"Life is the dancer and you are the dance."
— Eckhart Tolle

Sunday, January 23, 2011

"Vacant" poets united poetry pantry #26

In a white light streaked
with crimson … smashing the tiny
pearls of an optical sphere  

Anguish is relief when comparing
love of deserted natural virtue

Reasoning is too much to undertake,
brittleness of the senses compact
into a space with no room to move

Crystalline nightmares invade every
corner, seeped with sorrow

Vintage aspirations bustling in unison,
breaking extensions on elongated plains

Chartreuse light bolts against torrid
blackness becoming fetid and fearsome

Breaking up the stones surrounding a
silver pond filled with fish singing
long forgotten songs ...

Heard in echoes throughout the land
Posted by flaubert at 3:09 PM

18 comments:

  1. Linda Bob Grifins Korbetis HallJanuary 23, 2011 at 3:53 PM

    Breaking up the stones surrounding a
    silver pond filled with fish singing
    long forgotten songs

    super dynamic or lovely imagery...beautiful lines.

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  2. flaubertJanuary 23, 2011 at 4:20 PM

    Thanks Jingle.

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  3. signed...bkmJanuary 23, 2011 at 4:50 PM

    "Reasoning to much to undertake"...love that line Pam..there are times when life feels just like that....and there is "no room to move"...you have me thinking...bkm

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  4. Paul Andrew RussellJanuary 23, 2011 at 4:50 PM

    This is beautiful, Pamela. :-)

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  5. Unnamed PsalmistJanuary 23, 2011 at 4:54 PM

    i love the effect of imagination on my mind

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  6. Philip ThriftJanuary 23, 2011 at 5:07 PM

    I love the singing fish!

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  7. Sherry Blue SkyJanuary 23, 2011 at 6:27 PM

    Beautifully done. I especially love the fish singing long forgotten songs.

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  8. flaubertJanuary 23, 2011 at 9:33 PM

    Barb, it is so true. Reasoning will not work sometimes and it is completely futile.

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  9. flaubertJanuary 23, 2011 at 9:34 PM

    Thanks Paul:)

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  10. flaubertJanuary 23, 2011 at 9:35 PM

    Psalmist, thanks for the visit.

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  11. flaubertJanuary 23, 2011 at 9:36 PM

    Philip, don't all fish sing:)

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  12. AnonymousJanuary 24, 2011 at 6:08 AM

    I adore that last three-line stanza. Beautiful.

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  13. Brother OllieJanuary 24, 2011 at 7:55 AM

    Excellent word choice...something for me to work on.

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  14. Kerry O'ConnorJanuary 24, 2011 at 10:32 AM

    Always a joy to read one of your pieces - I so love the vibrant colours and the image of the fish in the pond is my favourite.

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  15. flaubertJanuary 24, 2011 at 10:39 AM

    Thanks Sherry, you've got to love singing fish:)

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  16. flaubertJanuary 24, 2011 at 10:40 AM

    Thanks so much Tilly.

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  17. flaubertJanuary 24, 2011 at 10:41 AM

    Thanks Ollie.

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  18. flaubertJanuary 24, 2011 at 10:41 AM

    Nice of you to stop by Kerry:)

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