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Celine Berghmans (August 21 1990 / Belgium)
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...But Wait! ...

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  Your waiting wire is stretching dangerously
ready to release the tenson -
the sign of easing tension is not gone;
as our worlds grow further and further apart!

A waiting wire is like the queue in a
supermarket or a queue to use the...
...what is it called? -
the loo!
'You still feel the same don't you? '
'Nothing ever changes; ...
...but wait...'

The pause and distance is getting wider
like pregnancy expanding in the middle.
The pain grows, grows
vaster then the waiting wire.
No more phone calls -
just a silence at my end of the line
and then pops out chat and ends with:
'bye my lil girl'.
Not reassuring:
multiplying of agony increases,
I can't get rhough another day
of this hurt...
...in my spine.

The waiting wire is like an
umbilical cord;
big; strong; flexiable:
(unlike me) -
stretching all the way from
Slovakia to the UK
and now your image is...
just a faint glimmer:
in my memory.

Celine Berghmans


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  Ben Gieske  (8/20/2009 6:56:00 PM)

Poetry helps us wake up and see things differently. You accomplish that aspect of poetry. There is always more things hidden in your poems that are not immediately apparent to me. I need to reread them to find the other and deeper meanings.
  Lee Crowell  (6/4/2009 4:41:00 PM)

he shoudn't have kept you waiting
but then again, I avoid lengthy phone conversations like the plague
when someone wants to communicate with me, I get the message much easier when I can read their eyes and face at the same time
damn... this poem is making me think!
mission accomplished Celine
  David Desantis  (10/2/2008 1:30:00 PM)

hahah i've never seen your stuff but i really enjoy! Very quirky sense of humor you have (much like myself) ..this has sadness in it, but still retains a light hearted feel...very very cool, i'd like to hear your feedback on some of my work.

-david
  Amy  (9/19/2008 4:42:00 PM)

cool poem, some things are worth waiting for :) keep writing
  Shalini Kts  (9/4/2008 5:46:00 AM)

waiting is really painful but reading your poems is delightful..
  Ashraful Musaddeq  (8/30/2008 3:36:00 AM)

Yes, waiting is the most painful situation. The wall of the waiting is very wide.
  M M  (6/26/2008 7:11:00 AM)

Your poem seems to be built with an increasing intensity. After an 'introduction', the third stanza explodes to give the climax of the atmosphere of pain and tension - fast unbearable.
The pain of the waiting is very well depicted...
A very well written poem!
10
  Antony Mndawe  (6/23/2008 10:20:00 AM)

dificult to understand, but its cool.
  Melvin Banggollay  (6/10/2008 10:49:00 PM)

Wait, but I can't wait to tell this is another wonderful poem so full of suspense. thanks for sharing,
melvin

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