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a metaphoric headache

by Maria Massarella

Photobucket I stepped into
the Arizona of a headache
- took a look around -
my vision filled with its
seemingly endless
horizons
and
knowing it be
a state
delineated its contours
with my roaming
minds eye

On looking skyward
my spirit
devoured
by the urge
to soar
planed
on a distant star
and
gazing
upon Earth below
contemplated
the arizonian space
from a
different
perspective

What
once
appeared be
an immeasurable
headache
is reduced to
pulseless dry
when un-
nurtured
it cannot
thrive
Photobucket A pain
that is dry
is a pain
on the
mend
just
the
remnant
scar silent
traces its
pas
s
i
n
g
.
.
.

Photobucket


m.a




03/28/2011

Author's Note: source of inspiration:
Photobucket"I have a headache the size of Arizona; but it’s a dry pain." ~jadiPhotobucket

Posted on 03/30/2011
Copyright © 2024 Maria Massarella

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Sandy M. Humphrey on 04/04/11 at 10:02 PM

I had that same headache last week but mine was lacking in poetry. I have missed your wonderful expressive beauty in words. smh

Posted by Ken Harnisch on 04/07/11 at 12:35 PM

What amazes me is how this poem evolved from but a line, a snippet...awesome, beautiful work..but what else is new from your pen, poetess?

Posted by Clara Mae Gregory on 04/07/11 at 07:12 PM

I love the descriptions....such a pleasant read.

Posted by Elizabeth Jill on 04/08/11 at 11:17 PM

"when un-nurtured it cannot thrive" ~ how true.

You've created a healing Mariaism from a one of those delightful JDisms! Totally cool :)

Posted by Quentin S Clingerman on 04/09/11 at 05:23 PM

Does this fit with dry heaves which I am having! A headache by anyother name still rankles! A most interesting take off on a jadiism.

Posted by JD Clay on 04/14/11 at 01:25 AM

What I like most about this protracted thought is the process in which it transforms. It moves from possibility, to reality, to vision, to spiritual, to ethereal, and ultimately back from space with poetic flare that only m.a can deliver. I know you’re going to say it was my words that inspired you but inspiration being what it is, you are truly the source.

Posted by Laurie Blum on 04/18/11 at 03:53 PM

Wonderfully written. Congrats on POTD Maria.

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