So I'm suppossed to write about cold...hmmm.
Heart frozen in a moment
caught in the net of paralysis
Opportunities sitting in her palm
frozen icicles hanging down
caught in a moment of decisions to be made
Time slowed to the heat of my heartbeat
melting drops slide down
slow-motion stop-motion action
Heart pounding in a moment
free of bindings free to answer the possibilities
hmmm...well...sigh - it'll do.
We are all still works of art in progress.
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4 comments:
Wow! I really like those images! Maybe I'm reading more into it than you mean but, every time you say her I think of your wife instead of time, fate or any other concept that can be personified. So I keep seeing romance and love within your poetic images. That makes them really intense for me. Also I had never thought of heat being a motion so I am finding that image a focal point. I liked the slow-motion stop-motion too. Going from frozen to freedom hunh. Who says you don't write happy poetry?
Joy!
Who said you had to write about cold? (And why not?) (Just messing around.)
I like this one a lot, the weaving of physical cold with the heats and colds of the emotional / spiritual bodies as well.
"Time slowed to the heat of my heartbeat..." Nice.
Question: how quickly was this poem written? (No wrong answers here, by the way.) It has the feel of being written almost as fast as it reads, which would be a pretty amazing thing. If not, then its flow (out of "apparent" speed) is pretty cool, in and of itself.
Rave on. ειρήνη. (ειρήνη η)
lee: thank you - I'm glad you enjoyed it. I'm also glad you saw something in it that I hadn't - gives me something to think about.
murat11: Yes, the poem was written in under 3 minutes. Then minor tweaking and spell-checking for a probable grand total of 5 minutes. So, how did you get the greek text to appear? Peace back at ya.
http://www.kypros.org/cgi-bin/lexicon
Cut and paste. Never let it be said a masterpiece cannot be written in under 5 minutes. Here to tell ya.
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