Locks, Quills, and Flow

Featured is Locks Above Water & an episode of my poetry audio blog. Spoken word poems include Subservience and Flow, 4, & Not-to-Begotten Bird. I also discuss bees, dreams, & meditation.

Locks, Quills, and Flow

If you are looking for a more immersive experience, join me for another episode of my audio poetry blog. Included are a spoken word version of today's featured written poem and the additional piece Subservience and Flow(new), 4, and an oldie but a good, Not-To-Begotten Bird. I also discuss bees, dreams, and meditation. I promised you will be soothed. If you tune in, please let me know. I love to hear back from other poets:)

If you are having none of the audio part. I got ya. You don't know what you are missing, or maybe you do. It is all good. The written version of Locks Above Water is found below, keep scrolling.

Locks Above Water

intertidal

ebb and flow

play the coquette

play hard to get

but welcome surrender

when the crepuscular tide

blushes to pastel indigo

immerse yourself
join the divine cosmic dance
a spacetime-caped pasodoble
between contrast and appreciation

there is no refusing the lead
only dragging your feet
tripping and falling
chaffing your limbs

                    there is
no dimension and depth
current or flow
without dark and light
warmth and cold
pressure differential

swim, little sylph
but keep your locks
above water

keep your face
turned to the solar
lather and moisten
siesta and umbrella

flit among the dapple

but flirt too closely with shadow

your individuality swallowed
lost to a circular tide and flush
compressed to singularity

I'm all for togetherness, swimming together
but let's keep it at arms length
save for in a panic, we together forever

stray past the event horizon, sink to the abyss

kiss the free form octopi
the Fibonacci shelled nautilus
submit to the spiral never-ending stellar waltz

get giddy and even heady
interlace with red-shifted fingertips

but don't over-commit or cling

keep at least one firm toe grip
buried deep and anchored 

in the silvered sands of the material

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Locks Above Water is published in my collection Domesticate the Heavens.

Please visit my blog to further explore the accompanying photos and essay, some bonus poetry, and keep up-to-date with all my writing. 

Longer works can be found on the my amazon page.

Reviews

[Marie]

Wonderful advice given in this metaphoric gem, dear Pryde. Falling in love is the most beautiful experience to be had as a human being, but if we don't let that love be free, if we grasp it tightly to us, then it will slip through our fingers. It's ok to swim in the sea of life together, but not clutching on tightly to each other as both may drown. Over committing is not a good thing, it has to be reciprocated by our partner and so, it is best to stay firmly grounded and anchored in the real. Sublime inking, dear Pryde! Amazing depiction and use of various figures of speech. You give excellent advice on the choices we make. Lovely work! Thank you for sharing, Pryde...

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you so much, Marie. a wonderfully thoughtful review.

[Marie]

Most welcome always, Pryde.
Thank you for your kind words...

[Patricia Wedel]

dear Pryde... you are the Bright Star in the Atmosphere... that we hold Dear... the Cosmic Ray of every Day... when the bluest Sky has become our Destiny... tenderly, Pat

[Pryde Foltz]

Wow ... that made my day. Certainly you as well, dearest poet:)

[Einstein Noodle]

we all have a natural desire for "wholeness", i think .. we search for that something special that fits the empty spaces .. i think love, falling in love is one thing; but your poem speaks to the risk of putting too much "answer" on it when it really isn't there .. only in part .. we need our own identities in love and being too needy .. to possessive .. etc. are warnings that something must give .. or fall apart .. Fibonacci and sea crustaceans .. very interesting says i! i think your poem is full of flavors and flowers and colors of many a splendored thing :)))))))))))
E.

[Pryde Foltz]

Hi, E. Such a treat to hear from you. Yes, love is the goal but then if we grasp or graph at our price to dearly, we surely strangle the love out of it. Fibronacci is an exponential fractal that some life is build upon. And who says numbers are lifeless:)

[Einstein Noodle]

yes!!! math is entwined in much of life says i! love and peace and joy to you Pryde!!

