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GG
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since 2002-12-03

Posts 3532
Lost in thought

0 posted 2015-05-19 10:38 PM

I watch your words as if the slant of their rhythm in the air
might find a way to curve against my spine.
Your vowels stretch sometimes like cradles beneath me
and I hang above them, hungry to tuck myself
into your consonants. Into the bulk of your exclamations.
Carry me like poetry.
Carry me like symphonies.
Carry me, a pencil creased into your hand,
and write me, til I understand.
Carry me close!
Speak your words, soft.
Enunciate your thoughts.
It's hard to hear sometimes...
Repeat your rhymes.
Repeat your rhymes.
Repeat
your rhymes and
sing me lullabies. Hold the notes against my skin.
Trace them with your fingertips until your nails flint a spark.
My body is a question mark.
Ask me. Ask me. Ask me if I understand.
Just carve the answers in my hands.
Scribble syllables, like twine, around my heart
until you lift me up off of the ground,
until I feel the murmur of your sounds.

I watch your words...
as if the slant of their rhythm in the cold
might be enough to hold me.
Might be enough to burn these books
of words I can't escape. The volumes of her hate...
If you can find me,
be my braille in the dark.
My body is a question mark.

Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

1 posted 2015-05-19 11:27 PM

I like this. It shows how enrapturing the power of word can be... to the point where the reading feels an absolute need to be absorbed into those words. To be part of them, and/or the author. Nice image to ponder.

Michael

OLIAS
Senior Member

since 2000-06-20

Posts 1090
Pearl city Iowa

2 posted 2015-05-20 12:38 PM

Tactile and eloquent, very much enjoyed, thank you for sharing, OLIAS

Is this heaven?

shoeless Joe Jackson.

2islander2
Member Ascendant

since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

3 posted 2015-05-20 01:26 AM

this is a persuasive poem, i loved the use of words and words for communicating the feelings, the rythm of the poem is convincing, thanks

yann

devina
Member Elite

since 1999-10-28

Posts 3539
Cali

4 posted 2015-05-20 09:06 AM

LOVE everything about this! You have quite the knack for inclusion on this sensuously arched message...in motion.

nicely done!
~d

"...But a tyrant spell has bound me,
And I cannot, cannot go...
~Emily Bronte
'The Night is Darkening Around Me'

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

5 posted 2015-05-20 09:12 AM

Deep. thunderous meanings within this poetical endeavor . . .

quote:
I watch your words...
as if the slant of their rhythm in the cold
might be enough to hold me.

Absolutely stunning!

~*~ When they give you ruled paper write sideways. ~*~

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

6 posted 2015-06-03 08:57 PM

enjoyed reading this...james

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