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Brad
Member Ascendant

since 1999-08-20

Posts 5705
Jejudo, South Korea

0 posted 2010-11-06 08:28 AM

Thoughts of how and why will surface later
uncontrolled. For now, the yellow scarf
burns: burns slowly, burns quietly
matching the gentle, evening waves,
the light of luminescent froth.
While its smoke hides cuttlefish boats
still lining the horizon, their lights
shine through combining with the tide,
breeze, and ash. They replace contorted
memories of nameless constellations
in speckled blood. They briefly distance
his final vision of her with nearby stars.
For the scrambled man, the martial-arts master
and his woman frame and sieve and guard
the light from fire, from boats, from froth.
Before the blaming and the breakdown come,
let ritual do its work:
pulsing dimly, brightly, a fragmentary order.

JerryPat
Senior Member

since 2010-10-30

Posts 1991
Louisiana/America

1 posted 2010-11-06 01:36 PM

Mysterious and intriguing is this one. There is an old saying among thieves after a successful robbery, "Let's spend the evidence," and that is how this poem spoke to me.

. . . and the Raven said, %!~#&(&#!$!

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

2 posted 2010-11-06 07:40 PM

Brad, it is so good to read you again!

Welcome home!

eminor_angel
Member

since 2003-05-22

Posts 323
Canada

3 posted 2010-11-06 10:03 PM

good job.

Brad
Member Ascendant

since 1999-08-20

Posts 5705
Jejudo, South Korea

4 posted 2010-11-10 07:23 AM

Thanks for reading.

Um, Sun, I just wish I had more time. I really can't spend much time on the internet.

This was written more than a year ago: a ritual as a way of controlling ourselves when someone we love dies.

serenity blaze
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since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

5 posted 2010-11-10 05:36 PM

"let ritual do its work"

You still surprise me.

I felt it--the confusion, the fog, and the determination that comes from places in ourselves that we never knew was there...

The harsh lesson of bittersweet reality that as unfair and difficult life might be, it's still beautiful, even through pain.

You are missed, Brad.

Amaryllis
Senior Member

since 2010-05-20

Posts 1306
Mi now

6 posted 2010-11-10 11:57 PM

Magnificent writing... so impressive, I am in love with this.
.
Amaryllis

Brad
Member Ascendant

since 1999-08-20

Posts 5705
Jejudo, South Korea

7 posted 2010-11-11 11:38 AM

Thanks again.

Um. This is real. We really burned the scarf.

serenity blaze
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since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

8 posted 2010-11-11 06:35 PM

I knew that...but just because it's real doesn't eliminate it as an excellent metaphor either.

Remember what you told me--people don't need to know, so shaddup and let them think you're briliant.

*touching the screen*

Be well, Brad.

Brad
Member Ascendant

since 1999-08-20

Posts 5705
Jejudo, South Korea

9 posted 2010-11-13 09:36 AM

always a good point.

I forget my own thoughts at times.

Alison

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since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

10 posted 2010-11-17 01:30 AM

Brad,

I really like this. -- and I agree with serenity.

Alison

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