Traum Poem by M.J. Lemon

Traum

Rating: 5.0


every trauma speaks
just like birthday well-wishers
it signals a start

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
The title isn't a typo. It may be understood as the German word. It may also be seen as indicating a trauma in progress...
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Kim Barney 09 February 2023

Thank you for the poet's notes. Without them the poem would be incompl

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M.J. Lemon 12 February 2023

Kim, thank you so mu

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Susan Williams 09 February 2023

as for the rest of this poem--I sit here contemplating it, letting it speak to me while I rummage through my life for corroboration --I love reading your works, they make this creaky brain of mine work--top marks

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Susan Williams 09 February 2023

ah, thatk you for explaining the title--I thought it was a misprint--but how powerful it is to think of the title indicating a trauma in progress

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M.J. Lemon 12 February 2023

Thank you so much, Susan...I think dreams and traumas are intimately connected.

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Richard Wlodarski 03 November 2022

Absolutely brilliant title and poem. Trauma is the mind's way of asking the body to catch up to speed.

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M.J. Lemon 08 November 2022

Many thanks, Richard.

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LeeAnn Azzopardi 07 October 2022

Excellent write MJ

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M.J. Lemon 10 October 2022

LeeAnn. Thank you so much.

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