Paper Wings
By With love_Crow
Only in broken dreams
Will you fly with
Those paper wings
And inspire envy
For those trivial things
Psalms and hexes
You kiss and tell
Lips that glisten
With prayers and spells
You're trapped within
The freedom it brings
In this mind set
You flitter about
Like a moth caught
In a child's net
You're
a dreamless mass
Within a jar
Of red stained glass
On puppet
strings
But on your back
You proudly wear
Mache annexes
Meaning everything
From newspaper clips
And old magazines
You've carefully crafted
Those paper wings
But they will crumple
From the weight of
Your desires and the
Real of things
You'll wake one day
With raw shoulder blades
And realize paper
cuts
Do sting
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Copyright 2012 With love_Crow
Published on Friday, March 9, 2012.
Filed under:
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Comments on "Paper Wings"
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On Tuesday, July 18, 2017, worm
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last two lines... perfect!
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A former member wrote:
Good narrative description. I like the detail. ][ ][
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On Monday, March 12, 2012, Sean Mc Shane
(606) wrote:
Awesome write. I like the visuals that come to mind. Thanks for posting. later -
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On Friday, March 9, 2012, FadedBlues
(2096) wrote:
...'trapped within freedom': that defines all of us...'Awesome' is commonplace in your work.
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On Friday, March 9, 2012, dwells
(4177) wrote:
And of what sterner stuff are your wings made? This was spell-binding and superbly expressed as only you can do, thanks.
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On Friday, March 9, 2012, Alchemist
(679) wrote:
It's funny because I have been thinking about writing a similar poem called Paper Tiger but you did this one so beautifully I wont kick around my idea anymore. I was really feeling this.