Clear Streams~

I’m going to maintain

Clean lines

Pace my heart within secure bones

Refrain from dragging parables into a panorama of scribbled paper

Or permit the surreal to grip my throat in its flamboyant maw

So I can inhale dew in script

And exhale mist in a hieroglyphic stream

In opposition of stained pixels

Until the simple pressure of my fingertips

Modifies solid into liquid

So as to touch your long hand chisels of ink in the rosetta stone

Trace the shape of your words

Taste them like a blind girl

On a quest for the consummate shape

Of that elusive heart thing

Dripping melody inside the simplicity

Of solid bones

 

 

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Reviews

[JelliFyshKissUs]

This seems to be so much more than what the eye beholds. My ears hear a spiritual journey. A meditative mind and heart that wishes to shed the debris of the trivial and time-wasters and find the cleanliness of simplicity, humility...take in the food from scripts of old. And in order to taste the trueness of it, you must be blind to sight of it and delight in it with a refined palate.
This one feeds my soul like no other, my dovely. Thank you.

[Michael X]

Sweeping style Selene, Your work is phenom, I have learned much by reading your poetic knowledge, thank you :)

[OT]

ah you at your best - surreal ink dripping over the page - so many brilliant images here - I love and envy - "So I can inhale dew in script
And exhale mist in a hieroglyphic stream" and "Refrain from dragging parables into a panorama of scribbled paper" bravo maestro!!

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blimey..I am in awe...this was simply divine..favourite

[Travis Lawrence]

"So I can inhale dew in script
And exhale mist in a hieroglyphic stream"

This made me picture slow motion photography, the speckles of liquid floating in the air, moving with the speaker's breath. I enjoyed the elusiveness and complexities of the poem, much like water, yet you focus on solidity and simplicity of inner being. The contrast is a delight, as well as insightful, I really think this piece is fantastic. I also enjoy that there is no punctuation, yet it still reads as smoothly. It's rare that an author can subtly tell the reader when to break, yet here we are!

[SpokenWord]

It is written in our DNA or bones as it may state. From the inside out your pen explores those parts of us that are hidden and visible to the world but your style and grace shows us the beauty in all things rather it be of good or bad. Beautiful writing and perfect poetry. Love this.

[Brad]

you've always a theme with bones...which actually make your words stick us deep to our core

[Tommy]

Oh, but your structure is always so refreshing, like a highbred species, evolved…I love the analogy of solid thoughts displayed in the liquid refreshing sense of a pens ink. I have always pictured your pen to be like a color click, so full of different shades of light…

Great Write!
RLG,
Tommy

[Siddhartha]

Oh, I love the dreamlike trance thing here. We are all blind seekers and your poem wonderfully puts forth the hopes and dreams of the journeymen.