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Allysa

Senior Member

since 1999-11-09

Posts 1952
In an upside-down garden

0 posted 2006-04-24 01:51 PM

Picture number thirty-seven of sixty-three
reminds me of a place that I visited, it seems
inside some kind of distant dream, where
street signs hang, slightly sideways from the
sidewalk and the insides of everything seem to
be in the process of coming out

And I never wondered what the blinds from
your window would look like, wind-blown and
crumpled in the frame, or how curious it is
when steps lead to nowhere and someone's favorite
family photos have found their way to the
front lawn, and, I think

I am the type of person who will find some
kind of meaning in the brokeness of this street
and I will gather all of the things that got
left behind somehow, because I am the type
of person who clings to memories like strands of
curly hair filled with little leaves and ribbons

There are small children, smiling in pictures
of places where people once lived, wearing plastic
gloves to protect their hands from that stuff
that mother nature did, and you see the insides
of everything, falling on the outside.

--
Hannah is a girl I know, and this is her online photo album. http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/c172/hannahs_panorama/

Irie
Senior Member

since 1999-12-01

Posts 1493
Washington State

1 posted 2006-04-24 02:24 PM

WOW!
You have captured this nasty act of mother nature in a completely different light!
I am impressed, and SO much enjoyed reading this one.

~Sheri

"Don't wait for your ship to come in ... Swim out to it"

Seymour Tabin
Member Empyrean

since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

2 posted 2006-04-24 03:31 PM

Allysa
I find the inside is often not as nice as the outside. LOL Enjoyed the read.

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

3 posted 2006-04-24 04:39 PM

I've got to agree with Seymour about the inside vs. the outside but thanks for a grest read!

poettothecars
Senior Member

since 2006-02-10

Posts 1093
New Zealand

4 posted 2006-04-25 06:43 AM

the reader gets their own image, in the painted words. When pictures destroy this image . by giving more than a true view

a poet who cares

mariae
Member

since 2006-04-24

Posts 54
Denmark, Europe

5 posted 2006-04-25 07:42 AM

You see things other choose to forget
Mother nature is the worst..and the best :-)

Susan Caldwell
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-12-27

Posts 8348
Florida

6 posted 2006-04-25 09:42 AM

"I am the type of person who will find some
kind of meaning in the brokeness of this street"

Me too. It gets hard though. The suffering just becomes overwhelming.

You capture real with your words.

"too bad ignorance isn't painful"
~Unknown~

The Lady
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-12-26

Posts 7634
The Southwest

7 posted 2006-04-25 05:10 PM

"and I will gather all of the things that got
left behind somehow, because I am the type
of person who clings to memories like strands of
curly hair filled with little leaves and ribbons"

This is wonderful work Allysa.

soul drifter
Senior Member

since 2004-09-08

Posts 711
Colorado

8 posted 2006-04-25 06:32 PM

GORGEOUS.

The imagery pulled me in (I'm a sucker for imagery)...
reminds me of the wonderful Murakami novel Sputnik Satellite for some reason. Must be the ghostly beauty of it...yeah..

Damn. I have to remember to read more of your work...I'm savin' this...

"Is any song worth singing if it doesn't help?" -- Wilco, 'Wishful Thinking'

Allysa

Senior Member

since 1999-11-09

Posts 1952
In an upside-down garden

9 posted 2006-04-25 08:45 PM

Thanks, everyone.

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