Tin Azaleas and Sugar Dreams

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Open Poetry #46

Tin Azaleas and Sugar Dreams

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

0 posted 2010-07-07 07:05 AM

Clothe me
in the mirth of tabrets
and tin dreams, leave me bruises
marked by lilacs, and nothing else,
drink deep of the body’s nectar
and break apart the words that bind us,

mandolins and amber, names
for the daughters we will never have,

bring forth moths to gnaw
the edges of an hour of stalled pendulums,
humming in their dark spectrums,
all silken fire and angry grace,
as I pull around me this shawl of rain,

for like Gretel, I have learned
where the sugar lies in the dark,
dark center of myth, night
closes around me like a fist
and I am nothing
but a broken spell, a fever,

a fever, red
falling prey
to whiskey’s sour hymn,
flush as the lining of a heart,
and the azaleas, ceaseless,
split apart my palm.

Dark Stranger
Member Patricius

since 2001-03-19

Posts 13631
West Coast

1 posted 2010-07-07 07:16 AM

I would name a daughter tomorrow and another yesterday..so everyone would call to them in their dreams...

enjoyed you bb-bel1e

easy1
Senior Member

since 2010-05-22

Posts 1209
Southeastern USA

2 posted 2010-07-07 09:52 AM

Well, thanks for this. Good stuff again, as if you didn't know.

I just did look at my palm and, yes, I can see an azalea bush there---albeit a bit leggy---and I haven't even been drinking alcoholic beverages today... yet.

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

3 posted 2010-07-07 10:10 AM

hey Dark One~~

thanks so much for looking in on me~~~

xoxox

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

4 posted 2010-07-07 10:11 AM

easy1~

you made me laugh~ LOL

Thanks so much for stopping by to read & for the smiles~

love & light

Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

5 posted 2010-07-07 10:59 AM

Lovely as always ma'am...

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

6 posted 2010-07-07 11:13 AM

thanks Chief~*~

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