons
Have tongues
Bisous,
Léa
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our skeletons do have voices –
Yes! I know that mine do. However, some tell me theirs are silent. I cannot speak for everyone. I get into enough trouble on my own. 🙂
Our skeletons talk and dance and cry, now we write about them, too.
Perhaps yours, like mine, take over the keyboard as well? 🙂
ha..very cool quotes..esp. loved the first one..very interesting thoughts in your poems…for me..when i read my old poems (which are not really old) i connect immediately to the moment, to the scents, the emotions, the sounds…i always find this fascinating
Absolutely! However, when I wrote that, I had been reading several peoples comments about a disconnection there.
Thanks, I do love a good quote.
your words are beautiful and well placed.
Merci beaucoup! Thank you for stopping by and I hope you will come again. Perhaps you would consider glancing at my other blog? http://foundinfrance.wordpress.com
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