Tuesday, December 14, 2021

A pill for amentalio in winter

 

between the hours of mid-

night and dawn,

sad thoughts float in the etherness


between the lines of stories

sentiments surge with violet beats

tiding low, a murmuration

of black birds skimming 

just above the dotted water line

i am caught in kenopsia, weathered

wings in stillness

my tongue tied in heartspur of

ticking white clock


i drift into a starlone of fathomless

quietude, a cycle of dreaming

and undreaming-

i am nameless, ageless

convinced that i am swirling

into lisolia limbo

shrugging away craxis of pixelled

gravity screens & instant gratification from

metaverse


between light and darkness

make this wave in my mind

a weave with the universe

a thread to break away from aphasia

a matter to soothe the aftergloom

that even with my excelled tinselled fingers,

i can still long to be that comet

hurling headlong in blazing dust

[to where]

a heartmoor

i know it is there

its there


[we are here]



Posted for dVerse Poets Pub - Poetics:  The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, hosted by Linda Lee Lyberg.   Join us when the pub doors open at 3pm EST.


23 comments:

  1. 'sentiments surge with violet beats

    tiding low, a murmuration

    of black birds skimming

    just above the dotted water line'

    - So beautiful, Grace. And you did a great job of weaving in so many of those obscure sorrows.

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  2. I love what you did with the words... and how you let the melancholia ending in a sense of hope... I know you can find it.

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  3. Grace- this is absolutely stunning! You have created an ethereal place rife with emotions.

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  4. Wow....those words just flowed in...really powerful..I know it is there...its there....beautiful

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  5. This is gorgeously rendered, Grace!💝 I especially love; "I drift into a starlone of fathomless quietude, a cycle of dreaming and undreaming."

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  6. An intense constellation of emotions, Grace.

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  7. Gossamer sweetness even if the fake words keep sticking out.

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  8. So beautifully atmospheric. At once, an admission of quiet grief, and a rallying cry against it. & how wonderfully you used all of the words!

    I'm undone! 😀

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  9. This is exquisite, Grace.

    Much love,
    David [ben Alexander]

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  10. i really felt the melancholy of the ending.

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  11. The invented words give it an enigmatic sense, impossible to know whether we've got the intended emotion, but that's part of the beauty of the sound.

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  12. I love

    "i can still long to be that comet

    hurling headlong in blazing dust"

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  13. Gorgeous, Grace! I got carried away in the ebb and flow of your words and then blasted off into space with that comet! I love the final stanza especially :-)

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  14. You capture and refine my own current mood with this, Grace. The first and second stanzas blew me away..so many delicate, floating images that evoke a mood of unmoored ideas lost in a dream, feelings that wander in a limbo they can't break free from..and so the whole poem. The end especially is inexpressibly poignant.

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  15. “between light and darkness/make this wave in my mind/a weave with the universe”: these lines crystallized for me the melancholia in a way that is beyond words ironically, given the prompt. Pure poetry with its own evocative logic, so effortless and smooth. Then the blazing comet of hope at the end. I love it, Grace.
    Pax,
    Dora

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  16. Between midnight and dawn and between the lines of stories...wow! Superb!

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  17. Fantastic use of so many of the words given. And the imagery stunning. I luv the echis of Decartes to end

    Much💟love

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  18. Your blackbirds have me longing for, dreaming of, HOME!

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  19. a cornucopia of a poem, Grace. hope you are well ~

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  20. All the magic words of longing. Winter is always a between time.

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  21. Well done, and seemingly effortlessly.

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