your goodbye is a promise of lightning in the last angel's hand*
I cannot cut away
this love
at such a bright temperture
clean and hard as it is
as we are
perhaps the clasp will loosen in time
grow rusty and forlorn
a lost canoe in the vast sea
courting the undertow
but for now love ~
I shall dip my face
once more
without the favor of surfacing
breathless in need
as we both are ...
Cynthia
*movement song, audre lorde
30 comments:
Speechless!!!
"perhaps the clasp will loosen in time
grow rusty and forlorn
a lost canoe in the vast sea
courting the undertow"
Great lines!!! You're a wonderful poet!!! You know that, don't you?
Lovely imagery. i can just see the canoe adrift and lost at sea.
Hi BrosR. and you are the most
wonderful cheerleader - I really
appreciate that - Thank you!
Hi Aggie, thank you!
Incredibly beautiful, Cynthia! I smile. I laugh. I remember. I hold on. I let go. I love. Ah, wonderful, indeed.
Hi Judith, thank you!
Oh! "I cannot cut away this love"...oh, Cynthia, such depth within this one line, though love it all!
~ Calli
Hi gorgeous, thank you so much
for your kind comments!
The power and pull of such love... you capture it so beautifully!
What is love?
A burning fire?
A freezing water fall on naked flesh?
An understanding of self expressed?
There is in broken verse an ability to speak a many faced truth and truth is always many faced.
Love it!
Beautiful!! and I completely understand the sentiment.
Hi Catherine, thank you so much!
Hi Anonant, I just love the verses
you offer, like an endnote or
beginning note to my small poems.
Thank you very much!
Hi sweet Meena, I'm so glad that
you do - Thank you!
Love is everything. I like how you put your heart in your writings.
Hi Kim, thanks so much for noticing. Keep visiting.
Anyone once in love will appreciate this, Cynthia
very well written :)
wishes,
devika
WOW! Who are you?:)
Thank you sooo much for making my day and visiting my blog. You took my grandmama and gave her life again! What a great diary entry, Cynthia! Are you a professional? Where do you practice your craft? I loved how you weaved in the ethnic background so lovingly. Merci bien y gracias tambien! Anita
Hola Anita! You've made my morning
with such a gracious response to
my imagination. I only practice my
craft here and occasionally I will
submit to poetry journals, which
of late I've been a little lazy.
However, during this Easter vacation my vow is to submit prose
or poetry each day, in the hopes of
becoming published.
I adore both of your blogs and hope to find further inspiration
in the future.
Gracias, Anita, and your Grandmama
was very beautiful, but more important her face holds strength
and character, making it so easy
to imagine a life for her.
Hello Devika, I miss commenting on
your poetry, but truly understand where you are coming from in needing this break.
Thank you so much for taking the
time to come and visit and comment
on my poems.
Stay well Devika.
Beautiful words. Thanks for visiting me this weekend. Enjoy.
"WOW! Who are you? :)"
I love this! So true.
Cynthia, you are the beautiful poet.
Dear Cynthia,
I would like to pick one of your lovely poems to post during the month of April on my blog. Or you can pick a favorite one if you would like.
Thanks a lot
Khaled
Hi Kwana, thank you for returning
the favor.
Hello glorious Judith! Thank you
so much.
Hello Khaled, it would be an honor
for you to publish a poem of mine
on your blog - which is quite
stunning, each poem brims with the
heart in all her different phases.
Please email me to let me know
which poem you will post.
Thank you for the compliment!
"breathless in need
as we both are..." oooh so so sensuous - how wonderful love is!
Beautiful and delightfully written Cynthia.
Hi Janice, yes I agree Love is
beautiful and life-affirming.
Thank you for visiting!
Reading again, these lines are as beautiful as any that I have read anywhere. The juxtaposition of emotions, the images, the resignation, the hope, the love, the pain, the acceptance; ah, it's so beautiful!
I LOVE the Audre Lorde line! It's a perfect lead in.
Hello Glorious Judith, thank you,
for sprinkling me with your
glory dust. The hugest compliment
for me is to have a reader return
to a poem and re-experience her.
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