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bel1e
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0 posted 2012-01-20 12:45 PM

This is a map
drawn from memory,
through a streaming speculum of echoes
upon meager parchment, burning
in exile and erasure,

comes the sound of glass split
in half, shards
of chirping in the window,
trickle of daylight and ash,
and the quickening pitch of the darkbody,
chiming, glassbody

breaking into sweat,
breaking into rivers,

amid its bruises and wildflowers,
a wing sewn by hand, my hands
tended like candles for a storm, in yours,
fall through the night’s caesura,

faces against the glass,
hold a fine geometry of fingerprints
in the cicada’s heavy breath,

a phantom, a rainstorm,
the fragile lace of a collar
binds the inconsolable pitch
of the body, risen
from rows of indigo roses,

an old wound tingles close to the heart,
routes, inroads, maps
its anatomy all tangles in calico
and glass and poppies,

how these jagged seasons of the moon
keep the darkhorse body
sequestered in a shuttered room,
with its heat like a leash
in your palm, wrapped,
rapt, is the secret of waking
the flesh, out of nothing,

come shining, you said,
for I have you in hand.

Nicole
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1 posted 2012-01-20 09:51 PM

Damn... wow, this is what dark stuff is made of. Your imagery is impeccable.

Amaryllis
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2 posted 2012-01-20 11:16 PM

How gorgeous....I can almost smell this poem....your writing is such a sensate experience.

Amaryllis

bel1e
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3 posted 2012-01-21 07:58 AM

Nicole~

Thanks so much for your wonderful reply !

bel1e
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4 posted 2012-01-21 07:59 AM

A~

Thank you! I am so pleased you enjoyed reading this~

ice
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5 posted 2012-01-21 09:15 AM

You did it again bell,
sent me off on a journey
to try to understand..
This is where your typeset sent me..
And what I saw
As I traveled along with you on your poetic journey.

History-- a guide
Etched on gray ash matter
That no eraser can blot;
Always it remains, and
When surface brought--
Is reseen through clear glass memory.

Always a storm;
Unhealed the sore festers
Roads folowed turn into deer trails,
Then are lost to brushy paths,
Filled with shards,
And wax flowers.

A returning from insolent thought
Before heat smothers her
Awake from her daydream
Of someone gone,
Having never really left
But always remains within mindreach.

Another fine poem by you,
loved the read.

नमस्ते

bel1e
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6 posted 2012-01-21 09:50 AM

My dearest iceman,

Thank you for the poetic responses to my lunacy! That anything I can write could illicit so much thought and emotion in you....is a treasure <3.... ::::adoring amber eyes::::

Kit McCallum

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7 posted 2012-01-21 10:37 AM

The visuals and flow in this are amazing Bel1e ... Beautiful imagery to treat the mind's eye. Loved this!

Best wishes,
/Kit

bel1e
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8 posted 2012-01-21 12:50 PM

Thanks so much. Kit!

secondhanddreampoet
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9 posted 2012-01-21 01:20 PM

grand-fine imagery as always!!

bel1e
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10 posted 2012-01-21 03:21 PM

Thanks second-hand!

JerryPat2
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11 posted 2012-01-21 06:02 PM

Oh ,uh, I am awash with your happenstance and devious plots and schemes. Haha Love this . . .

~*~ I gave up feeling guilty just to survive a long time ago ~*~

[This message has been edited by JerryPat2 (01-21-2012 06:37 PM).]

JL
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12 posted 2012-01-21 06:10 PM

"come shining, you said,
for I have you in hand."

After all is said and done...

Enjoyed the read.

JL

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,and with all your mind. Love your neighbor as yourself.
Maranatha!

bel1e
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13 posted 2012-01-21 10:09 PM

Thanks Mr. Pat! LOL...devious, huh?

bel1e
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14 posted 2012-01-21 10:09 PM

Thanks JL~

So glad u enjoyed it~

XOXO

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15 posted 2012-01-22 02:59 AM

just

WOW

bel1e
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16 posted 2012-01-22 10:47 AM

Thanks, Alison!

suthern

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17 posted 2012-01-23 12:19 PM

sequestered in a shuttered room,
with its heat like a leash
in your palm, wrapped,

This was mesmerizing, magical... magnificent! *S*

bel1e
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18 posted 2012-01-23 12:34 PM

Thanks Suthern!

SO glad you enjoyed reading this!

XOXO

Michael

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19 posted 2012-01-23 11:42 PM

I've read this thoroughly about 5 times now and have been rendered speechless nearly every time. Amazing imagery... Love the "indigo roses"... and and especially great finish. Cannot compliment this one enough.

Michael

ebonygirl
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20 posted 2012-01-24 12:23 PM

Hey Bel,
This is so well done, loved the glass and darkhorse theme. Ms E

bel1e
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21 posted 2012-01-24 06:19 AM

Michael~~

Thank you for spending so much time with this one...it is...one that defines me...personally...means a lot to me!

xoxo

bel1e
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22 posted 2012-01-24 06:20 AM

Ms E~

Thank you! so glad u liked it!

Dark Stranger
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23 posted 2012-01-24 10:20 AM

BBBel1e, your windows are always just lucid enough for the eyes to watch without seeing everything. Enjoyed you little one.

bel1e
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24 posted 2012-01-24 10:33 AM

Thanks Daddy~~~ for the eys...and keen vision (as ever)~

XOXO

JamesMichael
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25 posted 2012-01-29 12:01 PM

Fine writing...James

bel1e
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26 posted 2012-01-29 11:24 AM

Thanks, James!

Balladeer

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27 posted 2012-01-30 09:02 AM

After reading the WHite Knight I had to read the Dark Horse and, bel1e, I don't say it often enough, but you are really brilliant. Your words are like the flakes in a snowglobe, mesmerizing while drifting down, and then beautiful to view the scene as the last word drifts down and settles in to complete the beauty.

In other words....I like you!!!!

bel1e
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28 posted 2012-01-30 10:58 AM

Balladeer~

(((Thank you))) for such a wonderful response...and for linking the two poems...they are very much in the same vein!

XOXO

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