Memories A Child Once Knew

Memories A Child Once Knew

Latitude vs. birds without wings,

I couldn’t even explain what she has been for my dreams.

I describe her from my first day grade books,

old pages of torn wounds that are bandaged

with World War II duct tape; and markers

that crosses out broken signatures left from past readers.

Can I describe her mind?

She's an old windup toy that rises up in time,

shapes of a faces that you can never misplace;

she's like an old bottle of wine past down from father to son, to mother to daughter.

A shadow walker that was define as her skin tone,

I never lied about her brown eyes she always kept in disguise.

Well let's skip the unfortunate things that we sing,

a folktale changed from A to Z reversed inside out its curse for you to see.

Backside words that openingly misguide the connect of sounds that I use to say,

those dyslexic shattered days of shaken hands and words on pages beginning to blurr.

I use to flip the book upside down letting the words run around,

but see I'm no clown cause the words drowned into a fountain of sound.

Sketch in my mind I got a little peek of her signs,

she was a real first grade hero on school books.

But when it came to my time I cried.

Words I that couldn't grasp the shape of there mass,

I blamed the syllables that wouldn't let me touch them;

the pronunciation loosens my lips I tried to twist my tongue but I utter the word bitch!!!

What should I say?

Broken noses and damaged bones,

a voodoo doctor could replay my image with runes;

as old as Kings and the ancestors to the England's Queen

Reenacting the massacres of six to one,

yet this wasn't Michelangelo's sixteen chapels;

but he painted me as well as he could.

You could play the flute with the left side of my esophagus,

play jazz with Humerus bones connected to

my tissue with my wrist attached to my Achilles,

and dress me with your grace shall you play my bass with my pelvis bone;

attached to my calf muscles and trapped in

bags with my veins bonded to my fingertips,

I hope you play me nice like a violin and gently rub me like clarinet players so often does.

Once things a child had knew gravity sucking components

with dust particle sinking into the crevices of my spine,

I hold tight as I choke on the over feeding;

my soul can't handle the music you devour ever evening.

It was business not personal,

the clinch of thirst that dried the valleys vast in size

I held tight together, reminded me of lips.

The series of overlapped of hips,

as a kangaroo jabbed statuses I call tattoos into my thick tights I call bricks.

The dirty fermented aroma left behind from the tireless stench of curfews,

I used to hear her call; a motherless voice that use to pause.

The church bells tearing up my wishing wells,

I used to hear the courage in my lion but the Romans killed her in hell.

OK, I had my fun but it's time for me to get back to the script.

I remembered her faces from the days of pages,

those fallen letters spelling out ayam revered backward.

And a upside-down actress often played in crossword puzzles,

she shook the little boys, who used to beat me until I made noise.

They liked the sound of their windup toy they use to adore,

I was a different type of music instrument that day; I guess I was a whore.

Saved me the pain that memories seem to bring,

what made me into the person you see before you; they call us men.

She showed me what a mother’s love looked like.

A sorrowing bird in the clouds with golden tip feathers,

she showed me how to be a brother.

She taught me how my father the philosopher and nature raised me,

but she taught me my own distinct abilities to

make my own poems of different statures.

So I was asked what has Maya Angelou done for me?

She re-birthed me into a skin I could call a home.

Comments

Soulae

9 years ago

Woah! Definitely an intelligent poet. This is so descriptive. I know this poem would be powerful spoken. Poets like you inspire me to never give up and challenge myself to be more descriptive and tell stories with deep meanings. Great job. Check some of my poems when you get the chance.

Mafi Grey

9 years ago

Thank you, I was just hoping to see if I still had it. It's been a few months and I couldn't seem to find anything to write about. Why and what should I write about, if I should stop or continue? I worked hard on it cause I wanted this to be better than the rest, I'm always seeking to do the next best thing for me. Sometimes a poet can tell when he has nothing left to give to the world but then he can find another path to many more things. My old poetry I wrote in the beginning has nothing more to say but all the new ones I wrote this year has a lot of stories to be read.

I write for me to read my own work, but I find it questionable upon my own opinons. I need to hear others questions and answers, to see what I need to express next. I also love your work as well and I hope me and you write many more great poems to come.

Quiknodda17

9 years ago

Powerful indeed I like your art

Mafi Grey

9 years ago

Thank you, feel free to check out my other work because as you took your time out of your day I will read you peoms. Thank you for you time, I'm humble to have special people reading my art.

bookworm1135

9 years ago

Wow! You truly have a talent for the abstract poem. While I'm here, thank you for taking the time to comment on my poems you read. I really appreciated you, not only taking the time to read them, but comment on them as well. It was very encouraging. Thank you!

Mafi Grey

9 years ago

Thank you and your welcome. Sometimes when I'm writing I never know if it will reach people, so I write for myself to get inspired every time I read them. Well your poems are really good and we should all give the chance to another and take our time out to read some of their work. Yet don't forget that this place makes us relate to each other as not strangers but as fellow artist and poets. Great work, keep it and let me know of my work as I will you. I just hope that my work can teach someone something new or inspire someone or even save a life or two in the process...

Grant-Grey Porter Hawk Guda

7 years ago

Powerful expression. Always let poetry fill your life. Keep expressing your heart.

Emily._.dawn

6 years ago

You're so good :'( I wish I had your talent. Never give up writitng. You're such an inspiration and I love to read what you write about. You do you, BooBoo. Mine isn't even half as good as yours. I love you and all your work. Thank you for sharing your gift hun <3

Mafi Grey

5 years ago

Thank you so much Emily, it's been awhile since I've been on here. If you have an IG, follow me at Mafi_Grey

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Memories A Child Once Knew