no warning (20171023)

28 thoughts on “no warning (20171023)”

1. Unlike a bone breaking a heart breaking may make no sound.

2. Indeed, a soul might break without warning… so true. Be watchful for the signs,

3. Nice write – I liked how you played with our expectations – who ever heard of a damp muscle “shattering” – other than (of course) the broken hearted?

   1. Thank you!

4. Your Quadrille made me gasp, especially:
   ‘much like a dried branch
   stepped on in summer
   that makes the birds
   go silent’
   and
   ‘–a heart, for example–

   will make no sound before
   shattering like glass’.
   I think was might hear our own.

   1. Thank you so much.

5. Poignant! And so evocative!

   1. Thank you 🙏

6. perhaps

7. Wise words, Mr. Crow.

   1. Thank you, Merril. 😀

8. I like the unexpectedness/contrast of the heart shattering like glass, when our minds are expecting soft tissue.

   1. Thank you. I think it needed a left turn in there.

9. A broken heart feels just like glass puncturing flesh

   1. And from the inside out where you can’t get at the shards.

10. Profound! A heart does break silently.

11. As much as I love this, I must also point out that while muscles might not ‘shatter’, you *can* hear them when you… ah… hit them with something like… a hammer.
    Not what you’re going for, since the sound is rather dull, unlike the sound of shattering.

    1. The first movie I saw in a really large theater with a modern sound system was Raiders of the Lost Ark. it was amazing to hear someone get punched. Later there was a tv special about the sound effects. Basically someone whacking a nice form cabbage with a baseball bat.

12. Wow! Your word imagery is wonderful!

    1. Thank you!

13. So sad when the hearts just suddenly stops….Thanks for joining in Crow!

    1. I agree

14. Beautiful, if tragic.

    1. Thank you very much.

15. Oh, my heart summersaulted then tore a chamber as it read your achy breaky words! I expected your poem to stay with the birds, but you killed me with the last line, and I re-lived all those broken hearts in one swoop of your cruel wing. Yes, I loved the pain. Hurt me again. ❤️

    1. I could never hurt you. More than you want.

       1. Darn! Lol. Perhaps a hawk can help me.

       2. 😉

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