Eileen Prunster

Eileen Prunster Oct 2012

bitterness
fills her mouth
a paralizing numbness
courses through her veins
as if
shes bitten
a suicide ampoule

Eileen Prunster Oct 2012

A lost child
takes you all the way
and beyond
for
no matter what others tell you
of hope
urge you to strength
you are already over the threshold
into the grey land of loss
of grief
of living death

feelings on being dragged back
from that land
joy
gratitude
happiness painful in intensity
compounded by bewilderment
resentment
at being returned to that state
where crossing that threshold
still remains
a possibility

When I was a teenager my mother gave birth to an unplanned baby (a red haired girl) who died within minutes of being born (spina bifida) it took her a very long time to "come back" from an almost zombied state

Eileen Prunster Oct 2012

Red light

young girl
crosses the road
wearing enough
vibrant
red
lipstick
to stop traffic
she knows
***
has no timetable
many a man
has an appitite
for more than a sandwich
at lunchtime

Eileen Prunster Oct 2012

Cottage Garden

Spring sunshine's loving glance
lights a repondant glow
in all things young
but she is not so kind
to the old
where man has been
exuberant nature is evidenced
in decline and decay
riotous hedgerows
unpruned trees
lank lawns
while nature prepares
to don Easter finery
the best you'll get from man
is shabby genteel

Eileen Prunster Oct 2012

Don't rush!

i fell
last week
onto
concrete
craked ribs i think
either way
sore
oh how i
swore

slipped on slick, wet, painted steps i've beeen meaning to fix with a rough surface for a few yrs...

Eileen Prunster Oct 2012

please add

i'm looking at getting a global map up
with all the addys of everyone who responded
pinpointed somehow
just for fun
probably take awhile
anyway thats what I'd like to do
will link it when it's done

when i say pinpointed i mean in an abstract way without detail? of address just a general position...
suddenly realized this idea sounds like it is breaching others privacy but didn't mean I'd put actual addresses up, just general area in whichever area, state, country, etc...
Feedback please....
anyone wanting to be left off......
it will be general not specific
only naming which state?
with your name (first only?)
Jesus this gets complicated....

Eileen Prunster Oct 2012

our talks

im kind of hoping
all this excruciating
humiliating
soul laid bare stuff
is leading us to a more honest place
otherwise....

i was writing something else and it slipped away