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Shadow dancing with Post Traumatic Stress
by Zenith Elliott → (All Poetry by Zenith Elliott)
  
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When it's good it's good, but when it's bad it's very bad...

Afraid


of what?


being afraid


sweating profusely


i need


a shower


fear


it's not safe


in the shower


Oh Oh


who's there


no one


everyone


the past


the present


the future


shadow dancing


in unknown spheres


fear gripping


my trachea


eyes bulging


i can't breath


heart pounding


like primal drums


pulse racing


faster than


the speed of light


i shall explode


the wall...the wall


quickly


put up the wall


silence... deep sigh


partial relief


my mind


is still


petrified


meditate


how


I can't


concentrate


think back...


when did it


begin


does it really matter


no!


not really


they say


it gets better


Ha!


when?


for who


this


prison


sucking


the life


out of my


very essence


someday


when


the


beginning


becomes


the


end...


 


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 Reviews of "Shadow dancing with Post Traumatic Stress"
Reviewed by Hiren Shah
Reviewed on August 2, 2003
Extremely unique presentation bound to have profound effect.

Reviewed by Rodney Bohen
Reviewed on August 1, 2003
Zenith,
First, may I thank you for your many kind remarks at my site, I apologise it has taken me so long to visit yours, life bars us at times, but bars are meant to be broken! especially when invisable, and the enemy is a dog with a fierce growl, but NO teeth!
Im attracted to your depth and unfolding honesty upon parchment, for me there is no other write nor factor that counts more!
write where your heart leads you, then record what you see! As honestly as you can...
Oh by the way, powerful write lass!

Sincerely,
Rodney

Reviewed by Richard Vallance (Reader)
Reviewed on July 23, 2003
Oh, oh, naughty naughty!

Alfred Hitchcock would have been PROUD OF YOU! (I know I am!)

Fabulously terrifying. AND, permit me to share this little anecdote with you. As a young gay lad in university, I used to fear being stabbed in the shower...

So there you go!

And I'm not afraid to share this with you, of all brave people!

Richard Vallance,
Ottawa, Ontario,
CANADA

BTW, Zenith, I have decided I want to see more of your poetry and that, FOR CERTAIN, I wish to publish you as the FEATURED POET for the WINTER 2004 issue of my general poetry E-Zine, POETRY IN EMOTION, which you can find on the links page, under Poetry E-Zines, on my home page,

http://poesieslaissezfaire.homestead.com

This offer is by invitation only.

I do not accept unsolicited ms.

So, Zenith, should you wish to be featured in that issue, please send me an e-mail to:

vallance22.coolgoose.com

When you send me your e-mail, I have a further proposition re. poetry for you.

Thank you,

Richard Vallance Janke,
Ottawa, Ontario,
CANADA


Reviewed by Russ Okamura (Reader)
Reviewed on July 23, 2003
Your poetry is truly artistic and masterful! You have passion from beginning to end, and profoundness from end to beginning.

Reviewed by Mark Mahoney (Reader)
Reviewed on July 22, 2003
"Some day when the beginning becomes the end"...everydays the beginning of our end...i do truly adore this poem, so very well written and amazing to read, well done...Mark ...

Reviewed by ShyPoet 1
Reviewed on July 22, 2003
Brilliant use of poetic technique to make your point. Very clever indeed. visually superb poem!

Reviewed by karla dorman
Reviewed on July 21, 2003
i forgot to mention, i'm adding this to my library of very favorites--congratulations

Reviewed on July 21, 2003
*whew* sounds like my stormphobic moments or when i'm trapped AND CAN'T GET OUT

geez...intense, vivid descriptions--the shortened sentences just add to the terror you portray

EXCELLENT *BRAVO*

(((HUGS))) and love,

karla. :) (believe me, i understand)


Reviewed by Regis Auffray
Reviewed on July 21, 2003
It feels like one of my many panic attacks. Well expressed.

Reviewed by Kate Clifford (Reader)
Reviewed on July 21, 2003
Great expression of this experience.

Reviewed by Linda Hill
Reviewed on July 21, 2003
Awesome poem Zenith..
I suffer depression
and I know what it
feels like. It CAN
suck the life of your
very existance.
BRAVO on such an
excellent write~!

~~Linda~~

Reviewed by Jeanette Foresta
Reviewed on July 20, 2003
oh god, you suffer, and write it like i do.(

Reviewed by E T Waldron
Reviewed on July 20, 2003
Wow Z! this was an intense write that had me gripped like I was sliding down on a live wire! Creatively done...Bravo!

Reviewed on July 20, 2003
This was excellent, I love this style of free floating streams, touches so deeply,

Reindeer

Reviewed by Kay P Devenish
Reviewed on July 20, 2003
BOOOO!

I get like that when I drink too much coffee or tea and breaking up with that one and only had the same effect way back when.
You describle fear perfectly but not knowing why would be so scarey.
I really liked the way you set it out....an excellent first rate poem.

The part about the shower reminded me of that movie of Alfred Hitchcocks with Janet Leigh and that creepy guy Norman Bates (what was the name of that movie?),she could never have a shower again she was too afraid too...)
10 OUT OF TEN!

Reviewed by Birdie Houston (Reader)
Reviewed on July 20, 2003
Well presented poem Zenith......it definetly touches ones soul


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