When Diamonds Are Forever (a repost)

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icebox
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since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

0 posted 2010-02-14 12:52 PM

The sky is pink this dawn,
a fitting start I think,
too realized,
the very air we breathe
will batter it to blue
in just a few degrees,
maybe this color is diluted
from startled threads of ache
still flashing red
reflected
from deep inside my brain,
as if raw color by itself
is trying to explode my head;
when I was young
I used to think I mattered in the world,
and would look for portents,
omens,
any day's predictors
scattered at each dawn
like reading tea leaves for tomorrow
or puzzling over entrails
drawn out from a day gone by,
a day I may have sacrificed
to stand upon its bones
to reach the sky,
or at least to grasp the fetal edge
of yet another day.

No more do I share prophecies,
except as party tricks
and as guidance for fools
who think it helps if they die rich;
I squandered energy
the way the sun consumes itself,
the way I redistributed wealth
in my own private sort of class war
never realizing
there would come a time
when I would have not
more than all I have.

Today is Saint Valentine's festival of foolishness.
Valentine the pagan,
Valentine the pederast,
Valentine the twisted monk
drawing imagery in sacred texts
that almost had him burned alive,
and today we carve it into candy
as we strive to weave seduction
into one of pride's little acquisitions,
little murders of the soul;

Valentine,
I am so glad your stylized heart
doesn't look like mine,
I've seen the images in stone
carved by hands long turned to dust
before you were compelled
by holy orders to adjust the meaning
of your scratches and atone
for your own petty soft abominations.
You must have lived more than once,
and needed time beyond one life,
to resolve agonies of soul
that plagued your thoughts
and left us with this very strange holiday
of sorts and fantasies
that supports candy stores and jewelers,
and caves where Hallmark cards
are sold like dispensations
to hopeful masses wishing for redemption,
for living
in a world where skies can turn to blue.

©2008, 2010 by icebox

Bill Charles
Member Patricius

since 2000-07-11

Posts 10619
highways, & byways, for now

1 posted 2010-02-14 01:45 AM

icebox - I'm glad you re-posted this, as I believe it's the first time I've seen it. A pleasure to read your words...

BC

threadbear
Senior Member

since 2008-07-10

Posts 817
Indy

2 posted 2010-02-14 01:21 PM

Beautiful stylized poetry,

love can sometimes be
the blue ice that is a pleasure
to see
but too cold to touch

Elizabeth Santos
Member Rara Avis

since 1999-11-08

Posts 9269
Pennsylvania

3 posted 2010-02-14 01:43 PM

This is one that must be read over and over
I tried to choose a favorite line but there were too many, but this is one:
"to grasp the fetal edge of yet another day"
Very very fine writing, dear poet
Very fine, indeed
Liz

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