“FORGIVENESS” with Voo @Pick-Apart Poetry with Barbara K., Silver Lining, and A-Rhodi
Greetings and welcome everyone for one more Pick-apart Poetry Challenge! First of all I’d like to say a welcome to “Silver Lining” (a.k.a. Cherie) as one of our new co-hosts for Pick-Apart. Please send her a “Hello” and “Thank you” for becoming part of the Pick-apart Team with Barbara K.!
“Silver Lining” (Cherie)
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For this month’s challenge we bring you a very special Guest Poet. She’s some one who I’ve been trying for months to get here and I am so pleased to finally have the opportunity!
I’ve been reading her writing for several years now and hope you find her as inspirational as I do. Please send a warm welcome to our featured guest poet straight from the “House of Voo”….
Voo!
Please take a few moments to view Voo’s Profile
And send her a friend request if you are not already a friend of hers.
Copy her url. and click open to read more of Voo’s poetry
http://www.friendburst.com/The_House_of_Voo_Too/
Here are some words about Voo from Voo:
“I am a poet from birth and a prophet to the Earth. I am spirit, soul and body and all woman. I am a gentle heart and an intelligent mind. I see far more than the average person. I am a loner and a stander in shadows. I have never fit in anywhere. I love poetry, and music and books and deep people. I love beautiful things and languages and places. I am fueled by passion and felled by rejection. I am a woman of dreams and a lover of all things romantic and wonderful. I am VOO.” -The House of Voo
About Me:
I was born and raised on a big farm in Tennessee. I started writing when I was about seven and my first poem was called JESUS IS THERE. Which is strange because I had no idea who Jesus was and which began my lifelong search for who He was and ultimately led me to a one-on-one encounter with Him and it changed my life. I wrote my first novel when I was 9 or 10 because I had run out of reading materials that summer and had read just about everything in the small town library so I decided to write my own book. It was called MYSTERY OF THE HAUNTED CAVE and the manuscript later got burned up when our family home burned to the ground.
I write because it pours out of my soul and I cannot stop it nor would I want to. I write because I am inspired to by many things. I never know what will inspire me, people, places, things, images, sounds……Writing is always an adventure for me because I never know what I will write or how it’s going to end. I cannot write on demand and am not good on collabs so I don’t participate in a lot of your forums for that reason. I have to be inspired to write by something beyond my control. It is a gift and I barely take credit for it but I am grateful for the gift that has added so much to my life, even to the point, of saving my life and my sanity, you could say.
I love writing for other people and about them, especially things I could not possibly know by natural means. That’s why I know my writing is a gift from God. It brings me joy to know that others find themselves in my poetry. It’s what I live for.
Thank you, Voo
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And now for our Challenge…Here are the Rules!
And below is our featured poem for our Challenge!
“Forgiveness”
By Voo
Lying in the darkness of my own undoing,
Memories like shards of glass pierce me
Like a thousand knives………
Cut me open, make me bleed tears,
Taunt me, tease me, torment me
With their awful, beautiful, unending voices
Until I beg for forgetfulness.
Such is the penance we all must pay
For living,
For building and destroying,
For taking and giving and loving
Another soul outside ourselves.
It is the price tag we never notice
Until the garment is soiled,
Or the item is stolen,
Or the article is crushed
Beneath the feet of an angry mob:
Those damned emotions that do more damage
Than the guns of war.
Unforgiveness is a cage
That holds prisoner the man that can’t forgive
Hurt is the key that locks the door,
Offense is the carpenter that builds the walls,
And anger is the cold hard steel of the bars.
What would it take to free me from this?
Captivity has been my terror and my comfort
How do I let go of the hand of sorrow,
Drop these chains and walk into the sun?
Beyond the darkness, clarity shouts with a tiny voice:
Loneliness is not my lover, solitude is not my friend
No one can set me free, not even God
I have to let go, I have to let go………..
The key is in my hands now where it has always been
And I feel it turning, hear it creaking from long disuse
The cage door opens and I walk out free
And unbroken, into the light
As I forgive.
By Voo
March 18, 2009
11:50 p.m.
(Remember Pick only 25 words to make your poem)
We hope you’ve enjoyed your time with us! We look forward
To seeing you again next month.
We thank you for sharing your poetry and comments with us.
We would so love you
To share a heart with us too!
Send us one!
Blessings and all our regards,
Cherie, Barbara K., and A-Rhodi
Please use this spot to send greetings to Voo and thank her for sharing her poetry with us! :love:
Good evening and welcome to “Pick-Apart Poetry.” I’m thrilled to be hosting with A-Rhodi and Cherie and thanks so much to Voo for sharing her eloquent and powerful poetry with us. It’s always an honor for me to read her work and doubly honored that she is sharing this piece with us. I hope you will all give this a try. Always a highlight of my month. ~barb~
I do love the challenge of trying . . . .
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ESCAPE
Escaping these bars,
these walls,
the darkness holding me;
that have made me
a prisoner of emotions,
a prisoner of me,
and into the freedom
beyond myself,
free from tears
and captivity,
freed from solitude
and sorrow,
and walking
unbroken
into the light.
(c) barbara kausteklis6-28-11
Hello Barbara Jon and Cheryl…I am so excited to be working along side such accomplished poets here on the CPC. What a wonderful privilege for us here to have Voo’s beautiful poetry to act as our Muse for the evening…. :love: :love:
Great blog, guys! Welcome Miss Cherie to helm with Miss Barbara…winning team. I adore the poem VOO!!!!!
http://youtu.be/v2bOt-QASEk
Trying to set the mood…still new at this….:)
OK…..this will work!!!!!
