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Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

0 posted 2004-07-31 08:25 PM

Spelunk! Spelunk! Spelunk!

Falling drops of lime,
suspended moments in time.

The cave climber's twilight zone
beckons you to enter
the crystal chasm below,
where spelunkers dangle
from friendly threads
and crawl on their knees
'round majestic columns
massive as giant Sequoia trees,
and shiny soda straws are
swallowed by Mother Earth's
cavernous mouth,
while Aeolian chamber music curls
capriciously through deep canyons
and painted galleries.

Listen to an opus of Nature.

The sounds of a saxaphone suddenly echo
point to counterpoint,
blending harmonically, sensuously,
as dancing lovers entwine
beneath surface sinkholes that
camouflage hidden treasures,
filled with young vertical shafts
cutting through moist passages
of calcite speleothems;
a whirlwind melody of
enveloping stalagmite reeds,
notes dropping serendipitously
from crystalline stalactites.

Spelunk! spelunk! spelunk!

Bridging the ethereal tunes of nature
surrealistically with sensual sax sounds,
a jazz fusion caresses you alongside licks of lime,
mingling Aeolian chamber music with the sublime,
and beckoning you to enter
these chambers divine.
*

Note:The opening of a cave is affectionately called the twilight zone by spelunkers, whose first love just may be exploring the secrets of caves. It is not a reference to Rod Serling's old Twilight Zone show.

[This message has been edited by Midnitesun (08-01-2004 03:09 PM).]

Juju
Member Elite

since 2003-12-29

Posts 3429
In your dreams

1 posted 2004-07-31 08:49 PM

At first I was kinda cofused, but then at the ende you explained it and it all made since. There was alot of imagery, butI yet wonder if this was all a metafor??? The poem was great, though I think I would of enjoyed it more if I had a better vocabulary, which is not your fault, but my own. (HHEHEHEHE)
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Much enjoyed

Juju

iliana
Member Patricius

since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

2 posted 2004-07-31 09:03 PM

Great poem, Kacy, really great!

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

3 posted 2004-08-01 07:10 PM

Thanks for reading, friends.
I understand, Juju, the vocabulary is a bit specific, but it needed to be in this case.

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