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bel1e
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since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

0 posted 2010-08-16 07:09 AM

Night is a house of glass I build
with this impossible chirping,
chain reaction of bird-hollow notes
upon the soft felts and sinews
of Rapunzel's clock,

keeping time and insomnia
in the trembling garden of my body,

of all the gifts
you could have given,
this frozen bird that is whisked away
at the last chime, back
through a clenched mosaic of doors
to hoard the intervening hours in the dark,

a cuckoo trpped in a cupboard
becomes the tightened heart
I tune my body to,

the crumbs of afternoons, absences,
the gaining dark, moments-in-waiting,like damsels,
the day's blood,
the night's phantom in an hourglass,
and such violent blooming,

of all the gifts
you could have given,
this blue trembling skein of silk
to dream a braided stair, a noose
to soothe healing's own dark dressing, blue
as the cords that bind me to the cuckoo's white noise,
beneath my body's muted fable,
this rampant lonliness
with its few, brief & desperate eruptions of hope.

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~from The Caliban Ballads

Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

1 posted 2010-08-16 07:26 AM

Beautiful as always Ma'am.....
and you know I am fond of the tales you say this is from..

good to read this morning..as it is always good to read you..

Balladeer

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since 1999-06-05

Posts 25505
Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA

2 posted 2010-08-16 08:04 AM

So much talent on this site I have not given proper attention to and you are certainly one. I'm going to correct that...

Very beautiful writing, miss. Not a topic I would have thought of for a poem, even though my ex did drive me cuckoo at times!

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

3 posted 2010-08-16 08:39 AM

thanks Chief~

XOXOXOX

bel1e
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since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

4 posted 2010-08-16 08:40 AM

Balladeer~

LOL~~ thanks so much for reading my poem !

Amaryllis
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since 2010-05-20

Posts 1306
Mi now

5 posted 2010-08-16 09:50 AM

I find this achingly beautiful and sad.. layered in metaphor.. I am drawn to this type of poetry, (even though my own scribblings can be so bald)..like a stereoscopic `magic eye` print.. at first a lovely panoply of color and image; yet the longer and deeper you look, the clearer the true picture becomes.. and when it snaps into final focus, it`s so... amazing, so worth it! I just keep returning for another look.
~Amaryllis

bel1e
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since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

6 posted 2010-08-16 09:57 AM

Amaryllis~

goodness...thank you for such a lovely, heartfelt review of the poem...I am so pleased you can feel it~

Dark Stranger
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since 2001-03-19

Posts 13631
West Coast

7 posted 2010-08-16 01:18 PM

even with her head shaved and the newest tattoos, Rapunzel was weaving her charms like golden braids...just as you weave your words BB-Bel1e

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

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8 posted 2010-08-16 01:26 PM

you sure gotta way with words, girl!

bel1e
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since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

9 posted 2010-08-16 03:20 PM

Thanks so much, dark one~*~*

bel1e
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since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

10 posted 2010-08-16 03:21 PM

passing shadows~~~

(((thank you))) for the kind words~

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