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Open Poetry #36

Lightning (spoken word)

Alwye

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In the space between moments

0 posted 2005-11-06 10:16 PM

Hi everyone!It has been a while again, but I thought I'd post a spoken word piece that I wrote.

Lightning

A snap of lightning
blasts sharp edges
onto the curvature of the sky
dark as your enigmatic eyes
dripping the ravages of rain
yet reveling in the rapture too.

In the millisecond of illumination
I understand the starkness of you
naked light against midnight hue
soaked skin shivering sins
soul wanting to disappear from view.

Soothed by nothing.

Haunted by the tempest tugging
and all the endless lugging, shrugging off faith
in order to carry the emotional weight.
--it cuts--
the razor shock, your thoughts unlocked,
the flash of truth reveals all you've sought
to be just raindrops, not yet caught.

You beg for the maelstrom to come undone
and dream of saffron sun to warm your skin,
but shadows curl and blackness swirls
and lightning cracks
across the night again.

~*Krista Lee Knutson*~

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
~Rabindranath Tagore

SEA

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since 2000-01-18

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with you

1 posted 2005-11-06 11:46 PM

wow....

"--it cuts--
the razor shock, your thoughts unlocked,
the flash of truth reveals all you've sought
to be just raindrops, not yet caught."

this is supreme
it's great to get to read you again