From "Reflections" - Rainer Sits My Shadow

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Open Poetry #32

From "Reflections" - Rainer Sits My Shadow

Sunshine

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0 posted 2004-05-25 11:05 AM

Rainer sits my shadow holding tender my thoughts
In his indescribable poet’s hands.
I did not know him at first,
Though fortunately a fellow poet
Introduced us, and through the introduction,
He visits me now, often.

I asked his ghost to converse in an easy sort of way,
Of what was, and perhaps, what will be.
He sat, silently, almost broodingly,
His hooded brows over dark eyes,
His blood conveying silent thoughts
That only my Quill could hear.

Then my Quill spilled like tears
Rainer’s psyche into my soul
Of all that has ever been inside my mind
That aches to be released.
The knowledge that what lines unleashed
Are never enough.

And he transmits, that a poet never says,
this is adequate,
But reaches once again for the unsayable
To find a way to verse it just so,
And he whispers that a poet
Experiments with all feelings,
In all writings, in all ways, with every breath.
And he conveys that a poet does not,
No, never does he, no, not once stop writing,
For to do so, would be to give up on light,
And feathers.
It would be to quit believing
In awe-inspirational shadows
That speak to poets in the quiet
Through their quill to their soul,
Or that shadows ~ Believe ~
In the unsayable.

Sadelite
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since 2003-10-11

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1 posted 2004-05-25 11:39 AM

For to do so, would be to give up on light,
And feathers. (I really like the way you conjured up the lightness of feathers in my mind by your word placement. It made the poem weightless.)

This is a real treat to read--was captured through the end and more...Thanks.
Sadie

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Canada eh.

2 posted 2004-05-25 12:20 PM

Oh my...this made me grab my Reflections book again..I'm going to have my copy worn out soon.

I would love to hear you read this aloud..
a delicious threat that would be.

Lovely to see it posted here once again.

Hugs~

~Somewhere in my heart I'm always
Dancing with you in the summer rain~

passing shadows
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displaced

3 posted 2004-05-25 12:41 PM

I'm grabbing with Nancy

iliana
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4 posted 2004-05-26 12:58 PM

Beautiful lady, you have opened a door for me with this poem. He must be speaking to me, too, because when I did a search on the internet for the unusual name, it pulled him up. Now, I understand, and thank you!

....jo
Your are an inspiration!

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