This is the poem I've been working on. It was a bit of a struggle, and I may still revisit it. There's not much biographical in it, other than a few loose-stitched scenes from a recent dream.
by Francis Scudellari
From a mind's sharp cycling,
His life spun through;
Then reels forward to now
In colored streams;
Faces, at first static,
Thinly sprinkled
Bits of dust, laid afar
Are raised timeless
In eddies' swirl; Gathered
Up; Loose-tear glued
To feature-smoothed spheres, then
By thought storms flung,
Strike thick crystal landscapes;
Punch-out windows:
Perfect round glimpses of
The backing black
Each impact slow-stretches,
Sudden shatters
His scene-cracked mirror; Shards,
Paper-fold hinged,
On jagged wings fly up,
Cutting skyward;
Each fractured flap captured
Stop-frame motion;
Gravity freed, vapor
Tails wag behind;
Their glass-voiced cries echo,
One-note alarm,
Ring present-trapped ears; Pull
Him disordered
To this world; Awoken
For one moment
9 comments:
Very vivid portrayal of the dream. I can almost imagine those flying shards of glass.
Have you ever dreamed within a dream?
I am curious how you would present this in a poem.
Bravo for this post!
excellent Francis the dream was portrayed well and an intersting question from Jena
"Then reels forward to now
In colored streams"
I love. And I have noticed the new website - nice design, good luck with it!
nice poem..Time spent working is really worth it :)
@Jena I've definitely dreamed about dreaming ... but some might say that we're dreaming even when awake :). That's a good subject for a poem, and I'll see what I can come up with.
@Confused Thanks ... I'm always glad to get musing from my comments :).
@Fiendish Thanks ... I'm not sure yet what exactly I want to do with the new site, but I like that I can use it to organize and archive my writing/drawing.
@OnlineCasinos As long as the work serves your own needs, and not those of a false master.
Your style reminds me of Plath whom I consider to be the mistress of imagery.
@JodaPoet Thanks, that's quite a compliment :).
Just happened on your blog. I'm interested that you capitalise the first letter of each line. Is that a deliberate style for the poem or do you always do it?
@EmergingWriter Not Always, but usually. It's mostly a stylistic choice that I've borrowed from other poets I've read. It sets off each line as its own entity, but of course they also fall within the context of what comes before and after.
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