The essense of imagination

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Open Poetry #13

The essense of imagination

Decaflame
Senior Member

since 2001-05-11

Posts 1635

0 posted 2001-05-15 09:49 AM

The essence of imagination. . .

slowly took over
not slithering like a snake,
but still,
that wormlike feeling
of being invaded

by a power greater

not of a lightning bolt,

nor like a flash

but a slow, insidious movement

looking for some fertile spot
in which to curl,

or perhaps it was more
like a whirligig of a seed
being thrown by the winds of time
onto that same spot of
fertile

burrowing in,
nature’s own movement
to promote life

if not love

corporeal thoughts, indeed,

ready to establish
a root,
lacking water,
still insistent, as life is,
to begin

a tear drop is sometimes
all that is required
to feed life
to a seed
in need

imagination’s tears
begin to shed
light

by its pure essence

slowly the seed
pushes down the root,
while tendrils curl upward
toward light

slowly the imagination of essence
was fulfilled by that
invasion of life

uncurled and unfurled,
a moment of beauty
born from

the essence of imagination….

Sudhir Iyer
Member Ascendant

since 2000-04-26

Posts 6943
Mumbai, India : now in Belgium

1 posted 2001-05-15 09:52 AM

Exceptional!

Regards,
Sudhir

INclan
Senior Member

since 1999-07-20

Posts 1024
Indiana, USA

2 posted 2001-05-15 09:53 AM

OUTSTANDING! I really enjoyed reading this....well done!

Mysteria

Member Laureate

since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

3 posted 2001-05-15 10:37 AM

Oh but I love a metaphor being squeezed for all it is worth, and you used them beautifully in this piece, exceptional is right, great writing Decaflame!

~*~ I write ~ Therefore I am ~*~

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Decaflame
Senior Member

since 2001-05-11

Posts 1635

4 posted 2001-05-15 12:13 PM

Sudhir, I've read your works. An exceptional from you is humbling. Thank you...

INclan, thank you so very much for this...

Mysteria, squeezed like good lemonade, indeed, thank you for reading....

Sven

Member Laureate

since 1999-11-23

Posts 14937
East Lansing, MI USA

5 posted 2001-05-15 05:37 PM

This is outstanding. . . very well done. . .

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