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A Prayer - Poem by Aria Siren

Thick skinned hands peeling like potatoes
If I...
Pull them back
Slowly remove these layers
Of dirty skin
Smelling of earth and rain and sage
I find the sin
The damp unlit room
Covered over by palms tight
Clasped in the middle
Hidden in the folds
Of those hands


Poet's Notes about The Poem

A challenge from another poet to base a poem around something simple and unpoetic: a potato. The whole poem stemmed from that first line.

Comments about A Prayer by Aria Siren

  • Yash Shinde (3/23/2014 11:55:00 PM)


    ...amen, may this beautiful prayer of your cleanse us of all our sins... (Report) Reply

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  • (5/19/2013 2:04:00 PM)


    A clever use of image to reveal an essence we all share. (Report) Reply

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  • Patricia Grantham (3/14/2013 5:00:00 PM)


    This s a very heart warming poem. I can truly say an Amen! to this piece of work.
    Short but well penned. Thanks.     (Report) Reply

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  • (2/19/2013 9:40:00 AM)


    The poem tends to bend towards the consiousness of the Spirit of grace in you? With the body, old and experienced in a warm life of mercy. Rough but not bitter, even a cooked potato.. haha! (Report) Reply

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Poem Submitted: Thursday, September 6, 2012

Poem Edited: Friday, September 7, 2012
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