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Isle of Freedom |
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LeeJ Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296
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Rowing to the core of sea We were seated facing each other Deep pools of water lay still Circles splashed, like expanding chenille Melody carried precisely like a prayer Of wet illustrations like humidity in the air My face swollen with the smell of frescos Dyed to match champagne, bleaching mauve to rose To all forms of enhancements flabby, with regard for childhood A countenance of shapes performing ballets Pausing, ablaze within overflowing terraced gravity Illuminating some deeper life, random, yet consistently threading With a whole other meaning, bright beacons of indigo skies Trailing like the flange of God…and His brighter one, Venus Familiar elements trickled within my passions focus Like a saga beginning, with magnificent topography Simple tokens from a place inhabited with camaraderie Claiming an element of life Fuller then the threat of dark Making itself felt most strongly Arising to the pool of day…deep and dainty Brightening sky was busy with residential birds traveling Various patters of rubies marked their passage Finding a thread of narrative utterance, picking at the crumbs As laden with meaning like humans talking in poems Declaring spring, summer, fall and winter’s demur All season’s claiming source, root & heather’s stranger Firm in this sight I realized the night was worth it Along with the singing black crows peculiar wit It is a method, wet-stoned and smooth Some master plumage, over what we assume Dimensional embodiment across the sky Where numberless stores of refinements supply Tips and ears of corn to be shelled Warmed to the point of promising examples So to, we may live by this expiring illustration Fighting glorious, tragic and heroic Beyond all powers along side of expressional mystic Conclusive cradled my heart’s blood Turning my boat toward failing peaces of antique design Somewhat conscious features, wore mountains diminishing lines An oath of allegiance, by an ocean’s unfathomable opened door Amber rhythmic color of space, haply splashing peaks of color Like a translucent shawl of marriage wrapped warmly around my shoulder There my thoughts nestled within a pouch of velveteen Where I heard the low scent of endless reason pristine Looking on, I entered that deep flaming alter of mind Where soul measures not, but blends with circles of time Miles of glistening serene rolling acres of unbound air Calming and graceful like two life-time companions A chapel in the wilderness…long vaulted cathedral acreage Preacher’s Cave….gleaming across the sigh of Glass Window Bridge Isle of leeward deep blue oceans painting a place which lends itself Seamanship having deep ancestral roots, for memorable loyalists It was good to be home, being led by not one sound But by the soft eves of improving illustration profound Nature with true variance…lighting the candle Of the eastern horizon….fixing to rise Fluttering in its moments, so slowly that you could not Have said exactly when… Coming in time, waiting for the moon to rise, Passing time in such wise swells of oceans Breathing in a place of truth |
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LeeJ Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296 |
Good Morning Everyone....Christians speak oft times of being saved....or giving their lives up to God. Well, for me it was a little different, and experienced on an island in the Carribean several years ago...that is where I met God, and realized all those years of restlessness in my life...and in one sacred undefinable instant...coming home. This poem is reality...to long or not...it's who I am...what I write, how I write...my name and insignia... |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
LeeJ A remarkable argosy,a phantoms fantasy of reside. Enjoyed the read. |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
I have not found that place or had that moment hit me yet. I suppose I need more restlessness. Lee, this is very touching. |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
Lovely...James |
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