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Friday, April 04, 2008

Conversations long ago ebbed

By Francis Scudellari

Conversations
Long-ago ebbed
To unknowing,
Stagnant, preserved
In murky depths,
New roiled rise up;
With sudden sense
Flashed memory --
A touch, a smell --
Her voice floods back

Mixed-up flows fresh
In white-noise washed;
Many merged strands,
Tangled phrases
Slowly sifted;
Minded pools drained,
Rippling inward,
Spiraling down;
Sad trickled words --
Intermittent

Drops -- in silence
Negated; I
Desperately
Reply, recall
Full-throated shout
Thrust into time-
Thickened sludge, where
Weighted, waking
Pulled, it trails off …
Unheard echoes

11 comments:

BillyWarhol said...

Great Prose Dude!!

;)) Peace*

fihanna said...

You still call me, caro!
Drops -- in silence...
Francis, funziona GoogleTalk,
grazie;P

Francis Scudellari said...

Thanks Billy

Francis Scudellari said...

Good news Hanna. Now you can have complete strangers chat with you :).

Anonymous said...

An X perhaps? Well done Francis. Another exemplary poem. I'm still waiting to see your work at the MW Society page. :-)
~JD

Francis Scudellari said...

Thanks JD,

It's a combination of past and present, real and imagined, dreamed and experienced "stuff" all neatly tucked away in my brain.

I was in a bit of a down mood the beginning of the week so am just now getting back in stride. I need to reassess what I'm doing a bit ... here and off-line. At minimum I'll stop by and post my MWS poem.

fihanna said...

Hi Francis!
lo sai perchè c'è la chat, news e cose varie per i blogs?
Perchè un visitatore passa più tempo nel tuo blog e così sale PR di Google...hahahah
Ciao caro!

Francis Scudellari said...

Ciao Hanna,
Yes, I think Google is making out pretty well from all the "free" stuff :).

fihanna said...

hm, also I am freed...
;)

fihanna said...

manca l'illustrazione!
a proposito...
;PPP

Francis Scudellari said...

I promise to work on it today.