The Crooked Road

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Upon coming across a logging road in the forest

The Crooked Road

 

I walk the crooked road

The only crooked thing

That a crooked walk could bring

To the scene of a crooked crime

Without the wind of wooden worry

–This turning of a dime

Made by the hand of man.

 

Exempt—

The trees that stand –straight and tall

But, even they will fall

Bent, broken, and rent

At man’s crooked wrath

Along his crooked path.

 

I walk and wonder

How to right this crooked plight

And tend the treaded scar

That mountain mud does mar

And walk without a print –to somehow know

A blanket of pristine and perfect snow—

 

Without the crooked cut, or the crooked sign

That is the brand of my God –who is less kind

Who cannot speak as wood and stream

But only become it in a dream

And awaken in attempt to stitch –and seam this crooked itch

With this crooked pen, and this crooked line

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ajz1966 commented on The Crooked Road

05-12-2011

By far one of the best poems I have read. Thank you for sharing. I knew I was in for a good read when I saw how well the profile bio was written. I even like the paintings on the wall in your pictures LOL. So many others have such good comments and I find myself wishing I could do more than wax on aimlessly with meaningless words. You are among the best of all the great writers I have found on this site.

VoiceMilkNHoney commented on The Crooked Road

03-15-2011

My Shallene...your hopes, your crooked heart, rent in this dream of a poem, shall never be twain in my heart thus. Your integrity of person, path, dream and heart are one to me. and always will be. And the poetry of your heart, as always, speaks to me so! I love you deeply, my chosen sista! Heidi

Worthless commented on The Crooked Road

03-09-2011

Well written.. Good Job!

VoiceMilkNHoney

03/15/2011

She is a gorgeous swallow of a poet... who encompasses the lost...and the loss the found and the finder The unheralded and the recompense the JOY and the Sadness the Loss and the Foundness. Yes, This woman, Shallene, she is the United States Poet Laureate To Be, so say I!

blvdobd2009 commented on The Crooked Road

03-04-2011

I want to be perfectly and candidly honest when I say that you left me breathless, this is my favorite line, "Exempt—The trees that stand –straight and tall But, even they will fall Bent, broken, and rent At man’s crooked wrath Along his crooked path." My gosh it just is the god honest definition of the truth, and I really feel that people are turning a deaf ear to this... You astound me and this poem really is indescribable, amazing and it really shines light on the ways of this evil world and of man who consistently corrupt it... SIMPLY BRILLIANT!

VoiceMilkNHoney

03/15/2011

the Loss and the Foundness. Yes, This woman, Shallene, she is the United States Poet Laureate To Be, so say I!

gmcookie commented on The Crooked Road

02-25-2011

Shallen, I emailed you an in-depth critique of this piece. I'm giving you a 10 kiddo. This is definitely a piece I can relate to.

The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet (1803-1882)

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