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Peggy Eldridge-Love

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Posted on Thursday, July 03, 2003 - 12:17 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

LIBERIA

They hid your secrets in the fold of your skirt,
painting you with confusion, teaching you
to deal from the bottom of the deck
cards of genocide. Reverse psychology?
Casting you off these shores, unwanted,
despised, to return to your mother
and treat her as though she were your whore.

©Peggy Eldridge-Love 2003
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N'rituall

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Posted on Thursday, July 03, 2003 - 01:09 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Damn, oh double damn...

Peggy, the poem is tight. Sounds personal and it carries depth. PLEASE, feel free to hit us off with MORE!!! PLEASE!

Now this poem is an e-tag...
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Peggy Eldridge-Love

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Posted on Thursday, July 03, 2003 - 11:04 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Thank you, N'rituall.
Peggy

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