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mend our wounded mouths

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when those times our words were strained
and love hemorhaged in softless pain

attempted sounds sawtoothed and dovetailed -
hammered with encrusted nails

i wish i could be the carpenter's tool
that mends our wounded mouth's fool

and caulk the cracks along our window pains
that which love our hearts contain.............
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

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Scheme XA XX BB XA
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 312
Words 51
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2
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i once read a poem by neruda, and it touched me to a point that propoelled my interest. and then i read althuzer by vicente huidobro whereby a man parachuted from the sky and the world unfolded into his poetic epic and it took me to a different place different from my ignorant geography of poetry. but then jorge luis borges blew my mind and made poetry not only about truth but utter sublime fiction amidst an exploded horizon- boundless literature off a free falling cliff and the only thing to do was grow wings in midair and take the ride. more…

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