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bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

0 posted 2012-03-22 07:08 PM

Come May
the hot pink peonies
will no doubt explode
in my head,

thromboses of love
to soothe regret
and suspend grief,

I've blackened my sills with asphalt, 'till then,
tarred the sash, the marrow dark
and drowned in silt and husks,

for there is a night
I've not slept in, yet,
a sleep I've not slept,

in the sapling's mnemonic quiver,
I've kept a pink eulogy of pirouettes
past the body's temperature at rest,
past waking,

this body of old wounds
seethes in its deep blue rinds of night sweats,
and visions, and hives,

Mary is a myth,
a muted dove biding her own sweet time in bed,
in the bell tower that chimes
on the hour, hunkering
her descent

and the darkening of the road,
behind it, impassable,
sealed as scar tissue
over a barely remembered wound,

stay now, my love,
in the foreseeable whatever,
the here and now, stay

betwixt my Restless Leg Syndrome,
discretionary income,
and the oft forgotten tinctures of loam and mud,

so much may unfurl
upon a greying garden,

meet me in the dovecote,
reconcile my wrists against yours,

smash my kisses in the plum dark well,
where kisses go to bide their time,
rapt and terrible.

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

1 posted 2012-03-22 07:28 PM

"I've blackened my sills with asphalt, 'till then,
tarred the sash, the marrow dark
and drowned in silt and husks,"

Ah, gloom is foreseeable and the shutters and all manner of openings shall be closed tight and blackened in a grave attempt to be graven.

Everything here is a getting ready to disdain any thoughts of happiness and luv . . . Where even the kisses are "rapt and terrible."

I think.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

2 posted 2012-03-22 07:47 PM

Mr. Pat~

That's one mighty fine tuned ear to my temper tantrum, here

You are already quite used to my nonsense, huh?

Thanks for being here, you~*~

xoxo

JL
Member Ascendant

since 2004-04-01

Posts 6128
Texas, USA

3 posted 2012-03-23 09:15 AM

"betwixt my Restless Leg Syndrome,
discretionary income,
and the oft forgotten tinctures of loam and mud,

so much may unfurl
upon a greying garden,

meet me in the dovecote,
reconcile my wrists against yours,

smash my kisses in the plum dark well,
where kisses go to bide their time,
rapt and terrible."
--------------------------------------------

Sounds like a hungry cat on a hot terracotta
roof.

This too will pass.
And, I love reading every word.

Nice, kid-o...

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!

Nicole
Senior Member

since 1999-06-23

Posts 1835
Florida

4 posted 2012-03-23 09:23 AM

I felt such frustration in this (maybe it's my own and I'm amplifying) - the last stanza made me shiver. Nice..

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

5 posted 2012-03-23 05:52 PM

ha ha~~~ JL

gotta love that kitty~*~*~
Thanks, dear friend!

XOXO

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

6 posted 2012-03-23 05:55 PM

Hey Nicole~

I believe there is a very real element of frustration running through this one...so it's not your imagination! Thus is the destiny of the Sleeping Beauty~*~

Thanks for the read!

ice
Member Elite

since 2003-05-17

Posts 3404
Pennsylvania

7 posted 2012-03-24 08:32 AM

How did I miss this one? Glad I found it...:-)

Here again, you are Alice..making every word profitable, listening to
Humpty Dumpty:

"That's a great deal to make one word mean," Alice said in a thoughtful tone.
"When I make a word do a lot of work like that," said Humpty Dumpty, "I always pay it extra."

Your search for the right words seem to come without effort, but I know that is not true,
You pay for them with sweat,and time,
And you give your readers all the profits from that payment...

Thank you

"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance."
Carl Sandburg

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

8 posted 2012-03-26 01:10 PM

icy~*~*~

(((Thank you))) for the heartfelt reply (you know you are only encouraging me to further madness), luv~*~*

XOXO

aujussy wolf

Senior Member

since 2003-08-09

Posts 1215
Michigan

9 posted 2012-03-29 03:18 PM

for there is a night
I've not slept in, yet,
a sleep I've not slept

I didn't sleep last night either : )
Great to read your writings again!
I like the ending a lot and the start too. I can't wait till May.

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

10 posted 2012-03-29 03:25 PM

WoLfy~~~

(((crazy hugs to you, man))) So nice to see you on these Blue pages!

Thanks for checking this out...hopefully I can pull something outta my sleeve for May...LOL...I'll try....

XOXOXOX

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

11 posted 2012-03-29 10:17 PM

Nice writing...James

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

12 posted 2012-03-30 01:20 PM

Thanks James!

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