Aqua Vitae

Inspired by water. "Aqua Vitae" is latin for "Water of Life"

WHEN WHAT IS NOT SO IMPORTANT

Is shriveling the soul………………………

OPAQUE-

like too bright of a sun.

It’s TASTELESS

Like the DEAFNESS TO WHITE NOISE.

-mindless in our heartless turns of phrases.-

And yet remaining righteous in the competence we’re enthroned.

We may be reaching toward dry cups

We may be poisoned by conditions…

Shrinking in dehydration.

It’s a crusting of the spirit.

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Soak.

In the radiance of true nature-

-Feel the coolness of the throat.

And the lucidity ov all that has survived around you.

We’re amongst it. We belong…

In the cosmos, yes, our awareness present..

But our TIDINGS yet unknown

Don’t we know our temples carry the truth?

BLIND… yet NOT with drawn eyelids?

Feel the energy that binds us to infinity swirling beneath the mass surface?

Here in a smallness of the universe,

Transcendences beyond the human mind

We’re falling from the sky - We’re swimming in the deeps- We’re killing off trees-
Oh, likewise loving innocence..
Sometimes.

Burning the bridges in baffled recognizance.

The ambient flow of

Universal mother energy

Radiates and glows.

Her harmonic vibrating lungs

Sing unparalleled, heartbreaking songs

I am her child "- but she is me

She is my nature "- and I am her creep

An agreement in the coolness of the world
You look to the sky
And to the ghost inside the trinket.

Suck from the sponge of your core
Because you’re of ideal gloriousness

A lymphae of truth and answers.

Hai. It's in the depths of our ignored consciousness.

And you are not restrained

Even in a mortal shell protecting your
Blood-spattered chains.

A mass of fear and dried up shame
Most times

We make our claims alas Goodness says it's the game.

It’s silence that has us in its fangs.

It’s melody of the crevasses,

The trenches
And the flattened plains

Or the crackling of flame

In the depths like I say, it’s in your cup,

Near your belly,

Spilling over with aqua vitae.

Author's Note

Inspired by water.

Reviews

[Wolfwind]

Wow! This piece has so much woven into it. At first... I was thinking about the pruned fingers one gets for sitting in the bath to long, but then the ink tossed me right into the sea and all the myriad of life's liquid nature, both the joys and the short comings. It is certainly ink that makes one think.

Great Craftsmanship!
Aaron

[Jazmen]

Thank you for your reviews. I appreciate your kind words.
If you'd like to fill the imagery part of this piece
go to
http://www.writerscafe.org/writing/Jazmen/988428/
and click that link. there's a video for this poem.

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Wow!!! Gorgeous piece!

[MoriartyMesa]

I liked this, too many images spilled into my brain.