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Minerva Goes Unchained
by Patricia Gomes → (All Poetry by Patricia Gomes)
  
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To dance barefoot upon Dusk’s misted carpet, to feel words worm a path to my soul and tear open old wounds, wrap me in contemporary concepts.

Bank a fire. Cause a dream. Catch
a nine-letter word for soft (surely there is one!)
on the tip of my index finger. To feel,

caress, fancy, inhale, bask, embrace, bleed,

die

…if I must, but let it be in Poetry’s dazzling light!
Is this too much to ask?

You bludgeon me with Reality while I yearn
only for shelter in analogy, my yoke
a harness of tempting text.
You show me raging seas, tempests tossed
as the Green of eons evaporates
under spreading atoms…Life's summit.
My endurance is at its apex, Minerva,
I beg you stop;

my senses are desperate to feast upon the buds
of lilacs, the coil of ivy
just one season more.
Grant me this thing and I will prune the olive branches
in your stead. Then,

chained to the tail of a passing comet, I will surrender to your darker Bleak Heavens
and the final unwritten page.


© P. Gomes 2003




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Sorry...the headlines and CNN just get to you some days, don't they?

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 Reviews of "Minerva Goes Unchained"
Reviewed by Amber Lynn (Reader)
Reviewed on January 22, 2003
I still want a book with just your poetry in it. I work at a B. Dalton, and would love to have something new to sell in the poetry line. Excellent as always.

Reviewed by Amber Lynn (Reader)
Reviewed on January 20, 2003
Love your line breaks and natural, free rhythm. Very nice work indeed. Wonderful image. Much enjoyed.

Thank you for your kind comments concerning my work. I am grateful for them.

Be well,
Michael

Reviewed by Faye Enno (Reader)
Reviewed on January 20, 2003
This was just great!
Excellent piece..

Reviewed by Trey Bienville (Reader)
Reviewed on January 19, 2003
What a tapestry of truth, exposing so many of my own thoughts & feeling! Love...
A New Fan... Trey!

Reviewed by jude forese
Reviewed on January 19, 2003
awesome write! in the invisible kingdom there is always good news... look for what you cannot see...

Reviewed by Micha Julian
Reviewed on January 18, 2003
God, yes they do and I thank god for this, ohhh, damn oh...you, i thank so much, how this feels, how, inside another...your words, my friend just, so...true, and spoke what maybe i couldn't, oh i love your work..and this, thank you...truly, thank you..ah, (((Patricia))), YOU had the courage to write it...oh!
m.

Reviewed by Kay P Devenish
Reviewed on January 17, 2003
Alexandra is a nine letter word for soft (she's my baby...11 years old) your poem is
thought provoking and evokes many beautiful images.

Reviewed by Maria Lupinacci
Reviewed on January 16, 2003
My Guru,
You know how I feel about this poem, it moved me so much, that I had to write yesterday! You are the inspiration behind "Calliope...By Request"!

Love Ya,
Maria
xoxoxox

Reviewed by Adam Walsvik (Reader)
Reviewed on January 15, 2003
I came close to religeous ecstacy at the end there. I am awed by what you can conjure at will!

Adam

Reviewed by Erin Kelly-Moen
Reviewed on January 15, 2003
Wow, Pat, how eloquently charming this is, interupted by a touch of menace and darkness...it's taken my breath away...

Reviewed by Katy Walsvik (Reader)
Reviewed on January 15, 2003
True beauty! Are you sure you actually typed this.. it reads as though simply breathed onto the page.. wonderful! katy.

Reviewed by E T Waldron
Reviewed on January 15, 2003
This is a feast for the poet...especially one like me who can only wish to write like this! I say screw the news, but can't stop watching...go figure;-)...love the art also;-)

Reviewed by Leysa Lowery
Reviewed on January 15, 2003
This is just lovely

Reviewed by Joel Raja Kumar J (Reader)
Reviewed on January 15, 2003
Well said, Pat, I don't know what the news is but I only hope it is not war because that is what uncle sam is talking about these days.

Love from India - Joel -

Reviewed on January 15, 2003
excellent, patricia, the news has a way of intruding and shattering the peace we feel within...well written and heartfelt. i still want to be informed, however, i don't sit and watch the news for hours like i used to...september 11 changed all that... (((HUGS))) and love, karla. :)

Reviewed by anne cunningham
Reviewed on January 15, 2003
to be granted and surrender ... really, really liked this.

Reviewed by na na (Reader)
Reviewed on January 15, 2003
Patricia, this is beautiful and opens your heart to the feelings trapped by a facade of
stone. Digging past the stone with a jack-hammer of lifes emotions to dig out your feelings that touch your soul and touch my heart. Wonderful Lady. Cheer up. Some people love you very much. Bill

Reviewed by La Belle Rouge (Reader)
Reviewed on January 15, 2003
I know Baby Girl, they got to me so bad I had to stop watching for a while. This is wonderful work. Try to have a good day.


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