Hi Cherie! So great to see you hosting and I LOVE that pic of you in the intro! :love: :love:
Thanks for sharing this poem with our muses Voo! The PAP is always an extra challenge for me but I’ll get to working on sumpin as soon as I finish disconnecting our broken cable box LOL
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Take me my lover, free my soul
open with the key of forgiveness
the hand, my comfort, I can't let go
into the giving light…
silver lining c2011
cpc pic-a-part
muse/Voo's beautiful poetry
I Bleed
A CPC Pick Apart Poem by Sevenamagenta
(inspired by a poem by VOO)
The darkness of captivity unbroken
the cold chains of loneliness unending
hurt locks the door to comfort
turning the key of torment
I bleed angry
I hope this works…a song about forgiveness from my bestest friend on myspace…i will get her over here soon…she is just too busy right now! 🙂 Have a listen…it is beautiful! :love:
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my hands bleed
my emotions
soiled
beneath my feet
cold anger
my terror
no solitude
tiny voices
destroying
my soul
set free
these damned
memories…
silver lining c2011
cpc pic-a-part
muse/Voo's beautiful poetry
I challenged myself to not only do the 25 word PAP, but write the poem as the words came from Voo’s poem in order, and end up with a poem which was very different from Voo’s great write of personal recovery. I’m delighted with the result!
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SEEKING
Piercing like glass,
emotions stolen,
a caged prisoner
beyond crushed
I seek unbroken clarity,
a light that will free me
from this captivity
of unending solitude.
(c) barbara kausteklis 6-28-11
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Beyond darkness,
Unforgiveness shouts
Like a thousand knives
Forgetfulness, soiled
Beneath memories,
Creaking, lying,
I feel terror,
Torment,
Loneliness,
My lover
Is an angry mob.
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by Voo
June 28, 2011
10:10 p.m.
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Hey, all, I must run but I want to share one of my private home made videos that is posted on youtube:
INSTRUMENT OF PEACE as it goes along so well with the theme of my poem FORGIVENESS. I hope you enjoy it.
Goodnight and thank you all very much. Will check back later, hopefully. Voo
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Well….I am heading to the pillow….I will let the California Girl, Barbara, run the show for a while….be back in the morning….nite…. :love: :love:
A note from Sharonlee — sending her love and best wishes to everyone tonight.
I look forward to catching up again in the morning over coffee. It has been such a great evening. Looking forward to tomorrow. Night, All!
Hi Voo & all ..Have two new little ones from 10:30p to 4:30a So, schedule crazy right now..Here just late or early 🙄 Hugs :love:
Here is my answer to the 25 word Voo Challenge…No title, just Voo… :love:
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To forgive can heal your soul.
But it is harder than to say.
I should know for I have had to forgive many of those.
I’ve bleed through the pain trying to forgive.
I’ve cried rivers trying to forgive .
An sorrow came over me.
Then hate covered my soul.
Anger busted in my mind.
It took time.
I could not understand why I should forgive.
But then it hit me one day forgiveness was not for them but for my own sanity .
I now can let go after healing me.
But some things I can not let go.
And those are the ones that keep me in prison of my soul.
I wished forgiveness was easy to do.
But when you been hurt so badly it is hard to do.
Letting go is the hardest thing I know to do.
hello all.. welcome CHERIE!!! and Hello Voo and Barbara and Jon!
been not up to par.. don’t feel good enough to “THINK”
computer hurts my eyes .. so I did a forgive-ness one with some words
and more than 25! Hug’s and love the blog! Voo the write is very heart touching!
Voo-Barbara-Jon and Cherie
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written by MM-2011
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Awesome “Pick Apart” and video, Mary Margaret! I certainly hope you’re feeling better. Healing thoughts and prayers headed your way and Giant (((HUGS))) for my beautiful friend.
Hello everyone..Thank you Voo for your inspiring poem for us to pick apart. Welcome Cherie to the crew!
This is NOT about me but about someone I know that was abused as a child by her father.
“Unforgivable” indeed. Eloquent and powerful “Pick-Apart,” Michelle. Welcome today and thanks so much for your compelling words and presentation.
thought this is in the same category so posted it! Hug’s sweeties a post from LilJ’s
Eloquent and powerful indeed. Thanks so much, Mary Margaret! A treasure. An awesome presentation as well. An amazing image.
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OUT SIDE
Forgive
Walk out free
Unbroken
Into the light
No one can set me free
Beyond the darkness
Let go
Walk into the sun
Outside ourselves
Bettie Davis – 7/29/11
BUILDING WALLS
Forgetfulness
Captivity
Terror
Beyond the darkness
Comfort
Builds the walls
Beneath the feet drop these chains
The hand of sorrow
Walk out free
My lover
Bettie Davis – 6/29/11
SHUNT THE LIGHT
The light
It turning The cage door open
Unbroken
The key is in my hands
Cold hard steel of the bars
Set me free
As I forgive
Bettie Davis — © June 29 , 2o11
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LOST
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Crushed
Lock the door
Prisoner
Voices
Memories
Lying in the darkness
Thousand
Cut me open
Taunt me tease me torment me
Those damned emotions
Bettie Davis —- © June 29 , 2o11
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Thanks so much to everyone for making this such a wonderfully fun time. Thanks to Cherie and Jon and Cheryl and to all who contributed and participated. And big thanks to Voo for honoring us with her incredible poetry. You’re all amazing poets and wonderful friends. Giant Hugs to All. ~barb~
Double your pleasure, double your fun,
Don’t ask me how I accomplish this
but I am usually the silly one
that post works more than is fit
as soon as I am done writing it!
ok heres mine i have kept it down to 25 words, hope you like
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Lying in the darkness
we never notice
the item stolen,
the article crushed
angry damage
Captivity my terror
Beyond darkness
a tiny voice
The key