The Story's Outlet

[Black Wolf's Blood]

A long absence of words
From heart to hand to paper
A desert drought
soon to be flooded
with a thunderstorm of
ink and letters
A writer is an artist
as is a photographer a painter a singer
While a writer
writes away their pain
in a flurry of ink, keystrokes, and words
A dancer embodies their pain
The entirety of their being
a unique moving feeling living sculpture
A tool to tell the story
The reason for their hearts to ache
and bleed and cry
As a painter portrays their pain
with a flow of angry brushstrokes
The dancer embraces their pain
Holds it tight before
shoving and pushing and thrusting it out
through the swift and graceful
motions of their pirouettes sautes attitudes
Poets novelists writers tell the readers a story
Takes a hold of that pain and
paints a beautifully haunting rush
of words dancing across the page in
a graceful embodiment of
things their holding deep inside
We grieve with our words
Showing the world a picture
that sings of our experiences
Watch me now
Watch closely
The loss of a loved one
is not truly lost
For we hold them close to our hears
Share those feelings with others
Letting our stories
love loss grief pain anger happiness
dance and flourish across
and through the readers' hearts
in hopes that they may know
Someone out there
Another other than yourself knows
What you're going through
What you've been through
And it's okay
So sing write paint
Dance away your pain
And know that there are
others that do as well


© Black Wolf's Blood 7/23/14

[Black Wolf's Blood]

I wasn't sure where to put this one or what to call it (I was thinking 'A Dancer is to a Writer' but that sounded moderately ridiculous).

Hello again, it has been quite some time! I actually can not remember the last time I wrote a poem. Maybe a year? Probably between a year to two years. So seeing as it has been an immensely long time and I am slightly out of practice, please don't go easy on me - if you think it is terrible tell me so and why so I may learn from my mistakes for the future.

And I would love to hear from all my old friendly poets I have on here! :D

Much respect,
BWB

[DarleneG]

You write abut loss in a beautiful way. And it's true everyone handles it differently. If you are writing from personal experience, I am so sorry for your loss. And getting some of the pain out through writing gives release, like taking the lid off a pressure cooker. I, too, suffered losses, many, since I am older and the loss of family members and friends happens. But my greatest loss was of my 13 year old son, Gary, who died from cystic fibrosis. I wrote many poems before and after he died. One of them was: "God, you've picked so many daisies,/ must you have them all?/ Daisy, my Daisy,/ I watch the petals fall!" While he was alive, I wrote funny children's poems to make him laugh. ( He was home from school a lot from illness, so I tried my best to entertain him. When he was first diagnosed at age 3, I was sitting by his hospital bed and as he slept, I started to cry. I reached into my purse for a tissue and instead my fingers wrapped around a pen. I pulled it out and took it as a sign that God waned me to use the outlet of writing to handle my grief. The first poem I ever wrote was sitting by his hospital bed that day. ("Not MY Son!) which was later published in E. Kubler Ross' book "On Children And Death." Thanks for letting me share.

[Black Wolf's Blood]

My condolences on your loss, DarleneG, and thank you for sharing and many thanks on your kind words regarding my work. :) While I have had loss in my life, this particular piece was not for me as in about MY loss, but for others who have lost.

[kimmyjean]

Beautiful piece. A title I am at a loss. It will come to you at the right time. Again beautiful piece

Love and peace
Kimmy

[Black Wolf's Blood]

Many thanks, Kimmy! Yes, I hope to get a title for it soon. :)

Much respect,
BWB

[frozentears]

wow! This was just breath taking! Awesome write! Just the first few words had me wrapped in! As for a title, I would go with something simple like "Outlet" or "The Story"... I don't know, those were two that popped in my head as I read...

[Black Wolf's Blood]

Thank you, Frozen, I'm very glad you liked it. I like your ideas and see why they would come to mind. What are your thoughts on 'The Story's Outlet' or some such? No? Yes?

[frozentears]

Perfect! You just tied my thoughts together!

[Black Wolf's Blood]

Done and done. :D

[frozentears]