Words Have Eyes That Sing

Do you turn away from eyes that sing on nights filled with emotion
Never wondering if you could drown in your imagination
Without understanding all the poetry that dances in your heart
Warming words of choice, in your tongue of fascination

Do your hours exist in a sky familiar with moments such as these
Is there nowhere to look for heaven free of possession
Where words do not cry out to be contemplated by your pen
To become lovely music giving light to your obsession

Can one learn to be absent from this transparent house of glass  
And remove this flowing ink that runs within their veins
Still breathe without giving out a subtle handful of their soul
Each time a word calls out to be painted in a refrain

I cannot turn from eyes that sing on nights filled with emotion
My heaven is this possession in which I freely drown
You may not understand the poetry dancing in my heart
Still I will write, until I become dust, in the ground

Author's Note

Artist Roger Suraud - http://bestbookmarks.net/art/roger-suraud-paintings-part-2

Reviews

[Maya Storm]

Wow I live with a person, who I know is living this piece right here... Every word every line.

I can understand being obsessed with your art. If that level of passion is not there then is it really worth it?

Opening your heart and mind each day and putting your feeling and thoughts into things... into words... this is what makes you wake up in the morning it's what drives you... I completely understand your ending.... to write until you die :) well said beginning to end.

[Marilu Elizabeth]

Love this poem :) It defiantly shows how much love you have for what you do. I love how this poem is written too :)

[Peter Coakley]

Every time I read one of your poems I want to become a poet, especially this one.

[lleone]

the last line is beautiful. you choose your words perfectly...damn. transparent house of glass? amazing.

[Kelsie Eileen Stark]

Beautiful and brilliant words spoken, poetry lives inside us, it sings, it bleeds. Marvoulous~

[KimLove "The Beautiful ..]

What beautiful words Neva, The last 4 months of my life writing again, I have almost found the inner peace I once knew. I don't know how I ever lived without it all these years. Reading it, writing it. You have described to a tee the feelings inside of me. That I feel, that a lot of us feel that write. We write to set us free. It does not matter if no one else understands we do. It's always nice when others get it and they like it but does it truly matter? For some sure, for me it's just an added bonus. The last stanza, it's perfect nothing else need ever be said. Bravo xx

[Aidz]

the music flows does it not Neva

You know I love it and you :)

[roy mccarthy]

beautiful piece neva!
a great ode to the craft!

[E.V. Black]

Still, your poetry mesmerizes me. I must say that your work requires more than just one reading to be perfectly understood. I had to slowly read this to understand what you were trying to say.

[unknown]

Amazing words ...I don't run from stinging or soothing words :) ...tremendous!

[almaraye]

Sublime your writing my dear Neva ..
Vos mots sont Puissant ...