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A Summer Garland
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A Summer Garland |
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babygirlwlove Senior Member
since 2004-10-10
Posts 1180New York City 
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A Summer Garland ...upon the Wedding of a dear, dear friend... grey, my gentle earth is barren now, or nearly, the silence of long, long hours in longer garlands of scarlet, burn the skin like hail, pale, the black Kansas rains strip me of every Summer leaf and the anise grief of lilies blister, brave still in their brief leopard silks, eclipse the faithful wounds wound in moonlight strands of hair wrapped in fists, you were all the wilderness in me, your love, a seamless cloak of phantom rain gathers across the prairie in the silver garments of a bridegroom, veiled, the crimson scarves I wrap around the presence of light, and descend in bands of ritual gold, sheathe my old whore petticoats in wild lavendar flurries of rain and yours, in nothing but sandlewood, buning, burning on the cloth of these, my almond pastures, a memory of heat stings across the shoulders in robes of a scathing wind, Summer ringed in garlands, swathed like radiant arctic moths in the eternal form of their own motion, an earthly descent from heaven to ascend the dreampaths of July, I burn ten thousand candles in the miracle my body bears, your child, incandescent as a god curled in the blue echoes of twilight calm and haloes of milk, fill the breasts in their pendulant cradles, all your soft promises are words, birds endlessly in flight, to silence the prophecy night brings an agile sieve over our open black earth in the flesh, leaves in the bones, root and in the soul, the svelte red grain we bury under this rare geography of black Kansas rain, maps the pastel distances 'neath the slender nuptials of a gypsum moon, emaciated, the grey petals of ashes rasp for breath, to speak now or forever seal these dreampaths away in the tethers of silk, mummified the great moths of July, wound in the wayward moonlight, sway with the same sudden grace of veined leaves, fallen. 2005(C)babygirLPress **Intoxicant to the SouL** |
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Dark Stranger Member Patricius
since 2001-03-19
Posts 13631West Coast |
yep lil girl..you got the chrome on |
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babygirlwlove Senior Member
since 2004-10-10
Posts 1180New York City |
taking that as a deep compliment, coming from you, dark... thank you~ much love, **babygirL **Intoxicant to the SouL** |
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LeeJ Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296 |
to ascend the dreampaths of July, I burn ten thousand candles ya know, there are so so many extravegant verses, one cannot hardly fine a favorite, as it all ties together and runs like some spirited life... You, my dear, are an amazing writer! |
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babygirlwlove Senior Member
since 2004-10-10
Posts 1180New York City |
LeeJ~ (((thank you)))...please know that the feeling is mutual... ~babygirL **Intoxicant to the SouL** |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
babygirlwlove This is not baby language. But a flower in a field of grass. |
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babygirlwlove Senior Member
since 2004-10-10
Posts 1180New York City |
Seymour...thanks for that... *baby **Intoxicant to the SouL** |
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wranx Member Elite
since 2002-06-07
Posts 3689Moved from a shack to a barn |
You've a way with gilding, I know But This is the Lily |
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Tiersdin Member Elite
since 2000-11-17
Posts 2364east coast |
tiers fall in awe... so very beautiful... ~tier  |
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rooster Junior Member
since 2005-07-13
Posts 14New Jersey |
WOW!! This is very nice work. It flows beautifully and leaves a taste behind. I have to say it took me about 20 minutes to read and not because I am a slow reader nor am I saying it was a long poem. I kept getting distracted by that beautiful picture of you on the side.  rooster |
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babygirlwlove Senior Member
since 2004-10-10
Posts 1180New York City |
wranx~ I am hoping you are crazy about lilies...((thank you, love)) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ tier, you're a doll...thanks for hitting this... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ rooster...you are very sweet....thank you...I am glad you enjoyed this bit of my lunacy... **babygirL** **Intoxicant to the SouL** |
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she'll_be_apples Junior Member
since 2005-07-11
Posts 22 |
"you were all the wilderness in me," this stirred me up, perfect. |
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littlewing Member Rara Avis
since 2003-03-02
Posts 9655New York |
in the silver garments of a bridegroom, veiled, the crimson scarves I wrap around the presence of light, and descend in bands of ritual gold, sheathe my old whore petticoats see? we all get a rebirth . . . Now you, Mari . . . that mind of yours Can I climb inside of it one day? Just a peek, please? (I won't tell) |
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Mysteria 
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
There is only one mind like yours that is for sure! I can't begin to pick out bits and pieces but would end up posting the entire work. However... in the miracle my body bears, your child, incandescent as a god curled in the blue echoes of twilight calm and haloes of milk, fill the breasts in their pendulant cradles, all your soft promises are words, birds endlessly in flight, to silence the prophecy night brings an agile sieve over our open black earth in the flesh, leaves in the bones, root and in the soul, the svelte red grain This sure does not make being buried under a black Kansas sky seem all that bad! |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
I'm not sure if there is sadness here, or my own sadness is coloring everything I read... but there is tender beauty in every line. That much I understood. lovely lady m. |
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