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Travelling Home

An evening, sitting, wanting, ripping, blackening.
An acerbic wind.
Wait for the train and the glut of passengers to spill out.
The end, endless encircling madness, himself in the wilderness.
Girls, Judas and their selfish wives, lives pass, suck Jesus.
In his selfish mask.
Tormented, pushed down, I’m full: kill, hell thoughts.
Giggle to stifle grief, uncomfortable familiar family and perfect terror.
Blackening pain, attempt pure thinking, try, again.
Want out, approaching train lights through fog.
He looks at me, assumes I’m lonely, disrupts.
He wants to talk, is heading my way but I want to head home.
My insides chase my mind, it takes one step off the platform, I’m gone.

suicidelonelinessmadnessvoicestrain

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Andy N

Fri 29th Nov 2013 12:43

lot going on in here, emma. i particularly like the use of the first and last line here but there is a lot of excellent lines in here (really).

really enjoyed this.

andy

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Emma Stradling

Fri 29th Nov 2013 11:32

Thanks very much Ged. You've picked up on exactly what I was trying to show. I think it's important to give a voice to a tortured soul. Quite often they/we don't get a chance.

Emma

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Greg Freeman

Fri 29th Nov 2013 11:14

A train poem with a heart of darkness. Some very striking lines here, Emma. Nice to see you back on Write Out Loud.

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Ged Thompson

Fri 29th Nov 2013 01:23

Wow!

Very dark, the poetic accent of a tortured soul. I think all poets are somewhat tortured souls. I hate when you hear someone ask another poet why they started writing and they reply with such garbage as "Ive always been creative and had a nice way of putting things" Pain creates poets, if we are honest it is the fundamental catalyst to becoming a writer....

I digress sorry....

I love the darkness of this and its honesty, its broken nature the way it stops starts and fragments as if the poet is viewing the situation through a smashed mirror and trying to put the pieces of the situation together through a process of extrapolating through tiny windows and clues. It comes across really well.

I love the second line, it cuts the first line dead as you read it as though a wind itself is cutting through the piece.

Sorry if I went on bit I tend to ramble when I am tired....

Good piece well done XXXX

Ged

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