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bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

0 posted 2014-07-03 12:17 PM

I

The way desire is a body
eroding in a pile of salt,
marked by a crown of kingfishers
and black

this storm brings no rain,
grain too subtle for such dissolution,
a red constellation wrapped in a stitch,
spreading like sand across the hours,
a tender weave of hope.

This is resurrection.

II

The sky as red
as they eye of a hurricane,
this is all the terror I can bear:
desire wears the cerements of yellow, of sun.

III

how everything here
can so easily turn to mud,
the recalcitrance of dead leaves---
a sorrow, this weight beyond measure,

there is a drowned woman
in the dark swirl of silk and crinoline.

IV

night is the place
where the body is flayed open to grief and wonder...

for "the spirit has its homeland,
which is the realm of the meaning of things..."

BluesSerenade
Member Patricius

since 2001-10-23

Posts 10549
By the Seaside

1 posted 2014-07-03 02:13 PM

Your poetry is so full of passion and promise..
the ache, the angst, the love and heartache...it's all so vivid.
I felt every word, and I'm so happy to read you here.

Very Beautiful bella..

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

2 posted 2014-07-03 02:26 PM

Ahhh . . . This is the Baby Girl I remember. The depth of your poetry is amazing and poignant. Your thought process is one to be envied. Sure am happy to be reading you again.

~*~ When politicians give up on liberty, it falls to poets to preserve it. Or write its epitaph. ~*~

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

3 posted 2014-07-03 03:26 PM

Blue~~~thank you so much! Your reply warms my heart~*~

Walter Poe
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since 1999-10-13

Posts 787

4 posted 2014-07-03 03:29 PM

Ah a classic turn. A beautiful grecian styling. In words and form.

I aint as good as I once was but I'm as good, once, as I ever was. - Toby Keith

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

5 posted 2014-07-03 03:30 PM

Jerry,

Thank you, dear friend! It has been a very very long time since I've attempted to put word to page...I am a little rusty I'm afraid! But where else than on these fabulous blue pages to share my ramblings???

Thanks for the wonderful reply and warm welcome back!

Xoxo

[This message has been edited by bel1e (07-03-2014 04:02 PM).]

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

6 posted 2014-07-03 03:31 PM

Walter Poe!

Thank you so much for taking a moment out to endure my lunacy!

Xoxo

AmorSabor
New Member

since 2014-07-03

Posts 2

7 posted 2014-07-03 10:14 PM

no secrecy here...the beauty of your expression has always been the words composed within you in the form of your emotions

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

8 posted 2014-07-04 11:26 AM

Amor...your presence here means the worl to me...thank you, dear friend~*~

JL
Member Ascendant

since 2004-04-01

Posts 6128
Texas, USA

9 posted 2014-07-24 12:20 PM

JerryPat2 summed it up pretty well.
Can't add much to what everyone else said either, but darn, you write some mighty powerfully nice poetry, girl.

Loved the read! And the thoughts you provoked.

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!

Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

10 posted 2014-07-24 11:51 PM

Ah, loved this line

quote:

there is a drowned woman
in the dark swirl of silk and crinoline.

Don't place too much regard in the meaning of things... much easier to wander aimlessly through life and wonder what might have been.

Michael

Redstart
Senior Member

since 2014-05-16

Posts 535

11 posted 2014-07-26 01:47 AM

'The way desire is a body eroded in a pile of salt' Lord, I remember those hot, Spanish days.
Never, ever feel the need for silk and crinoline; that's for novels. And....... 'a crown of kingfishers is something to behold' oh, yes it is. It certainly is. I'm not saying I was in your mind, but you sure as hell put me right into mine. Exquisitely worded.

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

12 posted 2014-07-30 10:39 AM

fine writing !

even the title alone is a 'poem' in itself.

bel1e
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since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

13 posted 2014-08-05 09:06 AM

Thanks JL!

bel1e
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Posts 1631

14 posted 2014-08-05 09:07 AM

Thanks so much, Red~*~*

bel1e
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since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

15 posted 2014-08-05 09:08 AM

Dreampoet~

Thnaks for checking this one out~*~*

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