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Dark Poetry #4

like a swan

JenniferMaxwell

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since 2006-09-14

Posts 2423

0 posted 2008-09-14 06:48 AM

he was autumn
rain and the sweet scent
of wood smoke
a floating island
for my tender green
a monolith carved
from carrara marble
a desert wind
trembling poppies
in the field of my days

he measured
the distance between us
in versts
I swam in the waters
of a stream running dry
chaining my daisies
to his riverbed rock
breathing the iron
of his oxygen

he taught me to sing
to the longing in his eyes
and delivered me out
of the family of Lot
I held out my hand
to bring him to spring
and felt the nail
of his winter
pierce the scars

Abbeon
Member

since 2006-11-30

Posts 228
Curiousity, and wonder

1 posted 2008-09-15 04:18 PM

Lovely, and very enjoyable.

The hollow emptiness, the crazed thoughts left to survive

JenniferMaxwell

Member Elite

since 2006-09-14

Posts 2423

2 posted 2008-09-15 09:47 PM

Thanks, Abbeon, it's Dancemaster, an older poem, from a different perspective. Still haven't got it quite the way I want it. Oh well.

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