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The Corners Of My Eyes
by Richard Reed Jr
copyright 04-09-2006


Age Rating: 7 to 127

 
I awake
Within the four dark corners
Of my room
Like the darkness
That has fallen on my life


---Ah my life, it's such a narrow thing


From out of the corner of my eye
Sitting frozen by
The darkness in her eye
In the corner of her cage
I see my little parakeet sit by


---Ah she's such a little bird


She has no friends to visit
As have I
I wonder if there's a way to measure
If she's sad


---Ah her world is such a little world


I click the light
And from the other eye
The image of a baseball
Resides there

Evoking memories of cheers
Hits runs and errors
Sunny long gone days
That used to be
Now wiped out by this
Counterfeit joint within my knee


---Ah they were only superficial things


Image after image
Catches the corners of my eyes
My guitar my pen my poetry books
These trivial things
Have shaped my world

Then wrings the biggest tear
From my eye
The darkness of my life

A little brown box
Atop my desk
The ashes of my pepper-colored dog

I cried so often when she left
I still cry on gray days
On those days
When she becomes the only thing
To live within
The corners of my eyes


---Ah life is such a puzzling thing!



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04-27-2006 Kimberly Murphy    

I loved your poem. True, life is puzzling. I really love your work. I always read your poems alot. Very entertaining.

Kimberly Murphy


04-26-2006 Tiffany Forster    

Another brillant peice of work. I am rather upset that I was away so long and unable to keep up with your stuff, your style has really evolved. Everythign you write is so very heartfelt and envoking with such a personal twist to it. I have to say, the final stanza is my favorite, when you write " When she becomes the only thing;/ To live within;/ The corners of my eyes"
-finds some Kleenex-
Amazing job, keep this up!
-twirls away leaving sakura blossoms in her wake-

Tiffany


04-22-2006 Regina Pate    

I can't get enough of your writting style, I have to say, everything flows so well, I think I like it hehe lol anyway. Great write. Good job. Thanks

Gina


04-22-2006 Judy Meeker    

Ah this is so sand in the beginning. Poor little bird. I know how they may feel. I have a white umbrella cockatoo and she gets lonely for a mate. It is shameful that we as people keep beauty caged like that. But if we did not have these little fellows, somebody would. Somebody that may abuse them. Take care of the birdie!
God bless,
mrs. Tigran Israelyan


04-16-2006 Mary -BrytEyz- Ball    

I read a scripture the other day where a king who had it all and had accomplished much looked back on it all stated, "it was all vanity". True, yes? And yet, what is life without our memories to keep us company? The past was the present once, but today is the present now. There is happiness in every moment, should we choose to find it. You know, I'm just that stubborn that I refuse to let a day go by WITHOUT finding it! LOL


04-15-2006 Sam Hackel-Butt    

The one stanza that catches my attention the most, is:

Image after image
Catches the corners of my eyes
My guitar my pen my poetry books
These trivial things
Have shaped my world


I always give things that shaped me into what I am great importance, and always remember those events, people, objects, etc... because it does help in deep soul searching, and when you do explore your own dark side.

A beautiful poem. Character development is done well. I feel as if I know the person myself, like he's an old friend that I haven't seen in awhile.

Sam of the Commenting Crusaders


04-15-2006 David Pekrul    

When we constantly look back, without also looking forward, we become trapped in the past. That is what this write conveyed to me. It sounded like the narrator is suffering with depression and is not even able to get out of bed.
Good write; very expressive.


04-10-2006 Leigh G.    

Very nice...very dark... This is a really good poem with good comparisons. I know what it's like to have a pet die. My old cat Daltre, died about six years ago, and I still miss her. She's buried in a coffin in the back yard. Presently, I have two cats...Dimey-chan's turning five, I know he's still young but... Happiness may be forgotten when the clouds open and the rain pours down, but there's another thing that rain does: It washes away the pain that you're feeling. And when the sun shines again there's only one thing you can do. Keep walking forward.

May the divine darkness be with you,
Leigh of the Commenting Crusaders


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