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Siren Song
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Siren Song |
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bel1e Senior Member
since 2006-07-24
Posts 1631
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Dream is 1/6 prophecy, and the New Year’s a hinge of molten silver upon the gallows where darker angels hang nightmare, 3 broken promises and sunflowers swing before the spring shatters your heart, O what desperate god holds these barren minuets in its fists, like a shard, a fragment, an afterthought, our someday child unclasps rigid cicada wings to cover the trinity of watermarks, gravel, dust, grieves for the hush, the blur, the burr before the haphazard cruelty of shears at the nape, cuts my perfect plait, and I begin to erase the mistake of the Tarot’s paper destinies, all rain swept, our fairytales bear their cryptic answers in italics and its milky 4/4 time, snaps shut, suddenly windmills tilt sideways, a vague ellipse of limbs, for who can say what the body is capable of? What dark swimming lies within? elsewhere, there’s a flowering, a quiet scythe slits the un-cut bulbs into homesick and immaculate darkness, cobwebs have spun cocoons around these moments, an upside down moon tunnels its light like a bluemilk river beneath the floorboards, what gentle trappings sweat and moan? and who can say the water doesn’t sing to my body, like something lost, cling to my body like salt membranes, a-thickening, or that in French, the word for rain, isn’t so terribly far from, to cry.  |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Aye, dreams can very well be prophecy, and nightmares are things to run from. Baby Girl, you addressed those nightmares when you said quote: You have so many wonderful expressions herein. "the trinity of watermarks, gravel, dust," This is a work that calls for second and third readings, and I plan on doing just that. ~*~ When politicians give up on liberty, it falls to poets to preserve it. Or write its epitaph. ~*~ |
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Michael
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666California |
Ah, what a sight to come home to. Great to see you here... gave this a light read, gonna delve into it a bit now. All I will say for now is you create a gothic imagery like no one else I've read. Michael |
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bel1e Senior Member
since 2006-07-24
Posts 1631 |
Thank you, Jerry ! I am so pleased you enjoyed this! Xoxo |
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bel1e Senior Member
since 2006-07-24
Posts 1631 |
Michael, Thanks for the warm welcome! It's good to be here! Gotta love goth~*~ Xoxo |
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AmorSabor New Member
since 2014-07-03
Posts 2 |
there are days marked by calendars hidden deep within the labyrinths of one's soul ... yours are not hidden they are the weekends and holidays that bring sweet tidings to the heart |
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bel1e Senior Member
since 2006-07-24
Posts 1631 |
Amor....your encouragement is so uplifting...thank you, my love~*~* |
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Walter Poe Senior Member
since 1999-10-13
Posts 787 |
It falls In spaces everywhere aberration mounts The minds twists Sheltered and unleashed A dizziness grips Through altered conciousness We fall and undulate Bodies Memories both I search in vain Through fallen moons and bitter homilies I am lost to you Around me starfall The soft light pitter A patter forgotten long long ago I remember claw I remember... tooth At the back where monsters play Still I tear Rend flesh and bone Yet touch nothing In endless pursuit I scream at the coming An unknown escape To where To where Change painful change Outside rain falls On tin pot roofs My eyes open once more and you are found. I aint as good as I once was but I'm as good, once, as I ever was. - Toby Keith |
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bel1e Senior Member
since 2006-07-24
Posts 1631 |
Walter Poe....this is lovely...your response deserves a thread all on it's own....those damn sirens...will get you every time..... Thank you, dear poet~*~ Xoxoxo |
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Walter Poe Senior Member
since 1999-10-13
Posts 787 |
No was just loved the reply to 'There is a coldness in the air' Was gonna email but chickened out so you get this as a present instead |
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bel1e Senior Member
since 2006-07-24
Posts 1631 |
That anything I said could inspire your poetry in any tiny way is a wonderful compliment. Thank you, Walter Poe....xoxo |
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Walter Poe Senior Member
since 1999-10-13
Posts 787 |
So emailed sorry if i impose I aint as good as I once was but I'm as good, once, as I ever was. - Toby Keith |
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bel1e Senior Member
since 2006-07-24
Posts 1631 |
Not at all, Walter Poe~*~ Thank you for reaching out ~*~*~ Xoxo |
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JL Member Ascendant
since 2004-04-01
Posts 6128Texas, USA |
"or that in French, the word for rain, isn’t so terribly far from, to cry." Love this write, as usual you do a great poetry... (I said that with a french accent.) Vous écrivez la grande poésie La pluie? French always has me stumped, I seem to sound like Pewee Herman when I try it. Enjoyed, my friend!! 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. |
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bel1e Senior Member
since 2006-07-24
Posts 1631 |
Thanks so much, JL...glad you liked it! |
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