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November In Bethlehem
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November In Bethlehem |
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babygirlwlove Senior Member
since 2004-10-10
Posts 1180New York City 
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I’ve walked November, end to end, barefoot over its thresholds of stone, of surrender, so descends a black autumn, a thousand leaves dying, so much dying, the soul, a flask of dried salts trickling through the eye sockets of a clay mask, bristling glass branches in a garden of blood roses, just out of reach and relinquished to a backdrop of Japanese Maples draped in the fevers of morning, always mine, darkening the long shadows of the day’s delirium, nothing but a drumskin jaguar of absence beats through the flesh, like a bell’s toll, yet yours is the sound that breaks open my body, dressed in its slender wings and barbed kisses, with bells in their depths, the silence of bare limbs and the long wings in chorus with the silk of rain falling softly, as night melts one body into another, listen, listen as I enter your thought, too far for a sound to cross the river as the silver earth darkens, over Bethlehem, beaded with the sugars of the body, soft as dream, the night’s black harvest of moments span the passageways where panthers guard our oblivion in some gray dominion of summer and soon, come over the soul, the clockface, a cadence carved in the glyphs of a river, always, always out of reach, like the chalice I lift to sunburnt lips, full of ashes, and everywhere the colors I cannot take my eyes from, all of them, red with bells in their depths, a black-veined butterfly’s struggle to ascend its bruises through a bloodbath of salts, soft, upon your tongue the taste of sand and evening becoming body. So Ends the Sandman Series X ...from the black book of hours... 2005 copyright Mari Laureano  **Intoxicant to the SouL** |
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LeeJ Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296 |
I've missed reading you.... where have you been, or was it me? this poem, makes me understand the reason I love poetry so much, perplex and yet, standing right there before the reader, tapping us on the shoulder Your an amazing poet!!! |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
the silence of bare limbs and the long wings in chorus with the silk of rain falling softly, as night melts one body into another, listen, listen as I enter your thought, too far for a sound to cross the river ~*~ You know, little one, your poetry is such that I read poems within poems... and that is the mark of true, pleasurable reading... Thank you. |
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babygirlwlove Senior Member
since 2004-10-10
Posts 1180New York City |
LeeJ~ I've missed you as well....thanks so much for stopping in for a peek~ ****************** Sunshine~ you do me, honor...(((thank you)))... **babygirL** **Intoxicant to the SouL** |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
*sigh* this is why I keep coming back to these blue pages...to discover a tasty treasure such as this to savor, reminding me why I crave the taste of Pips M, thank you, for sharing this beautiful write! |
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babygirlwlove Senior Member
since 2004-10-10
Posts 1180New York City |
Midnitesun~ thanks so much! **babygirl** **Intoxicant to the SouL** |
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Mysteria
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
Good work as usual, and hopefully this is from another book to add to my shelf? You will have to let me know when they get published in case I forget to go check. Simply incredible imagery, and YOU are one of the reasons I love to read, as no one can make me think about those "warped" works as you can.  You twist them around, upside down, and back again, until they get a good workout. ~* C'est la vie *~ |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
As I have said, there is enough imagery here for feast of thought, Bethlehem in this context alone made my head swim with possibility. (bethlehem as house of bread, coupled with November as a first hint of winter led me to quite the unexpected metaphor) I think too much tho.  niceeeeeeeeeeeeeee m |
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littlewing Member Rara Avis
since 2003-03-02
Posts 9655New York |
This blew me away completely and I come away from this with so many stories whispering in my ear, Mari. |
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