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Canuckster
Member

since 2002-01-09

Posts 285
New Mexico, USA

0 posted 2005-06-05 01:25 AM

(Some older work ... my muse seems to be on vacation.)

The Body of My Work

Encrusted, encapsulated deep below
Unbroken turf
In embryonic solitude with rare
Interrupted seminal moments
Organic reality struggles
To touch sky

Ground long lain fallow
Not ignored more feared
Each mattock blow breaking sod
Left defensively unturned
Lest last vestige should leech
Irrecoverably lost in tawny run-off

A stanza, a verse aptly spoken
Pile driven aerator to break clay
Chipped marble slate gray shed
Brings life or revelation
That eviscerated corpse under copse
Exposed to a sun unseen for years

Inspiration storms across meadow
Washing, bathing, battering, caressing in turn
Awaiting the day there might strike that stroke
Drawn by a phrase rightly turned
That sparks across that eternal internal synapse
Life to discover
……. Self to recover
………….………Who I am shown to the words

© 4/20/00 Barton J. Breen

never try to teach a pig to sing
it wastes your time AND annoys the pig

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

1 posted 2005-06-05 07:10 AM

quote:
A stanza, a verse aptly spoken
Pile driven aerator to break clay
Chipped marble slate gray shed
Brings life or revelation
That eviscerated corpse under copse
Exposed to a sun unseen for years

Inspiration storms across meadow
Washing, bathing, battering, caressing in turn
Awaiting the day there might strike that stroke
Drawn by a phrase rightly turned
That sparks across that eternal internal synapse
Life to discover
……. Self to recover
………….………Who I am shown to the words

Incredibly intense lines here, dear Bart.

You have well done to unbury this piece from the past, it stirs the muse to grace you again.

Love, Margherita

Earth Angel
Member Empyrean

since 2002-08-27

Posts 40215
Realms of Light

2 posted 2005-06-05 08:40 AM

Wow! I felt the power and dynamism of your poetically expressed images and emotions!

This exquisitey empassioned poem most definitely deserved to see the light of day again! ~ Most definitely! Encore! Encore!

Love & Light,
EA
A fellow Canuckster

[This message has been edited by Earth Angel (06-05-2005 12:45 PM).]

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