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Array ( [sid] => 147707 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => Like A Missing Button [time] => 2009-01-29 18:56:53 [hometext] => Lost or an escapee? [bodytext] => I am who I am,
And that is what I will always be,
I'm quiet, hurt, and empty,
I'm a missing button on a coat,
A smile slowly fading,
A fire in the pouring rain,
A mid spring melting snowflake,
I'm a disaster waiting to strike,
I'm an overturned ship spilling its guts into the sea,
A tattered flag in the dying glory,
A conductor on a train moving slowly with a distant destination,
An anomaly among the anomalies,
I'm a kite in a hurricane,
A broken trolley in an abandoned town,
A dime under the sofa,
A piece of nothing - A piece of everything,
I'm a dime among nickels under the sofa,
A broken trolley to be restored in a historic town,
A kite flying through the open winds,
I'm an anomaly among the anomalies and damn proud of it,
A conductor on a train who knows life is not about the destination, but the journey that takes you there,
A tattered flag that can be sewed in the dying glory that can be mended,
I'm an overturned ship sharing all that it has to share with the world,
I'm a disaster that can be prevented,
A mid spring melting snowflake basking in the sun,
A fire in the pouring rain that never extinguishes,
A smile slowly returning,
I'm a button that broke free,
I'm listening, healing, and empty, ready to be filled,
I am who I am,
And that is what I will always be. [comments] => 2 [counter] => 262 [topic] => 19 [informant] => kismetkills [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 8 [ratings] => 2 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => InspirationalPoems )
Like A Missing Button

Contributed by kismetkills on Thursday, 29th January 2009 @ 06:56:53 PM in AEST
Topic: InspirationalPoems



I am who I am,
And that is what I will always be,
I'm quiet, hurt, and empty,
I'm a missing button on a coat,
A smile slowly fading,
A fire in the pouring rain,
A mid spring melting snowflake,
I'm a disaster waiting to strike,
I'm an overturned ship spilling its guts into the sea,
A tattered flag in the dying glory,
A conductor on a train moving slowly with a distant destination,
An anomaly among the anomalies,
I'm a kite in a hurricane,
A broken trolley in an abandoned town,
A dime under the sofa,
A piece of nothing - A piece of everything,
I'm a dime among nickels under the sofa,
A broken trolley to be restored in a historic town,
A kite flying through the open winds,
I'm an anomaly among the anomalies and damn proud of it,
A conductor on a train who knows life is not about the destination, but the journey that takes you there,
A tattered flag that can be sewed in the dying glory that can be mended,
I'm an overturned ship sharing all that it has to share with the world,
I'm a disaster that can be prevented,
A mid spring melting snowflake basking in the sun,
A fire in the pouring rain that never extinguishes,
A smile slowly returning,
I'm a button that broke free,
I'm listening, healing, and empty, ready to be filled,
I am who I am,
And that is what I will always be.




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Re: Like A Missing Button (User Rating: 1 )
by kye on Sunday, 8th March 2009 @ 05:29:01 PM AEST
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Your title grabbed my curiousity.

I don't think i've ever read a poem that encompassed buttons. Yet, it did what it was supposed to do---it gripped me for the emotional journey.

"A mid spring melting snowflake basking in the sun,
A fire in the pouring rain that never extinguishes,
A smile slowly returning,
I'm a button that broke free,"

That is glorious imagery...

Kie


Re: Like A Missing Button (User Rating: 1 )
by windowguy on Monday, 13th April 2009 @ 01:56:15 AM AEST
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Enjoyable read. Replete with images. Certainly plenty of food for thought.
Well done.




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