kaleidoscopic history (Happy Birthday Ron)

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Lady Goodman
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since 2012-10-04

Posts 193

0 posted 2013-01-24 07:19 AM

Grains of sand
between my toes
dried in the sun
but not too slow
I had those rows
of wet sand molds--
I counted six of them.

They crumbled in the sun
and fell
like siftings from the sea
could make
a cake of crystal flour sewn
from the efforts of my own
ten toes
alive and wiggling.

A towel wiped away the dust
of mighty mountains crumbled up
still landing on my feet--
again
I win another day.

I take a grain and lift it up
I let the sun do what it does--
refract the crystal lines on me
ten toes
alive and wiggling

kaleidoscopic history

of mighty mountains crumbled up
then weathered down to bottom sea
in gathered bold ungatherings
to whisper one fine wish to me:

"Please help me learn, I need to be
a brick, with brethren brick, and strong."
A crystal on my thumb begged me
to make it into majesty
(or at least facsimile--
a street, a stoop, a ...throne?)

"Or perhaps you will be grout."
I languid, blew a world away
free from the bottom
of my thumb
and all of the complexities
the physics
and the loyalty
annoying in tenacity
against the odds veracity
to find in one the quality

the strength, to be a brick.

* * *

Thank you so much for your generous hospitality.

Margherita
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since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

1 posted 2013-01-24 04:22 PM

You have such a kaleidoscopic mind, dear Karen! Loved this exceptional offering for Ron's birthday.

Love and smiles.
Margherita

latearrival
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since 2003-03-21

Posts 5499
Florida

2 posted 2013-01-24 04:43 PM

Just as Margherita wrote,I admire your beautiful wonderous mind. jo

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

3 posted 2013-02-03 01:05 AM

Fine writing and Happy Birthday Ron...James

Ron

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-05-19

Posts 8669
Michigan, US

4 posted 2013-02-03 09:32 AM

I missed this the first time around?

Thanks for the kind wishes and the lovely, lovely poem.

Lady Goodman
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since 2012-10-04

Posts 193

5 posted 2013-02-04 08:19 AM

Lady Goodman
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since 2012-10-04

Posts 193

6 posted 2013-02-08 11:24 PM

This was inspired, if inspired it can be called, by Ron, and many more I won't name. (I'm pretty sure I'd forget someone, and have to come back to assure them, with my guilty conscience, that they most certainly were included.)

The last line, about the brick, was inspired by a quote I first heard in a movie:

"As Louis Khan once said, “Even a Brick wants to be something!”

In that movie, Woody Harrelson played an architect, and when he said that, it did resonate in me as solid words of truth.

And yet, had I been in the class his character was portrayed as teaching, I would have probably muttered that the grains of sand that comprised the brick also aspired--that being a brick was no small thing. I would have expressed the overwhelming amazement I feel on a beach, as my thoughts wander to the origin of all that sand--which ones came from mountains, which ones from the deepest bottom of the sea, and which ones had drifted my way after being a simple stone that housed Kings and Queens...

That there, above is the way I think. It's why I'm called crazy, and why I get migraines.

But it is also why I aspire to be a poet.

Happy Birthday Aquarians.

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