Stone Soup Croutons is a weekly poem I write using lines and impressions picked from Stone Soup Poetry's open mic readers and features. I figure out a title (and sometimes the rest of the poem) later. You can read the other ones I've done since 2015 here.
I also have an award nominated book out now collecting the best of my first year of poems. Click here to purchase it.
Thank you, Patricia Carragon, for your feature this past Wednesday. Poetry under the pain of summer heat brings out some interesting results. That's all I have to say today. Thanks for reading.
Asking for a Damned Soul
What happens to rocks
that only understand
the language of being
thrown through a window?
What kind of truth
forces someone's pen
to cross out pages,
How terrifying is it
for a murderer to find
someone who wants
to understand them?
Is mercy a bus
with broken seats
that no one stays on
for very long?
Too much mercy,
too much hate, which
soul will die first
soul will die first
from self-abuse?
Who stands in line
the longest going
upward, waiting
to be absolved?
Are there protests
outside Heaven's Gate
crying absolution
is not enough?
Will there be those
who chose to stay
inside the earth
on Judgement Day?
Can two saved still
be jealous of each other?
How can two hearts be
both sheltered yet homeless?
Can a family legacy
be translated to what
future generations
need to hear?
When do we stop
telling the tales of
all our tagalong ghosts
who scare our stories away?
Special thanks to Jon Wesick, Bil Lewis, Jan Rowe, Carol Weston, Mary Jennings, Ptr Kozlowski, C.C. Arshagra, Linda Lerner, Nanc7 Dodson, Coleen Houlihan, Cindy Hochman, Mignon Ariel King, James Van Looy and Patricia Carragon.
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