This is another of my poems very loosely inspired by a dream. It's been taken out of that sleepy context, if dreams can be said to really have context.
Mismatched Messenger
By Francis Scudellari
A mismatch-making messenger --
its painted Kewpie doll's head
crudely glued to dovish body --
she frees from a tinfoil-wrapped cage
The bipolar-white wings outspread
to affect a slow-creeping glide
as this at-odds stranger descends
in clockwork-countering spirals
Its too pretty, rounded features
tooled on delicate ceramic
sharpen in edgy marked contrasts,
drawing never closer to me
The lifeless blue star-speckled eyes
string-pulled open by black bar brows;
the twin, red-dotted cheeks pushing
pursed lips not meant to kiss, but peck
Wire-thin, coiled pink talons grasping
a tightly rolled note, loose string-tied
and filled with her mock-poison words
penned at the tip of flaming tongue
The latest targeted missive
that it so precisely drops to
sweet trickle and prod me onward
in love bitterly imagined
6 comments:
LIke a dream, it formed images of randomness,
but, as a poem, it left me wanting and wordless,
Amazingly adorned with words of brilliance,
only Francis Scudellari can magically balance.
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She may have come from a dream, but you've drawn her in clear hard words as vivid as the material world.
@Zorlone Thanks... that's pretty high praise. I always enjoy connecting the randomness that my mind presents me :).
@Mark I've been blessed with a very vivid imagination, and it tends to run wild at night.
Hi Francis,
I find it intriguing and sweet at the same time. But I usually have 2-3 thoughts in my mind when I read your poems. And I enjoy this interactive process of fusion between me and you-the writer. Now I fully understand Gadamer's hermeneutics and Heidegger's notion of art.
Thanks for a thought-provoking poem.
How I wish I could write as vivid as that!
Thanks Daniel... I like to think of my poems as vividly twisted :).
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