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D.Lester Young
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since 2001-12-08
Posts 1219
Austin, Tx

0 posted 2005-04-12 12:05 PM


Silvered mirrors of reflection
Light of truth enlightenment
Reflecting back, color of reality
Revealing backward meanings
Perceptions of color and light.

Dark mirrors of absorption
Whose images inhale visions,
Taking light turning it black
Devoid of any physical form
Having shadows disappear.

Shrinking awareness of reality,
Gravity of the other side
The never feeling here after
Breathing grave of inversion
Darkness existing but where.

Devoid of any dimension
Floating on inner space
Thoughts seeking outer space
Inside out movements
Turning inside out.

Left becoming right
Upside down right crazy,
To walk is to never leave
Staying moves you away
Toward light as a spec.

Moving backwards enlarges it,
Sprinting backward twisted
Around barrier crashing inside
Out fears carrying the mind
Into nightmares then soothing.

What an insanity’s reflection
To have been inhaled whole.
Greatest fears invading home
Breathing in time, strikes terror
Clocks scream counter clockwise.

Mirrors revealing the right time
Heartbeats beating so right,
English drivers turn American,
Racetracks counter the norms,
Madness in its total reversal.

God could anything be worse
Than writing right to left,
Characters need silver mirrors
For interpretations, yet speech
In miracles is still recognized.

Frantic moves to regain clarity
To find the elusive dark mirror.
Reverse time pattern into peace.
Closing eyes to be aware of it,
Cautious steps turning stomachs.

Churning in uncertain heart burns,
Back and forth uncertainty
Being quaked finally in gravity.
Fear whirling churning within
Darkness, the unknown dimension.

Concocted meditative hallucinations,
Weird patterns as if in an acid trip
To close the mind and explode
Feeling something but where,
Eyes glued shut in super glue.

Prying hands with razor nails,
Oh, the new found insanity.
Tears of negatives becoming alive,
Realizing soon the photographers
World of black and white reversals.

Negatives that are stilled in color
Seeing tears fall in suspension.
Haunting memories of film strips
Living in the grays of depression.
Springs lost as winter shadows.

Mirrors here, all showing blackness,
Finally realizing in vain escapes
To look on the bright side of things,
Silver reflection of what had been,
Earth quaking storm enlightening.

Reasons to exist as you were,
Determination, sheer will power,
You are the reflection inside
That nothing can turn aside.
Or can avoid coming through.

To finally find the reality
That never sleeps again,
Evading mirrors as the plague.
So today in your chores
What will the mirror reveal?

Try to ignore them if you can!
And see the world reverse itself.
Wondering what is on,
The other side!

Note: Last night after a power failure, and closing my eyes, these thoughts came out of nowhere. Therefore, upon a flashlight, I sketched it out, then finishing it upon the sunlight within the rejuvenated illumination of 3 AM. I am saving this quick for last night my thoughts on screen became dark to never revive again as my Microsoft Word backup set for 3 minutes failed me in a greater timeframe. To lose, to gain, life’s living examples.

D.Lester
Somewhere in America not on company time 04/11 to 4/12/05 ©
The Terminated Free Spirited Poet


[This message has been edited by D.Lester Young (04-13-2005 10:26 PM).]

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DavePage
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since 2003-12-21
Posts 2917

1 posted 2005-04-13 03:57 PM


Did the initial read
then back
then cutting on a line by line

I just haven't the time since dinner, application forms etc., want doing.

Thank something I dont have a Mirror;  just an old trouser press that has no power.

Images
Looking at self
in all hues
hidden in yourself
learning
fascinated

Excellent words that need a lot of time to read and understand

Take care

Dave

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577
displaced
2 posted 2005-04-13 04:10 PM


this is deep

wow

Dave, you need to sit in the dark more often m'friend

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