Tuesday, April 26, 2011

NAPOWRIMO #26: BROKEN

For 2011's National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo), Troy's Work Table is attempting to write thirty poems in thirty days without the help of writing prompts from other websites.

Many of these are still in some sort of draft stage, but that is the nature of the Work Table.

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BROKEN

For one it was a broken hand
another, a broken head
another, a broken heart

it was all monkey see, monkey do

see no evil, hear none, speak none

yet they tried to link their bones
into one framework, one skeleton
that merely lumbered about

like a diseased silverback gorilla

without focus, without aim, lacking direction

a wheel without spokes

slightly bent out of shape
like a hard-boiled egg
that hadn’t been properly

tested in the flames

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Copyright © 2011 by Troy's Work Table

1 comment:

Kimberlee said...

I really liked the tone of this and how it just all really came together. Nice job. :)