When Diamonds Are Forever (redux)

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icebox
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since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

0 posted 2014-02-14 07:18 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 Valentine's Day.
Saint Valentine's festival of foolishness,
Valentine the pagan,
Valentine the pederast,
Valentine the twisted monk,
tortured in his cell
for drawing obscene imagery in sacred texts,
now abstract and known so well,
back then almost had him burned alive,
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, 2011, 2014 by icebox

[This message has been edited by icebox (02-14-2014 09:43 PM).]

Bluesy Socrateaser
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since 2002-11-07

Posts 2417
In The Mirror

1 posted 2014-02-14 09:48 PM

Each of these stanzas could present themselves as great reads.

Fully assembled, your poetry is wonderfully insightful writing, fresh as a winter's morning.

Valentine?

It's difficult to disagree.

...just bein' Bluesy

[This message has been edited by Bluesy Socrateaser (02-14-2014 10:43 PM).]

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

2 posted 2014-02-14 10:28 PM

Valentine's Day is a holiday on which to read this poem.
Ida

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

3 posted 2014-02-15 07:20 AM

Besides being a wonderful poem in and of itself, it is very informative. This is great! Keep bringing it back, it is a keeper!!

Lori

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