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Heartaches

Voices.

Poetry From The Heart

Heartaches
pains, yens, sorrows, miseries, woes
torn, pierced, scarred
blisters as memories fester
it cannot be patched, cured or repaired
nothing lightens the tenderness.

Heartaches
butchers a soul
a crux of dying roots
thrashes searching for serenity
solitude, melancholic, and glum
prays and pauses for a renewal.

Heartaches
tricks the mind into annihilation
teases the heart into fearing “no” cure
desolate, fruitless, and crumbling
old ship wreckage left to sink
vanishing amid the breakage of the sea…

leaves a shell without a nucleus or mortality.

Barbara Kasey Smith is the writer of this poem – Copyright 2015 – Use by Permission Only.

Barbara K. Smith: Barbara Kasey Smith was born in Affinity, West Virginia. She was raised in a coal-mining town of Crab Orchard, West Virginia. Barbara worked for the federal government for thirty-one plus years. She enjoys reading, writing, the theater and her family and friends. Barbara loves to write poetry and opinion articles and she has been published in several anthologies, magazines, and Internet reviews. She has had four books published. She enjoys her husband and Jack Russell terrier, Miss Daisy, to be in the room as she writes because it gives her the feeling it enhances her ability to attain her best writing moments.
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