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Dark Poetry #3

Swimming to the sun

bsquirrel

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

0 posted 2002-08-28 12:41 PM

I search my cup for her light,
wanting to understand the night.

The moon a white drop
in stone-nestled water.
I sip the coldness;
no different as I swallow.

A gray scrim of clouds
like cream, like vein
spells out letters
torn apart by the light.

She was searching for the sun.
Yellow paint on empty canvas,
smearing color in her hands
plunged one step of the rainbow.

She never swam, but pressed the waves,
pulled their faces to her breast.
To float or drown? She soaked the sand
upon her slow shore standing.

When she sang, heat-gray scrim
over yellow flare.
No device could withstand.
We distorted accordingly.

For an invisible audience
with one voice.
Absorbed
in noiseless space.

I sip the coldness.
The moon a white drop.
A coin
without a face.

[This message has been edited by bsquirrel (08-28-2002 12:43 PM).]

Anvrill
Senior Member

since 2002-06-21

Posts 710
in the interzone now

1 posted 2002-08-28 01:15 PM

Your words always have some sort of a distance or sorrow to them, baby. Sorry for rubbing off on you.

Beautiful piece. I love you.

i'll be waiting for you
do exactly what you're told

jm

[This message has been edited by Anvrill (08-28-2002 01:16 PM).]

bsquirrel

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

2 posted 2002-08-28 01:25 PM

I love you too. And it's good to purge the sadness when y' can. Better than wallowing.

Mikhail

Dragon Mistress
Member

since 2002-08-26

Posts 289
Washington, USA.

3 posted 2002-08-28 03:36 PM

This is nice. I envy your talent in writing! I love reading your work!

~*~I'm only a dreamer, with broken dreams, and only words to fall back on~*~

bsquirrel

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

4 posted 2002-08-28 03:52 PM

Thanks, Dragon Mistress! I enjoy yours, too.

Mike

brian sites
Senior Member

since 2002-06-25

Posts 1475
usa

5 posted 2002-08-29 01:11 AM

to float or drown?
the moon tastes
(published)
lonely
brian

bsquirrel

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

6 posted 2002-08-29 12:57 PM

Brian,
I like what you slipped in just there.

Mike

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