The Spirit of Accord
March 5, 2013 at 10:47 pm (history, literature, philosophy, Poems, poetry, politics, sociology, Stories) (adversaries, battle, conflict, debate, journey, life, love, poem, poems, poetry, relationships, retrospect, rhyme, rhyming)
Conjoined by circumstance, we were as twins,
collective fate upon respective dials;
you docked your pirate ship inside my lines
and blocked me with uncompromising sails.
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To square the round we drew our swords to fight,
inflicting wrath on anchored minds with spears;
decisions ground with sharp wit edged with spite,
in altercation boxed the other’s ears.
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In case you tried to sail I slung my stones,
and what I strove to build you ran to spoil;
you flared your nostrils, stamped upon my bones,
I danced on pins to pitch my burning oil.
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You curdled coffee with your sour grapes,
my rancid comments rattled down our time;
but now you’re gone I miss our fierce debates,
it seems as though your voice was also mine.

john said,
March 5, 2013 at 11:51 pm
I don’t want to like this, I want to click the “I freaking love this poem” button!
Julia, dear, brilliant! Please remember all us little people once you are (deservedly) famous for your incredible poetry.
Julia Dean-Richards said,
March 6, 2013 at 12:00 am
Hi there PenDragon. Thank you for the encouragement. This is pipeline poetry – I fed it in a week ago and it has just arrived at the other end.
reiterzblog said,
March 6, 2013 at 10:55 am
Horribly close to home for me this one Julia. Brilliantly well done. As the man said, remember us when you’re famous.
BTW di you send a copy of Snailbeach, or did you decide against it?
Julia Dean-Richards said,
March 6, 2013 at 4:37 pm
not yet – been incredibly busy, but will do soon x
Duncan Swallow said,
March 6, 2013 at 11:02 am
Yeah yeah made a cockup. Yes it was I who left reiterzblog’s comments. Could have sworn I’d logged out and come back in again as NRM. Lackaday
Ammon said,
March 10, 2013 at 6:14 am
Wow. I had to read it twice. I really felt the love-hate duel here.
Julia Dean-Richards said,
March 10, 2013 at 11:10 am
I think that is because the dilemma is very real to me – it is easy to run a way from stuff which is hard and potentially damaging, but maybe it is more useful to work through the challenge? Hmm.
julespaige said,
March 14, 2013 at 6:26 pm
This was a week of discord.
http://julesgemsandstuff.blogspot.com/2013/03/wwp-146-damned-either-way.html
I will try to hold my tongue so there will be no severing…
PJ said,
March 29, 2013 at 10:23 pm
Powerful stuff – I love the evocative imagery x
metonymy4u said,
April 11, 2013 at 9:53 pm
fantastic, again…!