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(Message started by: Frank_W on Sep 15^th, 2005, 12:45pm)

Title: Drowned (photo/subject matter warning)
Post by Frank_W on Sep 15^th, 2005, 12:45pm

http://www.imagecrown.com/images/Jeepgun/drowned2.jpg

Drowned

Dreaming into a
shadowed snowbound forest
Immersed up to my neck in a glacial
river coursing pearl-black against its stark banks.
My sister behind me in the current
Turning to greet her but without a word
she shoves me under
I scream a torrent of bubbles
fight for the surface to break through and
hear the tilting trees and bleached sky screaming too before
gaining no more than a gasp as
water floods into my mouth and nose
Pushed under again
Chest burning
Struggling weaker
darker
surrendering to black ice filling my lungs and
collapsing into the silent bottomless void that opens beneath me.

-Frank H. Weeden

Title: Re: Drowned
Post by ArCane on Sep 15^th, 2005, 1:26pm

Awesome as always Franks. That picture is freaky as hell [smiley=laugh.gif].

Title: Re: Drowned
Post by LeLimey on Sep 15^th, 2005, 1:29pm

Well I wish you'd put up a warning before posting stuff like that. Some of us have PC's in rooms are kids are in

Title: Re: Drowned
Post by Frank_W on Sep 15^th, 2005, 1:32pm

Whoops... Sorry... I'll edit and put a warning.

Title: Re: Drowned (photo/subject matter warning)
Post by pattik on Sep 15^th, 2005, 1:46pm

Powerful, Frank. You know what they say about how we can't pick our family members. Fortunately, there is another family here :)

Patti

Title: Re: Drowned (photo/subject matter warning)
Post by rextangle on Sep 15^th, 2005, 1:48pm

Very nice as always Frank! You've missed your calling...
Keep writing! [smiley=thumb.gif]

Title: Re: Drowned (photo/subject matter warning)
Post by Frank_W on Sep 15^th, 2005, 1:57pm

Thanks... I like what Richard Bach wrote in his book, "Illusions." "Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof." I can vouch for the truth of that. :)

Title: Re: Drowned (photo/subject matter warning)
Post by cootie on Sep 15^th, 2005, 2:48pm

Nice.....and you know stuff is written good when you get a clear visual in your head of what the words are saying.......pic is freaky but so is drowning. Undisolved Pam

Title: Re: Drowned (photo/subject matter warning)
Post by Frank_W on Sep 15^th, 2005, 3:04pm

Thanks, Pam. I had the dream several years ago, and it ended up, sadly, being premonitory. The drowning was a metaphor for the treachery and malice of my sister. (Without families, phsychiatrists would go out of business!) LOL

It was good to finally get this nightmare to a place where I could actually write about it, and the images and photo work well to convey the horror that I felt, upon awakening from that dream.

Title: Re: Drowned (photo/subject matter warning)
Post by Charlie on Sep 15^th, 2005, 3:23pm

Clusterheads seem to breed artsy types. Not me though. ::)

I can't do that Frank.

Charlie http://www.netsync.net/users/charlies/gifs/green hat.gif

Title: Re: Drowned (photo/subject matter warning)
Post by sandie99 on Sep 16^th, 2005, 8:46am

Powerful piece of work, Frank! :)

Families.... ::) I have no idea what to do with mine... They're still not talking and it's bothering me. Sometimes I think I shoud go to see a shrink about them... ::)

Title: Re: Drowned (photo/subject matter warning)
Post by Frank_W on Sep 16^th, 2005, 9:09am

Yeah... Families are a real trip, huh? :-/

[smiley=hug.gif] to you, Sanna.

Title: Re: Drowned (photo/subject matter warning)
Post by Ree on Sep 16^th, 2005, 6:23pm

let me at her.......

THAT WAS POWERFUL FRANK..... LOVE YA BUDDY REE

Title: Re: Drowned (photo/subject matter warning)
Post by cootie on Sep 16^th, 2005, 7:35pm

Good title too.....sumtimes I'd like to drown (mentally NOT really) sum of Brad's family ! DON'T get mad......I didn't say "REALLY"......no no no no noooooo.........mental notes Pam

Title: Re: Drowned (photo/subject matter warning)
Post by Carl_D on Sep 16^th, 2005, 7:39pm

Pretty morbid I must say.

I Love it!!!

Peece,
Carl D

Title: Re: Drowned (photo/subject matter warning)
Post by Frank_W on Sep 19^th, 2005, 7:29am

Thanks... I've been revisiting a lot of stuff from the past lately, processing it, coming to resolution on some of it, and other pieces of it, it's more akin to peeling an onion. Life is messy business... (Still, it far outweighs the alternative) ;;D