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lotharingia
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since 2000-06-04
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saarbruecken, Germany

0 posted 2000-06-11 03:15 PM


People who have read some of my other poems will notice that this is rather different. I wrote it 3 years ago, and I'd greatly appreciate feedback since I'm not sure whether I love it or hate it!

The Pearl

At the bottom of the ocean
an emerald haze
Too deep
Grope around the slimy rocks
to find a hole
to let me out

Greensalt my veins

Drowning weeds grasp my limbs
fingers long and blind
There
a treasure more beautiful than
light
A pearl shimmering
where
flickering fish
reflecting colours
of ecstasy
of pain
chaos
symmetry

Fragile
careful if I touch
when I touch
hand reaches
gently prises
from bed of sand

the pearl

strive towards the sun
frenzied energy
seizing body
freezing mind

On the soft down of the shore
dark line drawn around us

Hold the sparkling sphere
eyes reflecting eyes
in mesmerising depths

a million dazzling splinters
blinding me
tearing my skin
forming a pattern
rivulets of blood
doubling
the fragmented form

twinkling
bleeding
on the
whiteblackdrywet
sand

until the sea
hungry
mad
void
reclaims us


 Lotharingia
"For God's sake, he's a poet. Poets are meant to feel miserable. Otherwise, what the hell are they here for? What are they going to write about?"
Tom Holland


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