Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Break Free
Break Free
It doesn’t have to be this way
You know it doesn’t
We can unclamp
The vice of our
Grandmothers’ voices
You can take that hand
Gripping my arm
Loosen the fingers
Cup my cheek
Softly softly.
What is real?
That hereditary hunger
Our middle class manners
The golden rule
The hand that cups my cheek
My hand, that softly brushes
The hair from your eyes.
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ReplyDeleteThis is wonderful!
ReplyDeleteNice view! thanks- good post and poem.
ReplyDeleteI love the line about our grandmother's voices. Wow!
ReplyDeleteWe can unclamp
ReplyDeleteThe vice of our
Grandmothers’ voices
Oh, yes!
Wow, this is deep. Well done!
ReplyDeleteLovely piece, I was going to pick out the same extract as Jinksy, lovely phrasing.
ReplyDeleteOh, really sweet. : )
ReplyDeleteExcellent take on the Magpie. It's amazing how many different takes there are.
ReplyDeleteI prefer the succinct ones like yours to long stories.
I like the way this becomes free, so tender..well done!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful, Bug.
ReplyDeleteYour poems always seem to catch me right where I am and then transport me to some place wholly new.
ReplyDeleteDear The Bug,
ReplyDeleteThis is beautiful.
Ann T.
If only freeing was that easy...
ReplyDeleteHere is my magpie:
a wheel barrow
Beautiful writing.
ReplyDeleteI must say I love your header photo too. :-)
Paul
Beautiful piece, unclamping voices of those before us. Sensitive, heartfelt.
ReplyDeleteVery nice. And speaks to us all.
ReplyDeletelove the message in it.
ReplyDeletewell put,
Break Free. Yes!
ReplyDeleteWonderful!
Dear Bug
ReplyDeleteYes we can ignore those ancestral voices
but they whisper on.......
happy new year
wonderful thought
ReplyDeleteHappy 2011
Just why is it my grandmother's voice was like a vice? Could it be I knew she was wise (and right).. and I wasn't ready to admit it?
ReplyDeleteNice Magpie!!
A sharp and focussed take on the soft tyranny of the family. This works so well.
ReplyDeleteDeep indeed! I too like the vice of grandmother's voice.
ReplyDeleteMade to make one think...
ReplyDeleteInteresting concept - considerable depth in the words about learned behaviours and nature versus nurture. Love it!
ReplyDeleteFelt very comforted.
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