Johnny Cash's Train Ride(Wreck)

Ramblings

Kat V
I don't know what the writing exercise is called where you listen to something and then write without stopping or thinking, but this is it. It's more about Johnny Cash's rollercoaster of a life and not my own. Overall, I live a happy life. Like I said, I wrote it non-stop, so nothing is deliberate.

You're welcome at the Home of the Blues
Live one day in my downtrodden shoes

Dreaming up rounds of excuses
Lamenting my self-made abuses

Perpetual misery resides in this soul,
Asking a higher power to make my mind whole

The dreamers in the Heavens have excuses
For creating me and my self-made excuses

Once you empathize you're locked in like lye
Scarring potential until its unrecognizable

Lay in the moonshine so dear
It hides the choice of divine lies!

My pride resigned after the age of 9
Locked up without pills to choke on

My soul is large and loves Home
My Home is small and laments life

My life is God though it hits hard
Downtrodden shoes worn at all hours

Twenty-four seven in a Hell I wish were Heaven
And a poem without end

Compensates my loss of friends
Too courageous to admit

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  • dog1/30/2009

    i dont!

  • Kerry3/25/2008

    I love this, and Johnny Cash was an awesome soul. Thanks

  • Sheri Fresonke Harper3/8/2008

    Nice to meet another poet, I love it :) Sheri

  • Bert E. Jean2/28/2008

    Now I don't have to see his movie biography. No, that's a bad idea. This is good work.

  • mamalav2/19/2008

    Nice work.

  • Penny Molinario2/10/2008

    This piece definitely paints a clear picture of Johnny Cash's life.

  • Eclectic Muse2/4/2008

    Great exercise! Great read!

  • Lauren Smith Janzen2/2/2008

    I like the idea of this writing exercise. Interesting stuff.

  • Cheryl Loux1/31/2008

    Nice work.

  • T2Bedlam1/29/2008

    Very good poem. Makes me want to write like that again. That was my love in school. Others had hotrod magazine and I had poetry books!

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