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OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

0 posted 2008-05-31 02:21 PM

A NANO-FLUTTER’S GRACE
31 October 2006

Tonight, now,
in joyous rebellion,
I will shake my hair loose
and pluck
a lightning flash
to wrap my spirit
in the pulse of
thunder-drums
and poetry colours
and slow-soaked peace,
and I will twirl them
around my fingers
and my shoulders
like an untamed, rainbow scarf
and I will dance them
barefoot on cool, wet grass
. . . till the white thunder dies
. . . and the clock ticks again
. . . and the work shouts
my name.

- Owl

leoni_v
Member

since 2008-05-28

Posts 54
Mpumalanga, South Africa

1 posted 2008-05-31 02:56 PM

Awesome imagery, Owl! Somehow I see fireflies whirling in the night, reading your poem. Lovely!

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

2 posted 2008-05-31 03:15 PM

Thank you Leoni for feeling my poem so well.

- Owl

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

3 posted 2008-05-31 03:26 PM

This has a wonderful sense of freedom and abandon about it Diana.
Ida

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

4 posted 2008-05-31 04:05 PM

Thanks, Ida. Sometimes I feel the need to break free. Other times I feel that I am already free.

- Owl

2islander2
Member Ascendant

since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

5 posted 2008-05-31 05:05 PM

Hello Owl, I enjoyed very much the pulse of your poem and its expression of intense freedom, you shared perfectly your joie de vivre...

have a nice day

yann

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

6 posted 2008-05-31 08:49 PM

"like an untamed, rainbow scarf"
Yes! That is such a great image!

serenity blaze
Member Empyrean

since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

7 posted 2008-05-31 10:05 PM

Oh MY!

Yanno? You'd fit right in with my bunch of witches! This pretty much sums up what we're all about anyhow--joyous celebration of the "now", both within us--and outside of us, in a glorious moment of giddy unity.

*shaking my head*

I just knew it!

unboundpoetess
Member

since 2008-05-24

Posts 477

8 posted 2008-06-01 12:01 PM

I read this aloud, it was so cleansing!
Made me want to shed my skin and run through the backyard.

Thank you for such a refreshing write.

~Heather

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

9 posted 2008-06-01 12:24 PM

Thanks, yann.  Sometimes the joie de vivre is there, and sometimes I have to plant it, nurture it and make sure it grows.

Glad you liked my untamed, rainbow scarf, Kacy.  Thanks for highlighting it.

"Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble" - how am I doing, Karen?  I have always wanted to be called a female dog - (had to remove a word because I got an Inappropriate Content Detected message) so that I can say, "what breed?", but nobody does.  I suppose being called a witch is pretty close!  I have often referred to my broom, so perhaps I am a more successful witch than I thought!  Giggles.

Thanks, Heather.  I have always felt that it is of primary importance - except perhaps for some very modern format poems - that one reads poetry aloud.  I am glad it sounded good and felt refreshing and cleansing.

- Owl

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