“A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
Showing posts with label fallen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fallen. Show all posts
Thursday, March 9, 2017
Bottoms up
Have you fallen
into a book, a slump,
into bed
too deep
for another to hear your muffled voice trying to climb out?
If so, please let me know, as I have been seeking
low and high for the loose end to grab onto
falling short of finding the eminent source
of your sound-
could I be late-
are you too far
underneath to speak freely?
Well,
we all make choices,
most have moved on.
I have pulled on this rope
without end
wishing and waiting for one more
buried echo-o-o-o-o-o-o...
Painting by Georg Flegel [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
Saturday, September 3, 2016
A bird in the bushes
That sudden moment you realize
in full color,
Everything has changed
dramatically-
As though the view had become slightly altered
-say some trees missing over there-
the skyline is as good a place to start
against which the details are sharp-est
most vivid.
This was the moment
that would be marked
the point of divergence,
a terrain change
ahead.
All is
unforgiving in this light.
I said up and above, bellowing
over heals past keeping pace and you race
to keep flying
toward this shiny chromatic destiny as if it were all the same-
to you,
estranged.
This very moment remains
coveted yet-
unchanged by the bumps and bruises,
fallen limbs and
sin,
regardless
of it always being just
this way.
Image of artwork By Internet Archive Book Images [No restrictions], via Wikimedia Commons.
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