Scaled.
Bulwarking their keep-out message
thick walls
shout a menace as warning.
Herald of fear in days gone by
a fortress
brooked no breaching at all.
Traits of pride raise no less
fencing against
surrender by selfish haste.
Yet fixed mindscapes built to
breed distance fall
if scaled by love's alteration.
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Author:
Fay Slimm. (
Offline) - Published: June 11th, 2022 05:21
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I love this use of the ambiguity in the concept of alteration - yours is a challenge to Shakespeare's. I like the fortress allegory and the idea that the castle falling can be a very good thing.
"Too true" he shouted over a wall thick and high, long overgrown with brambles of neglect.
ah' but ya can't keep a good man down ...................................... x
Good write Fay.
The 'scale' - font size, or rather spacing, of my poems has gone funny. Not fixed it yet.
Love can conquer many things, and walls are the least to fall. Walls are inherently evil, when constructed through hate. None have ever accomplished their intended purpose, not Hadrian's Wall, nor the Great Walls of China, not the Berlin Wall.
Your poem suggests exactly why they failed. Love. - Phil A,
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