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Krawdad
Member Elite

since 2001-01-03

Posts 2597

0 posted 2011-10-09 12:41 PM

      Black and White

      shadow and light

      pale white light
      no color left

      reflected
      window to window
      through hot-rolled glass

      dracena and lace
      ripple silently across
      an old dining room wall

      a flat ephemeral universe
      once
      only once

      now

      gone

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

1 posted 2011-10-09 03:28 AM

Exquisite moment of nostalgia painted with a quiet brush into a work of art I want on my wall for all time and from which I cannot drag my eyes away. A poem that is as simple or as multi-facetted as the reader chooses, no matter what the master painter intended. This tiny gem outsparkles its size. The soft Rembrandt-lighting is mesmerising. Dracaena hookeriana is the cousin I know - or perhaps even the same species as you painted?

Owl

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

2 posted 2011-10-09 08:16 AM

I love the beauty of ephemeral things, most of my marriages were of that nature. But you are speaking of another, different, and all together wonderful, but fleeting, of a site so holy-like it almost defies description.

~*~ Tell me whom you love, and I will tell you who you are.--Houssaye ~*~

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

3 posted 2011-10-09 02:39 PM

A magical moment captured masterfully.

M

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

4 posted 2011-10-14 01:59 AM

Such a deep and unique poem, Krawdad. Love it.
Ida

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

5 posted 2011-10-14 07:15 AM

Like a memory saved in a locket...this image is precious and timeless...
Lori

ice
Member Elite

since 2003-05-17

Posts 3404
Pennsylvania

6 posted 2011-10-14 07:56 AM

Love it...the movement of the earth, and time passing, proven by the shadows of lance-leaf plant, and lace causing pattern on a wall.
This is what good poetry does--demonstrate by words, the small, important details of life that often lack attention.

JL
Member Ascendant

since 2004-04-01

Posts 6128
Texas, USA

7 posted 2011-10-15 10:37 AM

"dracena and lace
ripple silently across
an old dining room wall"

I found myself staring at that same wallpaper and asking: From antiquity to modern time does anything have meaning except for change itself? And then before you know it, that change is gone.

Enjoyed your very deep thought in this write.

JL

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,and with all your mind. Love your neighbor as yourself.
Maranatha!

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