Heavy handed

HannahElisabeth


Notice of absence from HannahElisabeth
Taking a long overdue mental health vacation. I will check in when I can.

 

It was meant to be art, you said

I add to my list

Another questionable decision

Like a needle in too deep,

Left with blown out lines and bleeding ink

Scabs still healing, scars revealing

Nothing close to a masterpiece

Another whimsical idea ruined

Like a cheap tattoo

  • Author: HannahElisabeth (Offline Offline)
  • Published: September 11th, 2021 17:34
  • Comment from author about the poem: This was meant to be a more lighthearted take on questionable choices and love lost. Just like my cheap tattoos, I still don't regret the stories they tell and the lessons learned. Investing in quality tattoo artists being one of them...
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  • dusk arising

    One reason I never had a tattoo on my body not so beautiful..... i have witnessed too many blemishes which once were good intent upon bodies around me.

    • HannahElisabeth

      I was young and naïve when I got mine... Definitely waiting for the right time to get the rest of the art I want. I still enjoy my silly cheap ones though.

    • Doggerel Dave

      Got to give this one the big miss - sorry, Hannah yer Uncle Dave understands nothing here....

      • HannahElisabeth

        Lol that is officially what I'm calling you in the dedication 😂

        Basically, heavy handed tattoo artists make the line work bleed (and also read like brail in some cases thanks to scar tissue) and a play on words with heavy handed "love" that was "meant to be art" according to a certain nameless pronoun.

        P.S. don't be late or dinner, or lunch, or whatever it is when the time comes. I still don't know how old that quip is, best I got was 200 years or so 🤷

        • Doggerel Dave

          Thanks for your comprehensive response to my somewhat slim effort.

          Focus here is on your last para (I lay the first two to rest gently..) Only additional info I need to supply is that an uncle of mine (many moons ago) repeated that joke every time and at every available opportunity.... my toes curled up as I heard it coming....uncles have to be so careful.....

          • HannahElisabeth

            Now I'm completely in the dark about that last bit...

            • Doggerel Dave

              I heard that joke once or twice ..a lot...much too often....

              And I don\'t mind just being called Dave - I will manage to put up with the informality... 😊

            • L. B. Mek

              I choose to believe
              so long as we still invest, in hope
              all our mistakes add up
              to amalgamate, as our future's epic..
              (sorry I thought you were taking a break so didn't know to check for any new write's
              just so your name on coyotes poem today and checked)



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