No Quarter( The Watchful Eye of the Moon Sparrow)

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Open Poetry #35

No Quarter( The Watchful Eye of the Moon Sparrow)

The Jackal
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since 1999-08-13

Posts 426
Springfield, Massachusetts U.S.A

0 posted 2005-03-14 01:35 AM

The young man stands in the snow;
the time is a quarter till seven
His black hair melts into the night,
His brown eyes search but yet do not seek
A Quarter moon beats down on him, looms over him engulfs him
He is entranced, magnetic glaring into the woods like a spurned lover

We see a pool,
a deck perhaps twenty feet to the left
Underneath the deck something catches his eye,
it twinkles; shines
For a moment this object reflects off his glasses, illuminates him, grants him power

This could be just a trick; an emotional reflex but we do not have this luxury
We watch as he bows his head, and then lifts his head to the cold brisk sky
We imagine him deep in thought, and we wish to leave him there but we can not

He decides on an action; he begins to move down the slope towards the deck
Then abruptly stops less than halfway there, and gets down on his knees
He is moved by something, and we draw closer and see tears streak down his face
They freeze there; they hang there like an unanswered question

We gaze at this from our perch
in this high ancient tree
This young man on his knees in the fallen snow,
The quarter moon beating on his back, the unforgiving brisk air
This is his daily ritual, and we are his mute witness, his silent diary

Leave us to define him, embrace him in our cold distant way
We rush to greet the frigid air with enthusiasm and attention that may outlive us
To another tree; to another young man awakening from his first real dream

New lovers are nervous and tender, but smash everything. For the heart is an organ of fire

A Romantic Heart
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since 1999-09-03

Posts 5496
Forever In Your Heart

1 posted 2005-03-14 01:38 AM

~Enjoyed your tale!

~ARh

"Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments; love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to

majnu

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since 2002-10-13

Posts 1088
SF Bay Area

2 posted 2005-03-29 02:42 PM

a bit prosaic, but interesting syle of telling. i enjoyed it.

-majnu
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Timid thoughts be not afraid. I am a Poet.

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