Friday, March 30, 2012

Wine and Roses












And still




Scent of denial
Fragrant, cloying
Skeleton of our life
Doing double time

And still

A shattered remnant
Remains vital enough
To jostle memories
Of wine and roses


Chris McQueeney
3/29/12
8:56 P.M.




This piece was put together for 3WW and also for dVerse  both are good places to go and see some work by some very talented poets.

15 comments:

  1. Imaginative thought. Perfect moment.

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  2. just a few words, yet beautifully saying
    so much.

    nicely done!

    love the image.

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  3. there's something so suggestively dark and mysterious about this...

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  4. Very nice. I have one called "And Still" too. There is something about those words.

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  5. This reminds me of the movie, and how alcohol robs so many of their best selves. Very evocative of loss and perhaps regret.

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  6. you are a deep thinker, chris, and yet you convey your thoughts and experiences in such simple language.

    and the word cloy! i'll find a way to use that somewhere !

    memories. i used to think they existed in the past, but now i know better.

    happy weekend mr wander


    kj

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  7. Brought to mind the movie for me. Very nicely put.

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  8. Love this: "Scent of denial
    Fragrant" and your final thought as well.

    ~Shawna
    rosemarymint.wordpress.com

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  9. the scent of denial is a great opening line...and sadly the alcohol will rob...

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  10. Great opening line...scent of denial...contrasting with wine and roses ~

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  11. I suck at interpreting poetry...
    maybe I'm not deep enough, or perhaps I'm too literal, or maybe just dense. However, I trust your words. They are always believable and so...here, I believe there is pain.

    OH... and I learned a new word: cloying

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  12. @ all thank you for your comments...
    Shannon you are very close...I am blunt with a lot of my poetry...a lot of it has very personal meaning and I guess I am not a patient poet even though I try to write in a general way I don't try to intentionally obfuscate so as to sound grandiose or deep. just me...

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  13. Very imaginative,great use of the prompts

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