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Creative Writing, Laguna Beach poet, poem about death, Robin Dawn Hudechek, Southern California Poet
I am very happy and honored that I have a poem, “The Room” in Right Hand Pointing Issue 85. There’s lots of great work in this issue! Please enjoy and consider submitting some work yourself. It’s a wonderful home for your short poems!
Robin Dawn Hudechek 
Reblogged this on D. Blaine 's Space.
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I am very honored you reblogged my poem on your beautiful website, Blaine! Thank you very much! 🙂
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Congratulations!
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Thank you, Mihaela! 🙂
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Hmm, interesting poem. I’m trying to figure out if the room is a morgue or a prison cell. Or maybe both?
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Robin Dawn Hudechek said:
April 2, 2015 at 4:08 pm
Hi Gene! Thanks for stopping by and commenting on the poem To me, the room was a prison. ‘They’ didn’t want this person to leave, but since he is dead, a morgue sounds right, too. I wrote the poem from a picture of a sheet-covered body in a room. And there was a uniformed man there. It was a very creepy photo.
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Cool, I like it. Even if they kept someone locked away to die, that person could still get away in their mind/soul. It made me think of things like freedom and oppression. You could take that further and say that death is the ultimate oppressor/jail keeper, and the afterlife is a type of freedom. Not that that is what you were writing about, but it’s where my mind went.
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Congratulations, Robin! The line about traveling “through darkness on a barge” is especially haunting.
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Thank you very much, Alice! 🙂
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