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Life’s Journey

A Poem From Barbara Kasey Smith’s Corner Of The World

Life like barren limbs…
weather beaten, warped and worn
a nuisance in a field of daisies
memories pure as gold.
Survival robs a body of its form
brings humbleness to a soul.

A display of hollow, bare twigs
undressed, dormant and needing renewal.
Exposes the harshness breathing brought
to a foundation once strong and full of strength.
Struggles and temptations not kind to its frame
flaccidity steals a muscular well-built physique.

A human left standing among elements
brings decay, destruction and wear
sucks out its physical power, resistance and resolve
to deplete a life once vibrant and strong
leaves a human waiting for the power
from a higher authority to keep them heroic.

Life like barren limbs…

Writer Barbara Kasey Smith – Copyright 2013 – Use by Permission Only.
Barbara’s New Book Recently Released, “Jailbait,” Available at lulu.com, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble.Com.

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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