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November In Bethlehem
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November In Bethlehem |
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bel1e Senior Member
since 2006-07-24
Posts 1631
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I’ve walked November, end to end, barefoot over its thresholds of stone, of surrender, so descends a black autumn, a thousand leaves dying, so much dying, the soul, a flask of dried salts trickling through the eye sockets of a clay mask, bristling glass branches in a garden of blood roses, just out of reach and relinquished to a backdrop of Japanese Maples draped in the fevers of morning, always mine, darkening the long shadows of the day’s delirium, nothing but a drum skin jaguar of absence beats through the flesh, like a bell’s toll, yet yours is the sound that breaks open my body, dressed in its slender wings and barbed kisses, with bells in their depths, the silence of bare limbs and the long wings in chorus with the silk of rain falling softly, as night melts one body into another, listen, listen as I enter your thoughts, too far for a sound to cross the river as the silver earth darkens, over Bethlehem, beaded with the sugars of the body, soft as dream, the night’s black harvest of moments span the passageways where panthers guard our oblivion in some gray dominion of summer and soon, come over the soul, the clock face, a cadence carved in the glyphs of a river, always, always out of reach, like the chalice I lift to sun burnt lips, full of ashes, and everywhere the colors I cannot take my eyes from, all of them, red with bells in their depths, a black-veined butterfly’s struggle to ascend its bruises through a bloodbath of salts, soft, upon your tongue the taste of sand and evening becoming body.    |
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Cpat Hair
since 2001-06-05
Posts 11793 |
intricately woven...always layers and layers to be read and thought about... it is always a pleasure to read you kid... always an education..... and an insight... |
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bel1e Senior Member
since 2006-07-24
Posts 1631 |
thanx Chief~ this one, I think...is one of my Dear Diary ...confessional tapestries...I recently found the pic...and thought it might go well with the poem  thanx love~ ~smooches |
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Cpat Hair
since 2001-06-05
Posts 11793 |
dear diary.... it must indeed be quite the diary to read Belle... |
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bel1e Senior Member
since 2006-07-24
Posts 1631 |
 endless drivel...lol but thanks for saying that, Chief~ |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
A pleasure...James |
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bel1e Senior Member
since 2006-07-24
Posts 1631 |
thanx so much, James~ |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
To the top in November...James |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light |
You are in a league all your own, Goddessa Poetessa!  EA |
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Artic Wind Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 8080Realm of Supernatural |
very powerful words WOW that is a very goooooooooood poem, i meant it, i am shaking it was so good, going in for another peek ! lol ARCTIC WIND |
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1slick_lady Member Ascendant
since 2000-12-22
Posts 6088standing on a shadow's lace |
your poetry is such a delight to read you are tender and soft and sharp as a razor I have missed your poetry I was going to write you and tell you to post something but it is private so… you are so talented and i enjoy you you have become one of my favorite poetesses very happy to see you here today |
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