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Living on the Edge 2

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Thursday, April 28, 2005

Strange: to feel your self cemented

at the blood-heavy roots within

yet clearly incomplete. Unsafe somewhere.

Thoughts and mercurial impression race

between skin and muscles, blood and soul,

like radioactive maggots contaminating

all the best beliefs you hold about you.

At your feet a translucent bird

struggles like a broken nation.

Upon its wings, within its breasts

a thousand colors shine stories

about you: all the love you slaughtered,

the hatred you rocked in your arms like some

sad little boy-orphan or your own smelly evil.

These are knowings: from which you

have always ran. Now pulsing at your feet

like Achilles� bloody wound.

Now ravenous and raving for morsels of mercy.

Aberjhani

�4/28/2005

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Reviewed by Karla Dorman, The StormSpinner

Reviewed on May 9, 2005

Damn, the emotions just EXPLODE off the page! Strongly visceral, powerful write--WELL DONE!

(((HUGS))) and love, Karla. :(

Reviewed by A Serviceable Villain

Reviewed on May 4, 2005

_Aberjhani,

Magnificent poetic write ... penned to perfection!!

Blessings,

Robert

Reviewed by Muhammad Al Mahdi

Reviewed on May 4, 2005

THese are knowings: from which you have always ran...is a particularly grabbing statement. It is forcefully rendered.

Reviewed by Mitzi Jackson

Reviewed on May 3, 2005

felt the truth and pain (for expression sake)
in stating......enjoyed
the sting
(miss it)

Reviewed by Chanti Niven

Reviewed on May 1, 2005

I can only echo the sentiments of my peers. Your poetic genius is well evidenced here. I am a great admirer of your work. You inspire me to new heights.
Chanti

Reviewed by Zenith Elliott

Reviewed on May 1, 2005

Great depth of meaning in your words, Outstanding write.

Reviewed by Regis Auffray

Reviewed on April 30, 2005

You have great talent and you unselfishly share it most aptly in these verse once again. Thank you. Love and peace. Regis

Reviewed by jude forese

Reviewed on April 29, 2005

your powerfully descriptive poetic analysis leaves me in awe ... some cannot handle the truth about themselves so they run from it ...

Reviewed by Iva Lawson

Reviewed on April 29, 2005

I've heard you were the master poet. You get no arguement from me on that. I once opened myself up and took a look inside. This work reminds me of what I saw there. Once I recovered from fainting at the sight of me, I felt brave enough to look again. Yeah, that was me allright. Writing always cleanses me. Thank you for the depth of this piece.

Reviewed by Emeka Nwogu

Reviewed on April 29, 2005

Powerful tapestry from the master. Your pen is always an arrow piercing through the soul of your readers. Thank you very much.

Emeka

Reviewed by Andre Bendavi ben-YEHU

Reviewed on April 28, 2005

"Living on the Edge 2" delivers its message through wise sounds.
It is a poetic glow from the fountain of wisdom.

Healthy be Your creative days, sublime Poet!

Andre Emmanuel Bendavi ben-YEHU

Reviewed by Nordette Adams

Reviewed on April 28, 2005

Feed it self-forgiveness and fly, you beautiful soul. Grow and soar! As always, stunning work. I printed it out and meditated on it in a parking lot while waiting for my kids. :-) ~~Nordette

Reviewed by Erin Kelly-Moen

Reviewed on April 28, 2005

You have some lovely word-relations, Poet Aberjhani, like strange and struggles, thoughts and thousand, radioactive and hatred. I can also feel the 'b's' presences in all the verses and some intriguing lop-sides vowel alliteration.

Linda's right, this one, to me, was felt, but not so much, at first, in the meaning of its words, but in its lettering structure and moody tone. Then, awareness bites and propounds the secondary realization of the meaning of those words, creating a double-pathos echoing effect that still rings in my mind.

Thank you for this lesson.

Erin Elizabeth Kelly-Moen

Reviewed by L. Figgins

Reviewed on April 28, 2005

Some poems you FEEL, and to describe them is futile. To hear your poetry aloud would be beauty, Aberjhani...Startling when you see yourself in a crystal mirror, devoid of illusion. The shame burns truth. You know her name. You come to your authentic self. Your tears cleanse. You grow. From everything you grow...

Reviewed by Paul Williams

Reviewed on April 28, 2005

Exceedingly profound and poignant discourse exploring our polemic nature painted in pure art. Superb!

Paul;-]

Reviewed by Jerry Bolton (Reader)

Reviewed on April 28, 2005

Whoa! Puttin' the bad-mouth on somebody. I wonder who. Have my ideas. A punch to the gut poem.

Reviewed by Kate Burnside

Reviewed on April 28, 2005

This is so powerful, Aberjhani: deeply personal and yet so universal. We are all men and all men are us. Guilty and yet innocent at the same time. The ties that bind us to each other... and even more so to ourselves - are strong. This is so graphic and intense that it is almost like shards of glass beneath my bare feet... and rightly so. TY Kate xx

Reviewed by Tinka Boukes

Reviewed on April 28, 2005

Excellent powerful piece...thanks for this offering!!

Love Tinka

Reviewed by E T Waldron

Reviewed on April 28, 2005

Aberjhani, your poems are always a feast for the poets soul!
Thank you for sharing! However you have lived, methinks you
are doing something right, if you can write like this;-)

Eileen

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