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bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

0 posted 2011-02-09 01:14 PM

My Sweet Nothing,

Enclosed you will find the dust of moth wings,
the pollen of blue roses flush in the serein,
that invisible flim flam too vivid to bear,

don't go back there,

not even the killdeer do,
not the swallows and not the rooks,
not the sparrows nor their silvering hooks,

neither the reddest birds
nor the furtive Cinderellas,
their heels split and hollowed-boned wings

still, our nest is more an abandoned bed of peat
than a nest ever was, a quilt that feels like
bruised knees, swollen lips, everything.

My Dreamy Nothing, you
with your neverness, your unknown,
your Blue within, all thick cells and vortexes and serotinin love,

the cricket's lavish song lulls my virtue, dead,
you whisper this is how the earth becomes a grotto of skeletons,

snow, white weather, chalk and basalt,
puffins and fushia sumac in the hoarfrost,

and bloodied, your hand holds the shorn bush
that yesterday flourished, all lopped canes

and a scant spitfall of remnance, like pollen,
the dust of moth wings mere confetti
in the clefts of vanishing deer.

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

1 posted 2011-02-09 01:35 PM

You blend the harshest cruelty with the gentlest beauty and make a classical ballet out of it, just as Life does, but few see Life like that. The fact that you do, enriches us.

Owl

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

2 posted 2011-02-09 01:39 PM

Owl~

((deep hug))

thank you....for such a wonderful reply to my lunacy~

xoxox

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

3 posted 2011-02-09 01:57 PM

Well, Belle, if that is your lunacy, would you mind very much staying a lunatic, please?

Owl

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

4 posted 2011-02-09 02:14 PM

Surrealistic with the grit of reality is this gem. You, bel1e, are a teller of stories, a Picasso who spreads her words and phrases over the canvass of the mind, not hesitating to venture out and surprise and even befuddle your many fans. I find you refreshingly loony.

~ Some people are like a Slinky -- not really good for anything -- but you still can't help but smile when you shove them down the stairs. ~

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

5 posted 2011-02-09 03:13 PM

@ Owl ~~~ m'dear ~I have only recently made my escape from the Asylum....LOL..but I'm afraid I am hardly cured.

Thank you for the kind encouragement !

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

6 posted 2011-02-09 03:15 PM

OH...my dear Jerry...I'm afraid I am also a little bit contagious! LOL...beware the full moon..that's when the fever is at its worst.

Thank you, my friend~
xoxox

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

7 posted 2011-02-09 03:28 PM

I love the mystical quality of your work.
Lori de la loon

steavenr
Member Elite

since 2003-11-17

Posts 4058

8 posted 2011-02-09 03:58 PM

"this is how the earth becomes a grotto of skeletons"...such an apt description of the heart of this write...a truly stirring composition

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

9 posted 2011-02-09 04:05 PM

I've read this three times...
and the word "awesome" blanches
because it is so much more.

I do enjoy your work, Belle.

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

10 posted 2011-02-09 06:18 PM

Lori! alas yet another victim of my lunacy! (((thank you, kindly)))

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

11 posted 2011-02-09 06:20 PM

steavenr~

thanks so much !

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

12 posted 2011-02-09 06:21 PM

thanks Sunshine...I got a bit more bleeding to do before i clean up my act...so bear with me~~

xoxoxox

BluesSerenade
Member Patricius

since 2001-10-23

Posts 10549
By the Seaside

13 posted 2011-02-09 10:31 PM

My Dreamy Nothing, you
with your neverness, your unknown,
your Blue within, all thick cells and vortexes and serotinin love
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Your writing is an event!

Sitting down to read your poetry is thrilling,
every word keeps me on the edge of my seat.

Brava, baby belle~

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

14 posted 2011-02-10 06:11 AM

thanks so much Blues ~for the kind review~

love & light

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