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bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

0 posted 2011-02-24 07:26 AM

1. Choose your element: saltwater, ravensblood, milk; drink it in;
2. Drown in tempera, drown in porcelain, drown in the sound of our arpeggios;
3. Do not begin slowly, that is not the way with drowning, thought will bring reason;
4. Close your eyes, open your mouth, unconstrict the tendons at your throat, breathe it in;
5. The sweet tang of it holds a dream of birds on the tongue, a sugary oath, drown as a means of coping with life, or not;
6. drown in time, let days overwhelm you, find no compromise between the mad, ruinous choices on which you bob and float, lifeless, breathe it in;
7. drown in desire, find those things which only promise sustained wanting and swim in a sea of them;
8. O! how I love you roan, deeper than aster, than violet, feel it sweetest in the breath, how you left me in the branches, at night, thrusting with fire, left me staked to the body, full of the body, alone, until none;
9. spent, all the way to the bones, body of marigold, a spine flower spindle of a thing. I have never felt slighter, staked to the body breaking in coral and gold;
10. to grab only at drftwood, hand over hand, and still...nothing, beautiful nothing, remains with you; breathe it in;
11. drown in what you have lost, this is easiest, let it crest about your face;
12. taste its salt, and try to feel the silt ground with your palms; you have been dead for hours, yet you are still drowning; breathe it in;
13. discover heaven, a clear phlegm that saturates the lungs with air, in which desire for immersion may be sustainably met, breathe it in, cough it up;
14. saltwater, ravensblood, milk, rising in the capillaries, a colorless influenza until it spills into the cavity's lavender cadence of some wildflower heart;
15. dream it in, its silicates, salt and hazel poultice, and shift and deliquesa in the dimple of your palms, a crinoline supplication;
16. open your solitude and drown, at night, sing me to sleep [like you used to], our love a roan lullaby, a shipwreck full of the moon's indifference ashore, with soft, useless hands.

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

1 posted 2011-02-24 08:06 AM

Wow, what a "guide" to deep overwhelming emotions, lived fully and dismissed when totally absorbed. It should be like this indeed.

A write of rare intensity and beauty. ... Something to drown in!

Love,
Margherita

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

2 posted 2011-02-24 08:19 AM

Overwhelming, intense, beautiful...all the elements that you have mastered. Amazing
Lori

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

3 posted 2011-02-24 08:54 AM

Margharita~

Thank you for the kind reply!

~love & light~

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

4 posted 2011-02-24 08:54 AM

Thank you, Lori~

Dark Stranger
Member Patricius

since 2001-03-19

Posts 13631
West Coast

5 posted 2011-02-24 11:37 AM

baby bel1e...there is another liquid I prefer..but it takes practice to get drowning down. enjoyed your dance here little one

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

6 posted 2011-02-24 12:53 PM

daddy~

you so bad

^o^

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

7 posted 2011-02-24 01:57 PM

Okay. I have learned from the master (mistress) about ways to drown that never occurred to me. Nice.

~ Life is sexually transmitted ~

ethome
Member Patricius

since 2000-05-14

Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada

8 posted 2011-02-24 03:57 PM

In the pic you don't look sick and I have to say I'm impressed with your writing.

BUT! I'm sure your mother dropped you on your head when you were young and it resulted in a marvelous poetic renegade.

You could have been normal but that would be a drag for the rest of us!

Eric

oxymoron....Rap Music

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

9 posted 2011-02-24 04:18 PM

hahahaha Jerry~

Thanks for taking a peek!

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

10 posted 2011-02-24 04:19 PM

Eric~

ok..thanks? I think? LOL I think I was dropped more than once... [with urgency and quite often!] ^o^

[This message has been edited by bel1e (02-24-2011 05:49 PM).]

twistedpup
Member

since 2011-02-25

Posts 115

11 posted 2011-02-25 05:45 PM

what a poem. wow u can write. it is talent like yours that inspires me.

*hugs*

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

12 posted 2011-02-25 07:08 PM

thanks so much, twistedpup~

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