[stylist] the iceing on the cake

[Lynda Lambert]

I just read this tonight.
I reeks of addiction to me -
and what the reality of living with the disease is really like
to those who are involved with the disease and the destruction it brings to 
all.
that is my first impulse after reading it through one time.
I will re-read again tomorrow and think about it more then.

Lynda Lambert
104 River Road
Ellwood City, PA 16117

724 758 4979

My Blog:  http://www.walkingbyinnervision.blogspot.com
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com>
To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 9:46 PM
Subject: Re: [stylist] the iceing on the cake


>I like it.  The imagery is good!
> Barbara
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> Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. -- Carl Sandburg
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Andi
> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 7:16 PM
> To: 'Writer's Division Mailing List'
> Subject: [stylist] the iceing on the cake
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> I have decided to submit a poem to the list.  When you read it please keep
> in mind I am normally a positive person but this poem was me venting. 
> Also
> the words spelt wrong are not wrong in the context of this poem, I mean 
> the
> words the way they are written.  Another thing to consider is the fact 
> that
> my poems are free flow, I do not know how to write and rewrite and revise
> poetry the way I do with stories.  I wish I could because I could save a 
> lot
> more of my poems but my poems always lose their creativity when I try to
> revise them.  So the only editing I do is spelling and punctuation
> placement.  I realize that this means my poems will always be amateur and
> rough but if I do it any other way I end up having to pitch it.  When I
> write stories I revise them over and over and over again but my poems just
> are.
> I will attach it and paste it in to the body of the email so everyone can
> read it however they want.
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> The iceing on the cake
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> He bakes a cake to fool us all,
> With sweet sugar to hide the bitter taste,
> With flower to soften the hard certainty,
> And candy pieces to distract from our missing parts.
> He measures, pours, and stirs,
> He mixes and folds,
> We don't even remember the poison that "spilled,"
> In to the batter
> is so smooth,
> And it smells so good.
> Yes he baked us a cake,
> He spoon-fed us a taste,
> Hear and Their,
> When we understood his plot,
> He'd let the sugar mask intentions,
> Let our eyes fill with joy,
> Let our minds wonder,
> Were we wrong?
> Does he care?
> Maybe we misjudged him again?
> Or maybe he changed.
> We would smile and wave,
> Play his little game,
> Make him look good while he assembled his cake.
> We peer through layers of deceit of desert,
> At ourselves in the glass and what do we see?
> We were just the ends to his means.
> We sort through our confection battered lives,
> For some shred of truth,
> Some bit of love,
> Some core of sincerity,
> Some,
> Some,
> Some anything,
> But we were all fools,
> Wanting to believe,
> That he might help us, or be their in a time of need,
> We wanted to think that he baked for us,
> But we make up the layers,
> Our shattered hearts and broken dreams,
> He crushed, ground, and sifted,
> But we didn't want to se.
> We stand looking at the cake and know what he did,
> We hope that we're wrong,
> We try to believe,
> Then he brings out the iceing,
> So cold and and detached,
> He spreads it on thick,
> He smiles and laughs,
> But we feel the chill,
> We take a step back,
> We know that it's over,
> What ever we had,
> He can't be trusted,
> He isn't our dad.
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