Challenged Again

by Larry Chamberlin   Nov 12, 2014


If they think they'll take me
anytime in the next forty-eight hours
they'll find pain is growing in their
dispensable worthless guts,
for I've a lawless heart and a good aim;
like autumn leaves they'll be falling.

another Saffie challenge

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  • 9 years ago

    by Beautiful Soul

    I remember reading this poem and liked it a lot. First I must point out I love how you incorporate the title into the poem itself and saffies challenge, this is a very clever play on words. The interpretation of this poem could be a wide array of topics. I am going to state the obvious and go with a western, but I believe the metaphor is deeper than what it appears here. The first two lines remind me of "they can take me dead or alive, but I'll due fighting". But there is a confidence within yourself that you will not lose this fight. Maybe at a gunfight or in the court room? I noticed people saying you were a lawyer, so maybe you have a great deal of experience that you feel like you won't lose a case ( or in this case you could say being a lawyer is like being in a gunfight). You've got good aim (and a well prepared statement maybe?). And the other people will be falling like leaves. But this is the beauty of poetry there are so many ways that a poem can go. 5/5

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