Friday, April 3, 2009

The Broken Bond of Glass For Seven

The Broken Bond of Glass for Seven

Crept up to me slowly crawling
churning turning aching underneath
Wrapping head and heart around
Too soon this is
Too hard, so hard

I can not for the breath in me
Take it in underneath my clothes
Stripping me down to nakedness
While you stand there laughing
But time and again, I do

Patterns like a jigsaw sorely confused
Dangling from a hook on the wall
Asking for forgiveness from justice
You can love me can't you
You can live inside my body at night

Complexity drowns the daddy legs
Long before the real person
Is allowed to evolve and design
Through nature. Through life.
Kittens trample in an alley way

So dismal. A dark it must be
Vulnerable yet intact.  Boundaries
Breaking down each second now
Takes no time to realize a needle
Hurts the skin, but sometimes saves

Glass shatters, mirror cracks
My mothers back is broken now
How could this all correct the false
The hurt stares back at me
Distorted contorted and disturbed

From the gleam of the green
Near the blackest of the black
A tiny light shines, ever so small
But there, it can not be all for nothing
Yet no one is ever there.

I am here. I am my walls now
As the shiny eyebrow mirror
Comes breaking in this time
My back so pretty, should have 
Been enough. To part and wander
Five more years, will you let me go?

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Working on a new book....

it is a chilly Thursday in March and my mothers birthday to boot.
our family will go to dinner tonight at the club in a private room called  ' the wine room'! 
i loved this name.  I see photo opportunities galore! 
i am going around in my head how to dive into this next book. More thoughts on this to follow.
following through is my enemy at the gate. challenges are what make us stronger though. 

more to follow...

Sunday, February 8, 2009

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Just a Stanza

Stanza from " Echo of Your Hand"


Violent graceful empty destiny's
The breathing and screaming 
Have remained dormant through time
Avoidance bewilders 
The provoking probing once shared


     Annie B

Spiders In My Journal

Deception Walks on Eight Legs

For such a long time, I always tried to make what was going to exist in the gray area appear to me more clear, whether it be black or white.  Through my writing and processing thoughts, I realized that there was no firm reason why we must know the cause of an action.  More importantly, time became a healing mechanism, and tangled webs began to loosen the silken and beautiful yet excruciating constraint.  Life as it is, reminds me of colors each day that I had forgotten existed.  The ability to say good-bye is a blessing.  It is a difficult thing to achieve, but a must for true happiness.  Letting go is learning to love yourself. 

- We reconnect like a puzzle
 A masterful game in which we play
 How does defeat serve such a purpose?
 When letting go has a more brilliant outcome
 But intelligence never resides in the heart

                           Annie K. Barrow