Show and Tell Friday – Poetry Selections

I’d like to share a piece of my poetry with you.  Feedback, constructive criticism, and responses/interpretations of this work are all welcome and encouraged.

 

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Singing of the Spheres

 

 

Your golden roar awakens me

amid rattling windows

and rustling blinds;

the cold sill

on my hard elbow,

speaks of silver-backed midnight-birds

who soar ever-eastward to capture the dawn.

 

In the dark of the theatre,

I reach to you,

watch the aisle-lights twinkle

amid chiaroscuro projections;

these are not wishes or dreamers on a screen,

but mere dew drops

cast upon the blanket of night.

 

Beneath a cold chandelier she watches us.

Every vice is a flavor tickling her stony tongue,

with each devotion and incantation,

she tosses her head of fiery tresses

from side to side – a beaded curtain hung about

the door of heaven -

sprinkling sunlight across verdant unknowns.

© 2007 Jade Leone Blackwater

… and tell:

I wrote Singing of the Spheres in the summer of 2005.  The first draft was written just before dawn, which undoubtedly influenced the star and light/shadow imagery that I enjoyed while writing this piece.

Please feel welcome to ask questions or share comments – feedback helps me grow.

Thank you for reading!

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