Ten years.
I hope I get some comment this time --if only because I did something different: I made it longer instead of my usual practice of reducing poems, sometimes until they vanish. The old doodle:
Where gravity dreams,
Forces swirl seams,
Marmoreal, like love --a
Temporal spectrum
Pitched into light and
All life above, below
We know a single moment,
A chime unfurled in time.
Its waves curl, rise, fall,
Fold and spread beyond us all,
Leaving salted air --and
What is too far, too old
To see, can at least
Be heard there.
I believe that we are all drawn to the water. There must e a reason.
ReplyDeleteDear Emma, Not only is blood mostly water, but the watery portion of blood, the plasma, has a concentration of salt and other ions that is remarkably similar to sea water. Coincidence or design? Doesn't matter, it's hope and life.
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ReplyDeleteVery beautiful! Obviously the words themselves, but the cadence as well! To me, I hear it read in a rich, deep baritone voice with pronounced timbre and diction.
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Prof., I wish Dylan Thomas was still around to recite poems. He had that voice.
DeleteLovely art work and lovely poem, friend Geo. I know what you mean regarding rebuilding your poems. I do the same with mine.
ReplyDeleteMost times I am agonizing over them to no end. But once it's done, it's done. After it's perfected, I couldn't care less. That's why I kill them each December 31st and start new. I do not keep copies of my past poems and nothing is copy righted. I encourage peeps to take what they like. And I like it that way. Anyway, love, cat.
Dear Cat, When I edited "Poetry Humor Magazine" back in the 1970s, I copyrighted every issue (which was the protective law) but remitted it to every contributor. Now I just post my own work --poems have lives of their own. Over 60 years I have earned ten dollars for my poems. That's more than enough. Love reciprocated.
DeleteThose of us who live near a seaside know well how the power and the grace of the ocean affects our souls. Your poem says this well, Geo. It is beautiful.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful Arleen. My family has also been drawn to large bodies of water, into awe of such power and grace. Thank you, dear soul.
DeleteYour poetry leaves me without words Geo...but it is so beautiful and sings to to the heart.
ReplyDeleteOh Delores, if only I had ten years to frame other things I say... But I'm glad you like my poem. And for listening with your heart, thank you.
DeleteThe ocean surely does sound primordial - great observation, Geo. I am impressed with your "doodle" which looks less like a doodle and more like fine art to me.
ReplyDeleteKind Jenny, In my 20s, I worked in a shop in an alley at picture framing and fine arts restoration. If you knew how many oil-paintings and lithographs of "lightfilled waves" I repaired and in-painted back then, you'd see how I learned the basics from better artists. The '09 doodle over this text was done while renting a weekend house over Duncan's Landing. Lately, I've wanted to go back there.
DeleteI really like this, Geo - and the last three lines are especially perfect. You always embrace a lot in few (but potent) words.
ReplyDeleteI'm never satisfied with my poetry, but - instead of adding or subtracting the length - I always seem to be changing the words.
Dear Jon, change the words,change the length and structure and get used to the tyranny of poetics --but you know that. The darn things have lives of their own and can be quite demanding.
DeleteNote to Baili, thanks for time-traveling back to Wednesday, October 17, 2012 to leave a lovely comment on "October". The earlier version of this poem is much cheered by it!
ReplyDeleteLike ocean waves, your words are magical.
ReplyDeleteGood to read your poetry again, Geo.
Be well, friend.
Dear Friend Robyn, I know I've been remiss in posting poems lately and sure appreciate your comment on this one . I've just written a new poem about stuff Norma is finding in archives I've never seen. It's at "Gardening With Geo." (hot picture!): http://lepslog.blogspot.com/
DeleteThanks for visiting, Azka. Good luck raising the quality of insurance products in Indonesia.
ReplyDeleteOh what can I say about this fantastic poem?
ReplyDeleteIt is profound...it is beyond mere beauty...it truly speaks to the Soul.
There is genuine magic here...in the swirling of the water...in the spiralling of our thoughts...in that sacred space where everything in existence meets...and becomes one.
Here, is true genius...😊😊
I do so hope you are well, my Friend.
I think of you often...
Thanks dear Cat for that most complimentary comment. You have brightened my day!
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ReplyDeletethank for sharing & have a nice day
Again Azka, thanks. I visited your #2 site,"Otomotif", which is well-organized but the cars look upset.
DeleteBrilliantly written!
ReplyDeleteLon Anderson, so good to hear from you again! Thanks for the encouragement (I need encouragement a lot right now)and please accept my good wishes.
Deletei am taking this poem as a half-birthday present this post and my bday is in October so there you go love it geo
ReplyDeleteThank you, Annie B., tomorrow begins your birthday month. I wish you happiness and health, this and all months.
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