Dust to Dust

My body

bears

these symbols

 

Vast and yet,

Unknown

 

Yin

 

Lady Moon

thy

Ocean Tides

 

With out

Darkness

 

There isn't

Light

 

Ankh

 

Our Eternal

 

Life

 

My Soul

 

Buried

within

Flesh

 

 

...Ashes to Ashes...

 

 

Snake

coiled around

Skin

 

Protector

 

God of sweet

Salvation.

 

Come to me.

 

I bear these

Markings

 

Engraved

with Ink

 

Imprinted

 

In my Spirit

 

 

...Dust to Dust...

Author's Note

Concept and word play.

Reviews

[alan peter kelly]

i enjoy minimalism...the ability to empower a piece with a skeleton of flesh and still make it somehow meaningful / strong / aesthetic is a skill many poets will never know...you have this skill...

[Pax Analog]

Again, I love the elegant minimalism. Has an Asian feeling, delicate, classic, subtle.

And there's a calligraphic beauty in having flesh imprinted w/symbols of fruitful darkness, eternal life, protection. . .

A poem about pictographic poetry on skin, as it were, ephemeral ashes, dust, the poignant dream of breathing.

[Cynthia]

Like it.

[Miss Coral]

Great imagery, though this one didn't hit me as hard as some of your other pieces have. I always have a harder time relating to this style of poetry, the disjointed words that form as a whole to create a poem. Nice piece.

[Jonathan De Elvira]

This is very soothing style of writing...
Love the symbolic style of wording..
very creative

[Robin]

I like it , symbolism and how it is related to you and your spirit