Open Poetry #4 |
Bird |
Seaangel Member
since 1999-07-27
Posts 167Auckland, New Zealand |
blue shadows over the hills -the hills that mean nothing. blue paper printing tree-outlines that glow solid in the unrepentant sun. common or garden fluoro red flowers hiding, intolerably in beauty -burn through blue, burn through cloud & tree & radio signals & dull nothingness burn through all of these, come through hand & eye to hot & solid smash, graze, crack into orange, into golden angel. no beauty will ease my guts today. the sun burns clear to what I don't want to see, poetically I am pinned to the ground, looking up, & watching you fly. there is sound & breeze, dance of life in birds, planes, & heroes the rhythmic swallow of atoms in wood, vegetation, wing, people. words glimmer as leaves on the branch words murmer as leaves on the branch the bowling of light over & over & through it all, the heat of it over skin the line of white that is the wind, over you I never wanted to be you, only to know that movement thinly independent of earth & thinly sealed from space. A movement of freedom to convulse me with gold, to metamorphosis, to make true my dreams. You tell me, bird, what it's like up there. I'll never know, so tell me of the sea's secret face, the top of trees, how it is to be wholly in blue, & never a whisper of corridors grimly trailed. What's it like to see forever so close? Or does the illusion vanish? |
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Jordan Lake New Member
since 1999-12-20
Posts 6 |
Very well written. I enjoyed your use of words... very well done! |
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Rod Member
since 1999-12-08
Posts 149Auckland New Zealand |
You've done it again Seaangel! Simply soars with airborne imagery! Loved it. Rod |
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Marge Tindal
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
SeaAngel - Such lovely thoughts of winged creatures. My heart soared among them. ~*Marge*~ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ [email protected] |
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Denise
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
I've often wondered the same! I enjoyed this Seaangel! Denise |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
This is excellent Seaangel--I could feel it so keenly, as if I wasn't reading but seeing into your heart. |
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