Drawing Down The Hunger Moon (redux)

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Open Poetry #49

Drawing Down The Hunger Moon (redux)

icebox
Member Elite

since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

0 posted 2014-02-15 12:40 PM

This time of year
I'm as wasted as a ray of sunshine
when all the world wants sleep.

I watch,
peripatetic eyes of others' souls
wander aimlessly,
little lost puppies
more like food for the keep
than possible companions;
this time of year
nothing holds me dear.

It's moons like this when I remember
ease of running free,
cutting all the cloying threads
of faith's humanity,
when none could stand before me
when anger was set free;
this time of year,
it is easy to peel away
thin buckled veneer
to sear the underbelly of soft propriety
and sheer away,
a ricochet screaming out of sight;
last night,
the tremolo wail of a moonstruck coyote
drifted tight through Winter's crack
in a window by my head.

He said, "Come join me,
I am hunting
along this frozen river's bed
and I tire of being lonely in the night."

          ©2004, 2007, 2014 by icebox

EmmaRose
Senior Member

since 2011-03-02

Posts 1376
Midwest

1 posted 2014-02-15 01:55 PM

Even in the supposedly barren world, there is life. I enjoyed the primal feel to this

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

2 posted 2014-02-15 02:00 PM

To be as one with the keepers of the forest even is a dream is a magnificent feeling.

~*~ Life is simpler when you plow around the stump. ~*~

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

3 posted 2014-02-15 02:43 PM

You are an alchemist Sir Icebox! You take cold gray snow and ice and weave a colorful tapestry such as this. Amazing!

Lori

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

4 posted 2014-02-16 05:47 PM

Charly, as superb as ever a poem of yours is. I adore the coyote part, and read it in slow motion, wanting to hold the picture in my mind. I was right there, and I heard him, I saw him, and I felt his presence.

Owl

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

5 posted 2014-02-17 05:39 AM

Shivers of emotion rise from your intense words here, dear Charly.

Margherita

Pweisbrod
Junior Member

since 2011-10-14

Posts 27

6 posted 2014-02-18 08:57 PM

Really great. Felt crisp and cold.

latearrival
Member Ascendant

since 2003-03-21

Posts 5499
Florida

7 posted 2014-02-22 01:07 PM

Charly, just spotted this one.Guess I was not here that day. Very touching,it shivers through my soul. best to you , jo

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