Poem -
Trojan Heart
Capricious tis a Trojan heart
Citadel secured to Cupidβs dart
Bound by armored locks
A nemesis doggedly knocks
Pursue not this dark horse
It harbors solely remorse
Spurn a yearning refrain
Infernal ardor lulls in vain.
Treacherous a foolβs design
Faint a love which is mine
Cast emotions to the sea
Prest by fervent decree
Fortified rod-iron steel
Encased it cannot feel
Breach not a fickle part
Damn, this wooden heart
Comments
So much depth Lisa, I'm blown away by your beautiful poetry.
Thank you for your kind support Gerard. I am always grateful for the love
Fan-tastic, Leeza! However, just for reference, you do not have a wooden heart, but a beautiful, warm, kind one.Β
Great writing!Β
Matthew.Β
PS. I did an x-ray while you were sleeping, and I think you ate some of my whittling(which would explain the wood in your body), and I could see your big, wonderful heart behind it. Thanks.Β
So that's why my mouth tasted like sawdust when I crawled out of bed this morning, good to know who my true friends are. It is such an honor to whittle such a gracious friendship from my bestest bud.Β
Well, to tell you the truth, I accidentally dropped the eggs I was cooking you, for your breakfast in bed, on the floor, and rather than take the trouble of making new ones(all that cracking and stuff), I just whittled some new ones out of the table leg in your kitchen. I hope you enjoyed them.Β
M.Β
well eggs aren't all cracked up like they use to be.... and I don't have a kitchen table so don't know where you could have gotten the wood from.Β
Oh poop! Maybe I was in the wrong house!! Are you at 1215 Monkeybumps Rd. East Lansing, Iowa 98289?? It looked like you...but then again I've never seen you, so it could have been Mrytle Fleenpopper III. Can you research this for me? I'd like to get her a new table. Thanks!Β
M.Β
Hi Lisa!Β That is one impenetrable heart you created in this write!Β Ouch!Β But you know, I think those steel-hearted souls are that way from years of being hurt and building a fortress to protect it.Β Great theme and write.Β You know how to pack a punch in tight rhymes...Awesome work. xo ;)
Can I just interject that Pinocchio once had a wooden heart, but turned out to be pretty nice in the end(after all his smoking, and verbal abuse of people). Thank you.Β
Shut up, Matt.Β
Will do.Β
M.Β
Lol...Yeah, well that outcome rarely ever happens...In fact, I only know of that one fairy tale scenario that worked out in the end.Β And it doesn't really count if it is a make believe story does it?Β Usually a life of abuse and bad influence leads to one of those really bad after school special outcomes..lolΒ You should really play the game, Quiplash if you haven't..on PS4...because you would be a master at coming up with hilarious answers....I play it with my kids and it is really funny.Β You would rule at it. ;)Β
Hey Cheerie, you amazing person! I just saw this comment(sometimes I miss them if I don't see them). Thank you! And I've never heard of that game, but it sounds like fun. I love board games. I really like that Pictionary one, but my drawing is so horrendous that people can never guess my answers. lol. Once I drew some mutton, and my playing partner thought it was a chicken having a cerebral hemorrhage(we got half a point because no one knew what mutton was, but it was still an awful drawing...but it's fum). I also like Trivial Pursuit, but you would beat me like a rented mule in that, because you're so smart. We used to play this one game, when I was little called Masterpiece, in which all of the cards were famous paintings, and I loved that(because I loved the paintings). Have you ever heard of it?Β
Anyway, sorry about rambling. I guess I was just born a ramblin' man, trying to make a living, and doing the best I can. I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus rollin' down Highway 41...kidding...now I have to go listen to Ramblin' Man by The Allman Brothers(I'm sorry, but everything in my life seems to relate to music somehow. lol). You'rwe(you'rwe?? That's Swahili for you're) the best!Β
Matthew.Β
Matt thank you for your witty support.
You're welcome...and you're wonderful.Β
Matthew.
Matty, you are such a fresh breath of hot air
Cherie sometimes I feel like instead of blood I have sawdust in my veins. thank you for your support. I have been hurt deeply throughout my life and the words come with a trail of pencil shavings
Interjectory point: Listen, I eat a lot of Little Caesar's pizza, and they actually put sawdust(wood pulp) in their pizza, to keep the cheese firm, or something, so that may be the sawdust feeling you are incurring, but it's totally safe to have other solutions, other than blood, coursing through your veins. Once, when I was having an operation(a gluteus maximus reduction surgery), the doctor actually forgot about the needle he put in my arm to take a vial of blood, and drained my entire circulatory system onto the floor. Anyway, when he came back in, and realized all my blood was gone, he tried to fill me back up without anyone noticing, but I have a rare blood type(Z-negative), and they didn't have any of that. So, he filled me up with apple juice(they were out of tomato, which would have looked better, but that damn Myrna Fillstein in Room 3B had drunken it all), and I never knew the difference...except that I've always had a curious fascination with that Johnny Appleseed story since then. So, please don't worry, OK?Β
Thanks,Β
M.Β
I have to tell ya when you make me smile it wrecks havoc on my somber state of mind which totally dampens my muse. lol
Sorry Kiddo, but when you make me somber-ized it heaps panic on my kidneys, and dampens my shorts, so we're even...Steven...when did you change your name??!!Β
M.Β
don't tell anyone but I use to be a goat...it happened when I was just a kid. I use to faint quite a bit so...
LOL(Loving Our Laminectomies!).Β
I like your silly, girl!Β
M.Β
How could you know my real name....It brings such a lump in my throat to remember they called me....Silly Nilly. Go figure memories are such a ninny...
LOL. Please have that lump checked out...I'm afraid you might have an errant piece of a McChicken sandwich lodged in there. Thanks!Β
M.Β
But Iβve been munching grass fritters I just know itβs got to be tuft
Glass critters!! That sounds dangerous!!Β
goats are vegetarian...so I don't munch on a glass menagerie..Β
i admire the straighforward lyrical aspect of this
piece. its profound as well.
thank you for taking the time to stop by and comment
you"re most welcome ma'am.
ive read other works of yours
as well and liked them immensely.
do you write song lyrics asΒ
well if i may ask?
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no I haven't, would love to but not sure how