AuthorsDen.com   Join | Login    
Where Authors and Readers come together!

SIGNED BOOKS    AUTHORS    BOOKS    SAMPLE CHAPTERS    AUDIOBOOKS    eBOOKS    STORIES    ARTICLES    POETRY    BLOGS    NEWS    VIDEOS    SUCCESS    TESTIMONIALS

Featured Authors:  Margaret Mullings, iValerie Boggess, iR.E.E.S Blogs Linda Smith, Publisher, i RickthePoetWarrior, iSusan Smith, iWilliam Potter, iPamela Ackerson, iDonald Beaulieu, iMatt Miller, iDebashish Haar, i

  Home > Family > Poetry        Popular: Books, Stories, Articles, Poetry        Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z     

Lynette N Bat-Abba

 Follow Me  

· Contact Me
· Poetry
· Stories
· Blog
· 38 Titles
· 105 Reviews
· Save to My Library
· Share with Friends!
·
Member Since: Aug, 2009

Lynette N Bat-Abba, click here to update your pages on AuthorsDen.



Desideratum
by Lynette N Bat-Abba → (All Poetry by Lynette N Bat-Abba)
   Rated "G" by the Author.
Share   Print  Save   Follow   Share on Facebook


Poem Artwork

 

“Must you be so conspicuous?

God, make her quiet!” my parents prayed.

“Go placidly….”    I read one day

Was that a joke?

I am the rabbit in a pit-bull’s cage

The rogue Witch in a Christian parade

A Banjo while the symphony played

Illiterate child

Educated by listening, watching

Afraid

To be anything more than quietly placid

The Queen Ann’s lace beneath sweet William’s face

Rare to flower, often just weed

Invasive of perfect gardening space

A beggar of life eating dirt to survive

Amid the noise and haste still alive.


Want to review or comment on this poem?


Need a FREE Reader Membership?


 Reviews of "Desideratum"
Reviewed by Regis Auffray
Reviewed on September 26, 2009
Powerfully open, honest, and thus very effective and meaningful, Lynette. Thank you for sharing of your "self." With respect and love and best wishes,

Regis

Reviewed by Richard Cederberg
Reviewed on September 13, 2009
Love the imagery in this Lynnie - stark and potently personal.
All of us struggle to be us. The fragility of our earthen vessels is at times off-set by the strength we are given to persevere in a world that continually tries to destroy us.

Eventually, despite the influences our parents and whatever else charmed us, or infuriated us, in those days, life and struggling and admitting our mortality and recognising the Higher Power and pressing into His Light will allow the artist in us to blossom and will help mold us into the vessels that (hopefully) we were originally intended to be.
Blessings ...


New Poetry by Lynette N Bat-Abba
Popular Poetry (Family)
  1.  Grandma's Music Box
  2.  Sweet 16 Birthday Words of Wisdom
  3.  I wish tomorrow had never come
  4.  The Child In Me
  5.  Christian Mothers
  6.  My Sister's Birthday Poem (85 Years)
  7.  A Fathers Love
  8.  Dolores
  9.  Happy New Year 2021 to the Den
  10.  Tears
  11.  Lucy...
  12.  Familial Hearts and Friends...
  13.  My Hand-me-Downs
  14.  Nealey Brown, A New Angel
  15.  We'll Miss You Forever Fee
  16.  Happy Birthday dad
  17.  What A Man!
  18.  Things That Give Me Life
  19.  A Father's Love
  20.  My Special Mom
Free Book Review Program
Select a book to read and review today!

Willow Tree by Jeanne Buesser

A sweet story book about life lessons. Here is the link below www.createspace.com/4982595  
Member BookAds

FREE DOWNLOAD The Suffering of Being Kafka by Sam Vaknin

A second volume of short stories and poetry by Sam Vaknin.  
Member BookAds

Little River by Dadfire

Let this coming of age story of a boy named Bean take you back to a simple time. Set in a small southern town in the 1960's, encircled by a river and gleaming white cotton fields.  
Member BookAds