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Open Poetry #47

The echo of a whisper I

blankmirrors
Junior Member

since 2010-07-16

Posts 14

0 posted 2011-03-06 11:38 PM

Our words
Translate the mother tongue of our life
Into a foreign language.

*  *   *

In the sleepless land of words
We dismember our pain.
Then, like gods,
We compose it again.

*   *   *

There are words, barefoot as the rain,
Which I seldom say,
That nourish
The spoken ones.

*   *   *

Phrases, my solitary islands,
End, like a shipwrecked day,
In a shout that won’t  surface.

EmmaRose
Senior Member

since 2011-03-02

Posts 1376
Midwest

1 posted 2011-03-07 08:58 AM

If our words don't speak, will our thoughts still echo? I often wonder.

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

2 posted 2011-03-07 08:58 AM

I like this it really speaks to me. I'm off to read the rest of your series!
Lori

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

3 posted 2011-03-07 10:10 AM

Raquel, in a hurry between finishing work for the day and preparing to leave for a Sector Policing Forum meeting and for which I still have a little to print out, and along with playing with my puppy who will be one year old tomorrow, I have just popped into Pip (our nickname for the poetry forum). I have read your reply to my poem and had an extremely quick read of your 3 poems here and a tiny taste of your trilogy of mirrors. I see you are a poet of excellence and when I have time (ha ha ha! - what is time? I have heard of it, but . . . ) I am going to read every bit of your poetry I can find. Welcome to Pip! It is the nicest poetry forum you will ever find with many very good poets and very kind, compassionate people.

I will reply to your response to my poem later, as I am only allowing myself to read before the meeting, except for this one reply.

I see you are also are an "animally" person - or I gather so, otherwise you wouldn't have mentioned your kitty cats.

Owl

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