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bsquirrel

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

0 posted 2002-09-23 05:07 PM

Seven of Cups:
Confide choice to one day.
Open hand to snake
or wreath.

Eight of Cups:
He dropped his hand,
dropped gnawed bones,
dropped his weights,
dropped intent,
dropped old love,
dropped his skin,
dropped hurt stance;
closed distance.

Nine of Cups:
"Feel me,"
her voice
is throwing dust.

"Feel me,"
her mouth
in slow combust.

"Feel me,"
molten need
of must.

"Feel me,"
two notes
deny rust.

Ten of Cups:
Fulfillment is a stair
traveling from there to there,
and also from here to here.
Rain painted light; watch it clear.

Page of Cups:
You there -- poet --
come sing to me.
Come dream of colors new to me.
Come play blue words softly to me.
Come open rooms I failed to see.
Show me.

Let's taste the lips of poetry.
Let's drink the mouths of every sea.
Let's hide strength in fragility.
Oh to find love's frailty.
You there -- poet --

me.

Knight of Cups:
Head down,
held out.

Hold on.

Queen of Cups:
She stares
at the magnificence
of ripples;
a rainy dream
in trained eyes.

King of Cups:
A line of fire
met the ocean;
traced out waves of steam.

wranx
Member Elite

since 2002-06-07

Posts 3689
Moved from a shack to a barn

1 posted 2002-09-23 05:36 PM

Well, squirrel dude?
One day you'll be glad for the effort. These are a treasure.

~Ed

bsquirrel

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

2 posted 2002-09-23 07:00 PM

Thank you, wranx.
I think they're showing some of my best and some of my worst,
which is all I could ask for, I suppose.

Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

3 posted 2002-09-24 08:12 AM

how did the tarot become your theme here? I have searched abck and read the others in this series, and find you do a good job with all, of walking through the cards and possible meanings as well as the symbolism they might have. Enjoyed these Mike...

Anvrill
Senior Member

since 2002-06-21

Posts 710
in the interzone now

4 posted 2002-09-24 11:04 AM

Wow... There's a reference to one o' my behaviours in there.

Nah, I'm not back. At school, Hotmail ain't workin', and my 'net at home is down... Just need to touch base, make contact, reaffirm my whole bein' alive thing. Tell you I love you. Worship yr poetry. Y'know.

*sigh* I hope my 'net's back online soon, so I can tell you about my awful Saturday night that you failed to ask questions about, even though I coulda died... *sniffsniff*

your tongue's like poison
so swollen it fills up my mouth

rs

bsquirrel

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

5 posted 2002-09-24 12:47 PM

Ron,
I am a madman. That is why I am attempting this.

Actually, I read a poem by wranx called In the Cards,
where the tarot is used as both wisdom
and seduction tool
(pass the red)

I then wrote an apocryphal poem,
Die, your majesty,
which deals with someone
killing the queen of cups.

Then I realized,
I had no idea
what the queen of cups
represented.

I found a tarot site,
read up on her,
and was horrified to see
I was about to murder dreams/creativity.

As atonement,
I decided I'd wrap up the tarot
(and fix the poem so
no one would ever know
its ugly beginnings).

See?
Madman!

Lori,
*kiss*
I love you.
I did ask you about Saturday.
I miss you.
Feel me.
(behaviours? you're cute!)
from rose to green-eyed skull?

Mikhail

[This message has been edited by bsquirrel (09-24-2002 12:49 PM).]

serenity blaze
Member Empyrean

since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

6 posted 2002-09-24 01:00 PM

The Queen of Cups?

Is pleased....VERY pleased.

(offering a sip from chalice)

sip deep, but allow

this nectar

to entice the lips again

for 'nother sip...

as though your tongue grew feet

and waded deep

into the ocean...

1.(If I get any more mystical? someone? find my lithium!)

2.(Just kidding, folks, I'm not on meds.)

POP QUIZ...which of the above statements do you find, less reasurring?

Serious mike, I've been waiting for this batch....and? chuckling now...when you are done with all? I have a NEW assignment for ya!

bsquirrel

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

7 posted 2002-09-24 01:03 PM

Ooh, now I am intrigued!

And Sen, that verse you wrote up
made me thirsty
in many ways.

The least reassuring?
Embarrassed to be mystical.

Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

8 posted 2002-09-25 06:42 AM

madman? ( chuckling) I think not....

An interesting series and with your explanation, I can see the progressions in a different light...

bsquirrel

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

9 posted 2002-09-25 02:29 PM

Slow comin', isn't it, Ron?

Want REAAAL slow comin'? Check out my Diastonene series, on a current state of hiatus.

I love whipping myself raw with projects, I suppose.

Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

10 posted 2002-09-26 07:35 AM

Iambe is slow...so I understand how "projects" eveolve in their own time reality. I usually can find Iambe lingering somewhere in the shades of my thought, but she isn't always one to talk or be talked about, she's just there.

I'll have to do a search...I am sure it will lead me to ven more good reading.

bsquirrel

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

11 posted 2002-09-26 12:09 PM

I'm gonna check out your Iambe series as soon as I have some time. My mind is salivating at the thought (which has the side effect of getting spit all over my brain)

Anyway...

brian sites
Senior Member

since 2002-06-25

Posts 1475
usa

12 posted 2002-09-28 04:05 AM

been waiting to reply to this
read the other ones again
then this
very much the same?
but this set
seems
more...
um
Vivid to me
bolder lines
popping out
surer
or something
can't quite put finger on

take a deep breath, dude
you going to finish?
please?
lot more to go
but,
your readers
you know......
think about them

(pressurepressure)
ahhh
just tell me to shut up
or to go write sumphin
damn
b

bsquirrel

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

13 posted 2002-09-28 01:00 PM

Go write something.

I will write more
when I have th' time.

PoeticGoddessOfDepression
Member

since 2002-07-02

Posts 439
I am everywhere

14 posted 2002-09-28 01:50 PM

"Come dream of colors new to me.
Come play blue words softly to me.
Come open rooms I failed to see.
Show me."

Worded in perfection.

fractal007
Senior Member

since 2000-06-01

Posts 1958

15 posted 2002-09-28 11:24 PM

An interesting poem. I especially liked the way you used the extended metaphor of a card game in the creation of such vivid and poetically asthetic words. Good job.

"If history is to change, let it change. If the world is to be destroyed, so be it. If my fate is to die, I must simply laugh"

-- Magus

WhileIWasGone
Member

since 2002-07-18

Posts 486

16 posted 2002-09-29 03:34 PM

Great work as always M....enjoyed!

H.

bsquirrel

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

17 posted 2002-10-01 04:19 PM

Thank you all.

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