your voice shivers through
me like breezes shaking
time-worn boughs
(and I cannot
resist that
ancient call)
slide your whispers
along skin, let them
sink deep as bone
breathe my name,
a fervent, sighing
psalm
and I will lift my
face to your sun and
unfurl my limbs
singing like new leaves
dancing in the
warm winds
of spring















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Poetry is truly boundless. It is my passion, I am the canvas.
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my poetry, lemon
both bitter and tart
you decide the taste of my art
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The cake is a lie! And so is the pie o___o The muffins are safe, though. They're on our side =o
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Blackbird singing in the dead of night.
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Blackbird singing in the dead of night.
My youtube [link]
I like the simple effect of the line sink deep as bone. It's funny, as humans, physically, it's practically the deepest you can get into us as bodies, into the marrow of our bones. But it's almost ironic, because our souls give another dimension to our physical depth and we become as boundless and immeasurable as universes. I don't think you intended for that to come about, but the point is that this poem is soft, short, unpretentious -- and yet it triggers big responses.
The imagery and mood of the first stanza is beautiful. I imagine that dry crispness of winter-turning-summer, and the silvery old arms of trees.
Having the word psalm on a separate line gives it a lot of precious gravity, and pauses you to wonder about why you chose that word -- because a psalm is reverent, worshipful, full of joy and simultaneous pain.
And yet through all of this, the poem could be from the point of view of a tree.
I like that.
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dendrites wave and furl
moved-by-moving-with is not
manifesting is
this can happen without you
or it can happen within
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