The Web Poetry Corner
DreamMachineThe Web Poetry Corner is a Dream Machine Site
The Dream Machine --- The Imagination of the World Wide Web
Google

The Web Poetry Corner

Melanie Conine

of

Yorba Linda, CA, US

Home Authors Alphabetically Authors Date Submitted Authors Country Submission Rules Feedback

If you have comments or suggestions for Melanie Conine, you can contact this author at:
willy@dreamagic.com (Melanie Conine)

Find a book store near you, no matter where you are located in the U.S.A.!

Cerzan

...the best independent ISP in the Twin Cities

Gypsy's Photo Gallery

to me alone

by

Melanie Conine

why am i so all alone?
no one can hear me,
no one will try.

they think that i'm just angry or crazy,
and all i can do is scream or cry.

i wish that they were right about it,
i wish that i was able to see

what's wrong with me, am i insane
or will they just have to learn to love me?

iron

by

Melanie Conine

i know i am lost.
i know i am torn and confused -
the tears flow,
unbidden
in thick, cool streams.
the gray creeps in
around my heart
like a foggy mist
with bony fingers -
raking across the
fleshy surface
picking at scars and
wrinkles,
making wounds old
and new
bleed like one.
so i bind up my heart
with iron restraints,
willing it not to
break.
i wait in pain and
silence
for the burning
to be gone -
for the metal to become
hard and cold
when i will feel
no more.