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this. precious. chattel. |
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bel1e Senior Member
since 2006-07-24
Posts 1631
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Ah, blue pieta, relent and darken the darker lodestone of sorrow, look your last on all things lovely, lure to blue the silver spine of poplars, satin leaves and cockleburs of gold cleavage, from the lavender’s bee-threshed exotic heat, its dark arteries a-burr with the splendor of heaven’s blue wound, a koan of wicks and blunt expiring, upon the black water at the secret center of the soul’s cradle, grim the hallowed gallows loom above the blue threshold of weeping, I am the utter poverty of God, his emptiness blurs into a spell of silverfish, schooling from my long, unlikely body, such a fluent and staggering answer, blue on blue, these puny ransoms for forever, ever after, out of darkness, we enter into darkness, repeat the Lotus Sutra, and I am dream, made flesh, the white hot root of my body awakens from it heavy integuments of Winter’s repeal, ah, blue pieta, relent and darken the cataract of one falling star to the bray of night, regret is nothing but a coddled wish, a breadth of light, burning at our doorjamb, made of oiled paper, lit and red, a vellum wound, pinked newsprint steaming with silver koi fish, my heart is a hollow zither, deaf with longing, a Gershwin lullaby glints against the clock glass, and hums, what is not yet lost, but will be, this puny chattel Winter banishes in moments, look your last, on all things lovely. |
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Dark Stranger Member Patricius
since 2001-03-19
Posts 13631West Coast |
bet you would break your little chair if your soul became rambunctiously stirred? enjoyed the sounds you made here |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
I'm pretty sure I remember this'n too.  I seem to recall the vexation of m'self as I pondered the line: "I am the utter poverty of god." I remember it, because I ran my head in circles for a couple of hours, trying to make that make sense to me. I think I've finally found an answer that suits me, although I won;t share it here now because-- sure it was your poem, but it was read in MY context. and b.--I could be wrong OR c I could be right. enjoyed, >) |
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Cpat Hair
since 2001-06-05
Posts 11793 |
a dense and layered piece it would seem... with great references to the art and feelings captured within it as well as the Budhist beliefs... wrapped around the inner core of soul..... you never cease to amaze me ma'am.... |
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bel1e Senior Member
since 2006-07-24
Posts 1631 |
LOL~~ daark~~ thanks for taking a peek inside~ |
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bel1e Senior Member
since 2006-07-24
Posts 1631 |
serenity~ yes, this is an older one of mine...thanks so much for taking the time to read & feel~ |
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bel1e Senior Member
since 2006-07-24
Posts 1631 |
Chief~ this is not new to you either~~ but the familiar warmth of your eyes is so welcome... XOXOXOXOX |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
I swear, you look at life through a painter's pallette and I love it. Always so colorful, so full of sound... Beautiful Bel1e! |
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bel1e Senior Member
since 2006-07-24
Posts 1631 |
~*~thanks so much, Sunshine~*~ |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
Nice...James |
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bel1e Senior Member
since 2006-07-24
Posts 1631 |
thanx so much, James~*~* |
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easy1 Senior Member
since 2010-05-22
Posts 1209Southeastern USA |
Your poems are not to be red too quickly, and indeed Winter can be quite stark. |
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bel1e Senior Member
since 2006-07-24
Posts 1631 |
Hey easy1~ Thanks so much for stopping in to read this one ~ |
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