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Dead Man, Walking
by Karla Dorman, The StormSpinner → (All Poetry by Karla Dorman, The StormSpinner)
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I am fine. This just came to me, and so, I write...

The sky turns inside out; the wind
keens my name; lightning takes one
last picture for the record; thunder
drums a slow funeral dirge.

Rain pours down; it doesn't matter; I
will soon be dancing to an
electric beat.  Chained and fettered,
I am a dead man, walking.

No second-line, no jazzy tune,
no last minute reprieve...I
am escorted to my final end
by the powers of the storm.

(c) 2006, Karla Dorman.

 


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 Reviews of "Dead Man, Walking"
Reviewed by Susan de Vegter
Reviewed on August 13, 2006
Electrifying so defy the odds but get inside before you're a statistic.
Love,
Susan

Reviewed by Nordette Adams
Reviewed on August 13, 2006
Good stuff. Karla, your work really...you just zoom forward! ~~Nordette

Reviewed by Ch'erie de Perrot
Reviewed on August 13, 2006
Yikes, this is really "pardon the pun" Electric.

Its a double whammy too, the elements, the Chair!!
Oh boy, love it, urrrk hate it, you are too kewl mate

Hugs to yah Karla
Love Ch'erie

Reviewed on August 12, 2006

Enjoyed this composition... "Dead Man, Walking" is an outstanding symbological-impressionist and surreal poetic-philosophical grand.

I salute You, Poet.


Andre Emmanuel Bendavi ben-YEHU

Reviewed by E T Waldron
Reviewed on August 12, 2006
You can write in any genre karla, and do it well! Excellent deep dark and very well written!

Love,
Eileen

Reviewed by Ed Matlack
Reviewed on August 12, 2006
Heavy stuff, provoking thoughts of an end...e

Reviewed on August 12, 2006
As always this is a great write Karla, write on and be blessed in the writing
God Bless
Michelle~

Reviewed by Tinka Boukes
Reviewed on August 12, 2006
You do dark poetry well Karla!!

Love Tinka

Reviewed by Myrna Badgerow
Reviewed on August 12, 2006
I do not write from the darkside often nor do I read it that often.. but this I like! Your words do offer some varied interpretations, I think.. excellent work!

Myrna

Reviewed by Kate Clifford (Reader)
Reviewed on August 12, 2006
when you do dark you do very well. Few people realize that dark writes can be done while the author is in a great mood :-)

Reviewed on August 12, 2006
Oh Karla, a dark and powerful poem, this is excellent!

Reindeer

Reviewed by Peter Paton
Reviewed on August 12, 2006
Karla

I can feel those cool and refreshing rains and waters falling already..
Superb write

Peter

Reviewed by Richard Cederberg
Reviewed on August 12, 2006
Oh I can totally relate to thunder sounding like a funeral dirge sometimes. That was a great image!

And this is a very mysterious write. I can only see the image of the Dead Man Walking as being the end of the heat after the cool showers begin.

Powerful Karla ...

Richard Lloyd Cederberg

Reviewed by Dawn Richerson
Reviewed on August 12, 2006
fantastic image to combine with the terrible storm setting. nice work, Dawn

Reviewed on August 12, 2006
Whoa, Karla, this is chilling! Excellent imagery in this very vivid write; brava! Keep up the great writing; your poetry is going places! Very well done!

(((HUGS))) and much love, your twin sister, Karen Lynn. :D

Reviewed by Susan Sonnen
Reviewed on August 12, 2006
whoa, Karla! spooky...resigned...and well written to boot...

Susan

Reviewed by Mr. Ed
Reviewed on August 12, 2006
Powerfully chilling, Karla - and I wonder as we near the one year anniversary of Katrina, if that might be how some of its terrified victims felt.


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