Sponsored by Workhorse, Lexington Poetry Month is an easy to use
platform for poets to publish and share their work in an attractive
way. The community is supportive and diverse, commenting and
encouraging one another throughout June. Money we raise goes
to maintaining the cost of the website and publishing the yearly
anthology. Our goals are to provide every poet (~150) a copy of
the anthology, lower printing costs, and expand opportunities
offered during Lexington Poetry Month, such as featured readings
and poetry workshops.
“tatters of myself” is an ingenious image! Maybe this is just my inner optimist speaking, but I feel shreds of hope in this poem. Thank you for sharing!
Love this, Kevin. Reminds me of a hymn line that fascinated me as a kid “drawn up in dread array” – very vampiric
There’s a nobility about this, Kevin, and strength, too. So much in so few lines!
very nice, great idea
sounds like an old prophet
“tatters of myself” is an ingenious image! Maybe this is just my inner optimist speaking, but I feel shreds of hope in this poem. Thank you for sharing!
Love wearing our tatters like a cloak! Sounds warm and comforting
Lovely!
I feel hope in this too. Hope can be tattered. It usually is.
This works perfectly – and yes, the speaker doesn’t sink into the tatters, but pulls them around him – like a magician’s cloak, you might say.
A powerful expression of self acceptance and self love
This just simply works