BlueIris
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Dec-11-08 12:37 PM
Original message |
The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poetry Break, 12/11/08 |
|
"Beginner's Luck"
Alone it would be impossible, the vertical ascent. Wisdom of inner hands and feet, their cumulative weight— these are a kind of light. Water breaks from rock,
sun flashing fire-white from wet granite. Friable mica gleam. And you? When you grow up?
That trickster myth, the yanked rug, the trap door— as if there were one arrival, or a place to stand
once you arrived. The fool at the cliff-edge, blind Glouster at Dover, his foiled leap.
Counting our second chances, the dial set back to zero. Dark circle of crags glinting with ice in the light before dawn. You have climbed for a long time—
this mountain, other mountains, many. Each one the first, the tooth of new terror breaking the gum, again and again.
—Colette Thomas
|
BlueIris
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Dec-11-08 10:13 PM
Response to Original message |
Fire Walk With Me
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Dec-11-08 10:15 PM
Response to Original message |
RetroLounge
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Thu Dec-11-08 11:17 PM
Response to Original message |
BlueIris
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Dec-12-08 01:34 AM
Response to Reply #3 |
Tuesday Afternoon
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Dec-12-08 01:44 AM
Response to Original message |
5. the tooth of new terror breaking the gum, again and again. |
|
nice line.
have you posted her work before?
|
BlueIris
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Dec-12-08 03:28 AM
Response to Reply #5 |
7. Yeah, on or around my birthday (May 14). |
|
Edited on Fri Dec-12-08 03:30 AM by BlueIris
|
CaliforniaPeggy
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Dec-12-08 01:49 AM
Response to Original message |
|
I love this!
The weaving in and out of the various strands...
Just beautiful!
Thank you for this wonderful work!
:hug:
|
BlueIris
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Dec-12-08 03:31 AM
Response to Reply #6 |
8. Yes, it is nice. Very layered. nt |
DU
AdBot (1000+ posts) |
Sun May 05th 2024, 08:09 PM
Response to Original message |