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SLEEPING
I never did tell you
in that moment now dissolved
how much I would cherish the heat of our mornings,
how I yearned to trace the letters of a Greek alphabet
with the skill of a tongue's quill
into intimate depths of arousal and your blood.
How I would watch you sleep, imagining death
your allies, your lovers, untouchable tomorrows.
I never did tell you
in that moment now among time’s own healing
how I would whisper the names of ancient Grecian towns
Roman Gods and Philosophers
while touching the freedom inside your hair.
How I would sense each day of your life’s longing
the hurt and pain of still rotting love
reluctantly worn around a heart,
a wrist and the bone of an ankle.
I never did tell you
for just that searched for single moment
when darkness concealed its reasoned limit
how I wanted to gift you the emptiness
of a religion’s ultimate destiny
and how you would wait a short while
standing next to your chosen devil
where you gather love's impatience
until that perfect morning
when I will follow you there.
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Comments
I was searching for one of yours I thought I saw earlier, hiding amongst the early morning blogs, but they're shy and elusive creatures your poems, and if they get noticed at all they seem to head for their burrows - and I end up thinking - did I scare it off? or did I imagine it in the first place?'Sleeping' is superb! I have given up imagining that I could inspire that kind of writing ... I wonder if feeling I'd rather inspire it than write it means I'm on the wrong site!Cx
Darren, Your sample poem - Sleeping, Words are simple and sometimes vague things. You can read a combination of them and your memory can't retain their order or thair exact meanings. And yet you feel them in your heart, in the rise of the lump in your throat and in the wipe of a tear on your cheek. And that's where I am with this one, it is a beautiful thing, thankyou. win
Hello Darren, I have worked myself out a system, I am putting my conventional stuff on another site and anything I don't think they will get on here, because there is more chance the odd person on here might get it! This is now my experimental site! How naughty!
Cheers DT, I am a sensitive soul, will try and hang on in there!
Hi man thanks for the comment much appreciated. yeah! your right nothing cascades up lol I could have substituted something more meaningful, but it seemed to flow at the time;-)
TC
I went to see Billy Collins read on Saturday night at the Ledbury festival and he was magnificent. He gets a lot of stick from critics about his chopped up prose style and whimsy but this seems like criticising PG Wodehouse for his humour and lack of social realism.
I really am Alvin Guinessberg or else a figment of Stefan Wilde's imagination
I can see what you're saying but it seems you can't see me ... f/b?
Think you may have crashed, or I have ...
Something missing ... don't know about that, only the title I wasn't wild about.
Cx
So - I think - right Chris, stop being a lazy git just writing 'I like this' at the bottom of a couple of poems every now n' then - and I make a concerted effort to write summat a bit constructive like, or at least explain like, why I like this ... and 2 minutes later - the poem's blinkin' well disappeared! Purrit back! - I really like it.
;)
Cx
Janet Ramsden
Wed 23rd Jun 2010 11:12
Hi Darren,
thanks for your fantastic comment on my latest entry 'Summer's Eve.'
I added a further comment below the poem in response if you care to have a gander. Although it wasn't intended to be sinister, i love it when other people see something other than i meant to portray. I will take a look at the TT form you suggested and have a shot at it. ;-)
Janet.x
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Ann Foxglove
Fri 23rd Jul 2010 20:21
Thanks for commenting on my german boy poem. No answer as the poem is based on a true memory and there was no answer. That's life I guess!