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bel1e
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since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

0 posted 2011-02-14 09:18 AM

Ashen are the lamentations,
the mewing eulogy of crickets
exiled to the midnight pastures,
I keep strewn with the wreckage of pumpkins,
charred wood, and glass whimsy

as dawn sets an exodus to music,
simmering in all its pink omens,

yesterday still in its husk, ablur
with the wings of doves,
screaming for pulp and mash,

Winter is a halo of ash
where black mares run like a memory,
peripheral to the orchards,

and home becomes a slow deluge of loops and tumbles,
all thumbs to hold the Calabash moon
by its drawstring, swallowing

these inching shadows, my soul
gloved in a raiment of skin,

and heaven is in a hollowed promegrante,
bubbling on a spoon, secreted
in a lacquered box with lush filigree,

a kept mistress, locked
in a tumbledown tower,

and just yesterday there were wraiths
bluing the soft lips of our wildnight gardens,
slowfires and ecstasy, given

so much time to hum
against the hands of a pumpkin clock,
as it ticks off the minuets in its bittersweet pulp,
and inches along barefoot,

the glass shards like shrapnel embedded in my heel.

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~*~previously posted under title "Ashen Are The Lamentations"

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

1 posted 2011-02-14 02:40 PM

I do enjoy your whirlwinds, truly.

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

2 posted 2011-02-14 02:43 PM

hey Sunshine~

thanks so much for taking the ride!

~hugs

nakdthoughts
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since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

3 posted 2011-02-14 03:36 PM

"and home becomes a slow deluge of loops and tumbles,
all thumbs to hold the Calabash moon
by its drawstring, swallowing

these inching shadows,"

I've never been known to wear a glass slipper~~thoughts brought to mind

M

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

4 posted 2011-02-14 08:22 PM

hey M~

Thanks so much for reading !

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

5 posted 2011-02-14 09:05 PM

Haha! Gotta watch those slippers made of glasss. You have a wonderful, fantasizing thought process, and I love it. Sorry I haven't been around today, spent most of it in the emergency room. Esophagus problems.

~~ All those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand ~~

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

6 posted 2011-02-14 09:22 PM

OH Jerry! I hope you are alright now!

Thanks for reading my poem!!!!

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