Monday, April 7, 2014

Paper Mosaics



image by cohdra

 

Poems are
stained paper mosaics,

words
picked up
on the journey,
dismantled proverbs
set

in the window glass
of personal palaces
and in the stepping stones
of personal ghettos;

broken tile stories
crafted

with more blood
than it looks.



© 2014 Jennifer Wagner


Happy National Poetry Month!

10 comments:

Tank said...

I really like this! Especially the contrast between palaces and ghettos, finishing off with a dark twist...

Brian Miller said...

smiles...of the broken, something made whole again....
given form and def rimmed in our blood...

Optimistic Existentialist said...

Wow - what an amazing analogy. Poems really are like this aren't they? So beautifully abstract.

Rajesh said...

A masterpiece this one. Yes. With more blood than it looks. Thank you.

RMP said...

wow...such an amazing way to look at the construct of a poem...I like the idea of creating paper mosaics.

Grace said...

Stellar opening lines up to the end ~ I love the beautiful crafting of words from broken tile stories ~

Wendy Bourke said...

A stunning, thoughtful piece. Beautiful words, Jennifer, that wind their way to closing lines that startle and stay with the reader.

ayala said...

Poems are
stained paper mosaics...I like that and we definitely bleed when we write.

Wolfsrosebud said...

they certainly are and you pieced it together wonderfully

Anonymous said...

a lot more blood... ~