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OwlSA
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0 posted 2011-02-12 12:53 PM


POETRY IS . . .
11 February 2011

mountain-fresh
biting gasps;

whisper-softs,
painting butterfly wings,
secretly,
in caterpillar cocoons;

cacophonous crescendos
of precison-thundercracks,
louder than colours that clash;

peritonitic agony
streaming palettes
into rainbow-wild
hairpin bends
and asymmetrical swirls
and jerky angles
screaming through
sky,
canvas,
heart;

midnight velvet and silky tresses;
scar-barked tree towers, strong, reassuring;
bravery in miniscule petal-colour, promising;
Chopin soft-wafting on the breeze, teasing;
four-legged eyes defining love and loyalty;

scarf-dance multi-blued twirling,
swathing forgotten dreams
into long-ago forevers;

light- and shadow-dappling yarns;
laughter-leaping notions tried on for size;
salty blood-spurting knives;
and cloud-comfort cushions;
lion-cub learning;
and a long way home;

skylarks soaring higher than faith;
and oceans plummeting deeper than truth;

beauty that bursts the lungs;
and sorrow that tears off toe-nails;

Poetry is
sanity;
insanity;
a necessary luxury,
a luxurious necessity;
all that is good;
and all that is bad;
all things known;
and all things not
since Life began;
and it lasts beyond
Forever Amen.

Owl

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OwlSA
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1 posted 2011-02-12 12:57 PM


Oops!  Fixed the title myself.  I thought only a moderator could do that.

Owl

Richy
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2 posted 2011-02-12 02:25 AM


Absolutely enchanting.


graying1
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3 posted 2011-02-12 05:55 AM


if poetry is all that
you have mastered it well

Peter

OwlSA
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4 posted 2011-02-12 07:10 AM


Wow, Peter!  Thank you, she says, blushing.  Smiles.

Owl

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06
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5 posted 2011-02-12 08:06 AM


Poetry is soul. You captured it well.

~ There's nothing worse than desiring more than you are desired.--Justine Cook / "Portrait" ~

OwlSA
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6 posted 2011-02-12 08:07 AM


Thanks, Jerry, for your kind words.

Owl

bel1e
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7 posted 2011-02-12 12:08 PM


Amen to that~*~*~*

I could see you dancing in this and think I joined you in the fray for a sweet moment in time~~

~just lovely~

             

OwlSA
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8 posted 2011-02-12 12:19 PM


Thanks, Belle.  Smiling.

Owl

OwlSA
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9 posted 2011-02-16 07:59 PM


Thank you, Richy, for your kind words.

Owl

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