[Pryde Foltz]

Peace and Joy to you, E:)

[John the Baptist]

The poem seems to laud the virtues of mystical experience, but at the end cautions us not to go too far, to keep one foot in the physical world. Good advice. Extremes, even in spirituality, are to be avoided. We are Being, but we are human, too.

[Pryde Foltz]

You got it.Thank you so much for the read:)

[Coyote Poetry]

I am listening now dear Pryde. I will order the book tonight. Your books give me ideals and things to ponder for my writing. I need Hemingway, Jack London and Bukowski to keep my mind alive. Good evening from Michigan. I love hearing your verbal stories. A pleasure to listen to my dear friend.
Coyote

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you so much. I absolutely appreciate your support and attention. That at times I inspire you feels me with warmth. I noticed too that you were over on Rumble. Thank you, thank you:)

[Coyote Poetry]

My first time to Rumble. I use three sites and I can't keep up dear Pryde. I will receive your new book tomorrow. I believe I own all five of your books. Standing next to my favorite writer Nevil Shutes two books. You are welcome my dear friend.

[Pryde Foltz]

Oh wow ... that is amazing. Send me a picture if you can:)

[Coyote Poetry]

I will tomorrow dear Pryde. Your fifth book will arrive. I am listening to your YouTube now. You are my midnight muse.

[Twilight]

Good heavens, you've done it again; packing in so much word play. So much, ranging from dance moves to the movements of water - and just about everything in between.!

Indeed, the disjointed nature of this style; could be enough to phase - even the most experienced of reviewers lol.

Despite my earlier comments, this still has great uniqueness. And, it made me feel a bit; as if this has a 🎵 musical flow. Almost as if, you had counterpoints and interconnected melodies..?

Woven into this tapestry of words, there is a warning - to keep romance "at arm's length". And, near the very end; a reminder keep a firm enough grip on the here and now of reality - by the "toe"! Thanks for sharing, and allowing me to partake of this literary juxtaposition of assorted melodies....

[Pryde Foltz]

Wonderful and detailed review. Yes, absolutely there is rhythm and melody intended and syncopation to maintain edge. I have early works with tidier meter . Maybe I will post some for you to see. I don't know if you had a opportunity to hear the spoken word ... it makes a lot more sense heard.

[Twilight]

I don't listen to music 🎶 in general, these days. I'm not sure why, but I have almost lost sensitivity to it. This is strange, because I'm such a sensitive person; and sensitive people tend to relate very much with music. When I was somewhat younger, I actually enjoyed listening 🎧 quite a bit to music. Possible reasons for my odd feelings over music, may relate to my autism, age or meditation taken in the past (or possibly for a combination of these reasons). Anyway, more "read requests" would be good..!

[Pryde Foltz]

It can be that way with someone. There is music in the background but it also my voice. But now pressure:)

[Patricia Wedel]

dear Pryde... the force of water in a shower head gives my Brain a wake-up splash... my very own Spa where drops of Jupiter are heard (the song by the Artist "Train" when his Mother passed away). "Drops of Jupiter in her Hair" is sung by Train in an impressive Video on U-Tube as a Violin is played. Your writing brings feelings from the Atmosphere. gently, Pat

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you so much, Pat. And what an amazing title for a song:)

[Patricia Wedel]

It is true dear Pryde... the song that Train wrote for his Mother is a Legacy we all can sing like Jupiter in her Hair. Happy Holidays and always Believe in being Loved. softly, Pat

[Pryde Foltz]

Happy Holiday, dear Pat:)

[Thomas W Case]

Tremendous work. I look forward to watching it on you tube. Beautiful.

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you so much, Thomas. I hope you enjoy:)

[Sami Khalil]

A message to all humans to embrace togetherness, to rally around single causes, to learn the cosmic dance.
I love it!

[Pryde Foltz]

Thanks so much, Sami:)

[Sami Khalil]

You are welcome.