Tell People About Me, poetry written by Henry Bladon at Spillwords.com

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Tell People About Me

Henry Bladon·March 30, 2019

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Tell People About Me

written by: Henry Bladon

I am lost. Please help.

My existence is woven with doubt,
surrounded by my fears.

Stark shards of pain
thread through my head,
searing connections.

No thoughts edge through
the manic clatter
of jumbled sound.

Today no cascade of creativity.

I am alone.
I am tired.

Today there is darkness.
Tell people about me when I am gone.

NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR:

This is a poem inspired by Roquairol – Erich Heckel (Germany) 1917.
This woodcut image became a seminal artwork, inspiring David Bowie’s ‘Heroes’ album cover. It can be seen in the Metropolitan Museum Collection in New York.

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Henry Bladon

Henry is a writer of all types of fiction based in Somerset in the UK. He has a PhD in creative writing from the University of Birmingham and runs a writing support group for people with mental health issues. His work has been in entropy, 50WordStories, Bloodaxe, The Ekphrastic Review, thedrabble and FridayFlashFiction among other places.

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Brad Osborne, a highly decorated Marine combat veteran and poet living in Pennsylvania, is a contributing editor and member of The American Poets Society. His poetry has been published in “The Gettysburg Historical Review”, “NY Naval Quarterly”, “Tempest Poetic Society Journal”, and the anthology “Expressions” by The American Poets Society. His works have been featured online by Spillwords Press NYC, The Navy Times, Reader’s Digest, Healthy Living, Meditations, and many others. He was awarded the Anna Rabinowitz Prize by the Poet Society of America for 2015, the Silver Medal for Poetry by the Pennsylvania Poetry Review for 2009 and was a finalist for the Buckner Award in Poetry for 2017. He is currently editing his first book of poetry “Reticent Ink”, which he hopes to publish soon.

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