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Cpat Hair
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0 posted 2007-08-21 03:45 PM



Sculpted lines curve
the eye break to dragonfly scenes
As images along the thighs thick with marigolds and myrrh
Land upon the senses with a bend of percept
A myriad of views
Flashed past to present side by petal lay
Filled with years and hands that move
In and out of focus as the hair entwined with
Dogtooth violets bold
Is twisted into rings and becomes the welded chain
to hold back head in a rapture of sighs
Dominating the inhale of soft slapping air to lungs
Where cells are closed to carrying any more
Than the bits of life within a nucleus

What predisposition this
Frames of film present the movement
Lithe waist circled by arms as ends pass
To ends knotted along the spine
The pictures come faster as does the reed
Tipped to a bend by perched feet on tip
With toes extended
There is balance to maintain
And when the weight is lifted

Wings….

Smoothed illusions of flight
Eyes close in fear at what might fall
Baby and all  the Kings horses only stand stud
Waiting for the mares of night to mount
On a canvas of moon painted colors
All the shades of grey
Above the fragmented shells
Humpty Dumpty shattered on the past

Gasp
And draw raw deep into lungs
Staying a silent still as the artist moves
With the grunts and groans that
Age brings aches

Is Joy and art alone
enough to suffer for
When it is the creation of his will
His demands…
It is the captured hands that hold
Verbs transferred to stone  

Loll the head to side
And cough softly to rid the lips
Of words left behind as the brush tipped over ink
And the spill stained clay well worked
Smooth
Heavy lines sculpted thigh Rubenesque
With a fingers of deft hand
And palms slid along the lines of psalms

Smoothing rid the scale of dreams

Marble gleams in silence
Signed
On display through time and intent
Was to touch some manifest god
Pleasure captured upon the sheet
Or from the rough block

But along with selfish need

Our throats were bared
          And forgot we then the way
Rougher lust to breathe was lost
To the requium
                   Sung soft
To dead
My many thanks for the welcome back after so long an absence as I had.... it comes time now for me to beg indulgence again..as life and work begin to demand more of me than allows time to be here as I might like...

it has been a pleasure to see old names and read such good poetry again...and i will return as I can from time to time.

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TomMark
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1 posted 2007-08-21 04:53 PM


beautiful and artistic.

enjoyed the read. Do please find time to post more. And thank you for sharing all your wonderful writings with us.

bel1e
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2 posted 2007-08-21 07:02 PM


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~cradle and all~~~

~a fitting end...no? LOL

I love you~

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Sunshine
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3 posted 2007-08-21 08:37 PM


Then come back soon, and touch strangers
with leavings such as these sculpted lines...
for it is a pleasure...

to know that Rumi may have guided,
and gilded
one or two pathways...

but never, ever stop
writing on.


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4 posted 2007-11-05 02:19 PM


It is the captured hands that hold
Verbs transferred to stone  

I read your words and want to touch the smooth coolness that sweat brought to being... but then... you brought me closer than velvet ropes ever allowed. *S*

nakdthoughts
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5 posted 2007-11-05 05:38 PM


patience is a virtue~~ and so we wait until...


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Deep in the heart
6 posted 2007-11-05 06:30 PM


Oh, you rascal
luminosity
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7 posted 2007-11-06 02:05 PM


whereever and whenever your lines are sculpted, you will find me reading...
beautiful verse my friend

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8 posted 2008-03-07 07:52 AM


i have read your beautiful words many many times...i still find much joy  from reading the poems you and i wrote together...and im am soooooo happy to see you here...

gosh, its good to see ya

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