–Flesh and bones
Flesh and bones
A Poem by Coyote Poetry
Life is to be lived. Need to celebrate being alive.
Flesh and bones
(Need a positive poem. Life is to be celebrated. Each day is a gift.)
I fell from the top of the mountain.
I stood with so many victories.
I realized too late.
They don’t mean too much.
Beautiful young woman sitting between my legs.
She looked up.
Told me, “It don’t matter anyway.
We are only flesh and bones.”
I sat by the ocean.
Watching the her power and beauty.
The ocean is heartless.
So dangerous and tempting.
Woman with sad eyes sat with me.
She wished she was a better person.
I told her.
We are but flesh and bones.
In time we will fade away to distance memories.
I gave everything away.
I roamed with the poets and the musicians.
We sat late into the night together on lonely Monterey beaches.
Drinking and talking of things that was and were to be.
The singer sang a love song.
When he is done.
He told me.
” Love doesn’t really mean too much.
We are but flesh and bones.”
Just here awhile to try to celebrate being alive.
We danced and ran the lonely beaches.
We said a prayer to our God.
For one more day to be alive and free.
For we are but flesh and bones.
Coyote
, Sept 2008
we are from it, though far, far, sometimes!
that which layers the bones with its flesh!
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I agree. Flesh and bones can be a meaningful life or not. The term mean that all of us live, make mistakes and must move on. Thank you for reading and the comment.
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As Anthony says, you stripped flesh from bone and reached into the core of human psyche, revealing conscious and unconscious flaws and beauty.
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Thank you Sharon for reading. One of my old poems. Was young and unafraid of life.
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A fine poem viewing human frailty from different perspectives. You have, in a sense, stripped the flesh from the bones, exposing the anatomical structure of our egos. A couple of minor suggestions for your consideration: (the) her power… And ‘things that was (were) and were to be’. I enjoy the laid-back perceptiveness of yor writing.
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Thank you Anthony for reading and the help. I do appeciate.
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