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Seaangel
Member

since 1999-07-27

Posts 167
Auckland, New Zealand

0 posted 1999-12-20 04:18 AM

blue shadows over the hills
-the hills that mean nothing.
blue paper printing tree-outlines
that glow solid in the unrepentant sun.
common or garden fluoro red flowers
hiding, intolerably in beauty
-burn through blue,
burn through cloud & tree
& radio signals
& dull nothingness
burn through all of these,
come through hand & eye
to hot & solid
smash, graze, crack into orange,
into golden angel.

no beauty will ease my guts today.
the sun burns clear to what I don't want
to see, poetically
I am pinned to the ground,
looking up,
& watching you fly.

there is sound & breeze, dance
of life in birds, planes, & heroes
the rhythmic swallow of atoms
in wood, vegetation, wing, people.
words glimmer as leaves on the branch
words murmer as leaves on the branch
the bowling of light over & over
& through it all, the heat of it
over skin
the line of white that is the wind,
over you

I never wanted to be you,
only to know that movement thinly
independent of earth & thinly
sealed from space. A movement
of freedom to convulse me with gold,
to metamorphosis, to make true my dreams.

You tell me, bird, what it's like up there.
I'll never know, so tell me of the sea's
secret face, the top of trees,
how it is to be wholly in blue,
& never a whisper of corridors grimly
trailed. What's it like to see forever
so close?
Or does the illusion vanish?

Jordan Lake
New Member

since 1999-12-20

Posts 6

1 posted 1999-12-20 05:03 AM

Very well written. I enjoyed your use of words... very well done!

Rod
Member

since 1999-12-08

Posts 149
Auckland New Zealand

2 posted 1999-12-20 05:10 AM

You've done it again Seaangel!
Simply soars with airborne imagery!
Loved it.
Rod

Marge Tindal

Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

3 posted 1999-12-20 06:29 AM

SeaAngel -

Such lovely thoughts of
winged creatures.
My heart soared among them.
~*Marge*~

~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
noles1@totcon.com

Denise

Moderator

Member Seraphic

since 1999-08-22

Posts 22648

4 posted 1999-12-20 08:29 PM

I've often wondered the same! I enjoyed this Seaangel!

Denise

Martie

Moderator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

5 posted 1999-12-20 08:35 PM

This is excellent Seaangel--I could feel it so keenly, as if I wasn't reading but seeing into your heart.

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