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Open Poetry #24

Hopeless Opus

Corinne
Member Ascendant

since 1999-10-28

Posts 5167
state of confusion

0 posted 2002-12-27 09:53 AM

She gathers in the heather, rolls across meadows,
her songs heard clearly in the gloaming -
harsh, moaning arias of loss
caught in sister wind’s severed throat.

She lashes out in anguish, leaves her mark on Cypress trees,
they yield to her will where sea meets bluff,
carrying her voice high and shrill,

an out of tune piano’s absurd, highest notes,
ruthlessly banging at loosened windows,
catlike feet on creaking wooden floors:

witch of insomnia; chimera of the unresolved,
she stirs wicked smiles into a man’s interrupted dreams,
stretches her cold paws with claws extended.

She’ll haunt his winters well into spring
with ancient hurts she wants him to claim,
to accept her gift of guilt,

to writhe in her icy embrace with no warmth
of the wood fire, no peat to burn past midnight;
she’ll leave him bloodless.

Corinne

garysgirl

Member Laureate

since 2002-09-29

Posts 19237
Florida, USA

1 posted 2002-12-27 10:17 AM

Very beautifully written, friend.

"Love makes the world go around"
~~with love and hugs from Ethel~~

Seymour Tabin
Member Empyrean

since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

2 posted 2002-12-27 10:26 AM

Corinne
Would you really do that? LOL enjoyed.

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

3 posted 2002-12-27 12:22 PM

Love the intensity of this, Cor.

Aenimal
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-11-18

Posts 7350
the ass-end of space

4 posted 2002-12-27 12:46 PM

Simply put..Brilliant. More please!

Sandpiper
Senior Member

since 2002-06-15

Posts 738
land of flora and fauna

5 posted 2002-12-28 06:13 AM

"witch of insomnia; chimera of the unresolved,
she stirs wicked smiles into a man’s interrupted dreams,
stretches her cold paws with claws extended"

WOW!!--wonderful images, haunting write--enjoyed!

"And it was at that age...Poetry arrived in search of me...And something started in my soul."
Pablo Neruda

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