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bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

0 posted 2010-07-02 08:05 AM

Song of Bells

These 3 a. m. sorrows
streak like dark-hearted songbirds,
shackled to the steel
of my body's blue sinew,
ligaments of the heart's great naked timbres,
atremor in its quiet music,

the tinkle of syllables,
overturned tea cups spill
a kaleidoscope of bellbirds,
gone wild in the sun, Summer comes
wringing in its rainstorms,
for the nightenglae's thirst,

and what love soever in the dark
there is, I wake to a phantom refuge,
and begin to pace an eternity of corridors,
among saddened topaz, this silence,
strung with a garland of white bellflowers

and tethers of a patchwork dress
in cinders and ash, are like
the sound of mourning, pouring rain
upon the empty panes, torrid
my eyes climb,
like a pair of hands
drowning

in the day shallows,
unable to catch sparrows
in midflight without breaking their wings
in red splinters, I enter
a guilty plea, trembling
and pale as a doe
trapped in the body,

the day quivers
like the amble of belled feet,
pitching headlong into oblivion.
_______________________________________
~from The Caliban Ballads

Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

1 posted 2010-07-02 09:14 AM

ah yes~~ the Calliban Ballads...
lovely work ma;am.. indeed lovely work..

Dark Stranger
Member Patricius

since 2001-03-19

Posts 13631
West Coast

2 posted 2010-07-02 12:34 PM

babybel1e..you build such lovely puzzles with rollover buttons to be pushed as one assembles minds eye views of your intentions..

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

3 posted 2010-07-02 11:28 PM

Oh, send me the link to these ballads...
for they are balm, and bliss,
and more.

Brava, m'Bella!

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

4 posted 2010-07-03 10:02 AM

LOL~

Sunshine~ there is no link to them unfortunately anywhere on the WWW...there is however a secret book....somewhere...I believe! XD

easy1
Senior Member

since 2010-05-22

Posts 1209
Southeastern USA

5 posted 2010-07-15 04:30 PM

Nicely composed.

A belled horse at dawn, pulling slowly its still-sleepy rags dealer and cart... and the bells are in tune.

rosepetals36
Member

since 2010-07-09

Posts 137
Pa

6 posted 2010-07-15 09:44 PM

I wish I could put words together like this

<b>-- Used to be rosepetals25 before I tried to change my email lol</b>

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

7 posted 2010-07-16 07:04 AM

thank you, easy1 ! <3

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

8 posted 2010-07-16 07:05 AM

rosepetal~

thanks so much !

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