Feeling Like Insects

by Cooper   May 14, 2008


As a palm is outstretched,
yellowed and whispering of age
between the wrinkles in stolen pupils,
attraction is distributed among the weak
and the younger;
young ones

younger than spiders beneath your palm,
and breathing without anguish,
you wonder if they feel.

Like the webs of unreasonable imaginations
(bedtime stories eating children)
that intertwine the wise and the stupid,
caterpillars crawl beneath your foreheads
and butterflies flutter in your stomach ...
... do they feel?

But I clench my fists, now,
hiding cautionary maggots
so people won't spit on them as they die;
I am crawling
and you are crawling farther,
only just out of, and to, reach
breeding grounds that teach us how to feel.

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  • 15 years ago

    by Renee

    I liked this is was really good...
    considering the fact that i feel so awkward right now..stupid chorus.. Never sing in high school you get to wear awesomely awfull outfits

  • 15 years ago

    by NyellMoonlight

    Profound and powerful from the beginning to the end. I think that you managed to convey your message excellently through the poem.
    I like the beginning, it is vivid and interesting, filled with greatly described images. The third stanza is my favorite one, I like your descriptions there a lot, also, it is truly deep. The ending stanza is great, too, because it summed up the poem fantastically and it contains an amount of overwhelming emotions and thoughts.

    - (bedtime stories eating children)-
    &&
    -caterpillars crawl beneath your foreheads
    and butterflies flutter in your stomach ...
    ... do they feel?-
    ^^^
    Stunningly brilliant. I love those lines, there is something irresistibly original and powerful about them.

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