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in the
coming a.m.
buried deep in
clay –soft in sleep lay
the dream -
wild – its end stolen
past purloined
beginnings –
buried deep in
clay ready to rise
in sunsoaked
cloak of powers–
burns the
dawning dream –ready
to arise from
clay – to stand on
strong bare
feet, to speak in untied-
tongues -buried
deep in clay -this wild
unleashed-for-glory–dream-without-end
stirs in the
coming morning, as one shining
human
entity shakes
eoned
sleep from eyes
finally to see,
to live the
wild
dream of one world,
one
heart, one collective
soul risen from
cool clay to
sing
with one crystal voice –
shimmering from
single grain
of stinging
sand to arctic glaciers crashing–
bounding,
through all that lies between –
from the
velvet wing of butterfly to the roar
of tsunamied
sea–singing as one clear voice-
All
distilled to one shining perfect being –
spinning
the blue marble between the
palm of one
hand- this dream–now-realized
risen-form-from-clay awake. proclaiming in
the soft
whisper of a flushed joyful newborn mother –
in the rolling
operatic fever of ten billion threatened
fathers –
affirming with one voice – in this one world–
at one time
I am.
Seriously, this is so good & I believe would make a perfect performance piece. How well you managed the intensity in this very encouraging poem. Powerful! Thank you, I have tremendously enjoyed it.
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Lovely writing, Pearl. This poem builds and builds to a fine crescendo. I enjoyed "wild dream of one world, one heart, one collective soul ." And "I am One." Sounds like heaven to me!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful use of repetition - and variations on it. And wonderful the way you keep flowing on, al one sentence, maintaining the intensity.
ReplyDeleteWhat awesome pictures you have painted in this real dream world, almost religious in its fervent imaginings.
ReplyDeletewhat a certain write..a real solidity seeps through every building brick of line and word...
ReplyDeleteAt that moment when a child Is born the whole word is focused into that single moment... So many paths seem to merge at this place and time... Wonderful thoughts put down in that perfect pebble.
ReplyDeletewhat power every word releases !!!
ReplyDeletePearl, now I understand your comment about us sharing some lines and thoughts this week. Yes! This poem is magnificent - a cry of hope and strength against all that is in peril. Nothing more hopeful than a newborn. Fantastically powerful imagery in this stirring poem.
ReplyDeleteThe repetition works to build up to a crescendo...this is a creative masterpiece.
ReplyDeleteI love how this rises and falls on the tongue as I say it out loud...powerful!
ReplyDeleteThis is a tour de force on so many levels, Pearl. I love the threads of the clay and the single voice shining through this dense piece. I also love the way it looks on the page.
ReplyDeleteThis is so lovely! Very powerful use of imagery! Inspired.. :D
ReplyDeletexoxo
So far, in my opinion, your best balanced and wonderful work thus far.
ReplyDeleteZQ
I like the way this poem builds in intensity. Well done.
ReplyDeleteVery powerful piece, as you read you feel the power building excellent work.
ReplyDeleteThis contains the ebb and flow of mythopoesis, and I really, really like that. The making of a new world which begins with an infant's birth. Good one, Pearl,
ReplyDeleteElizabeth
thank you Elizabeth ... without being grandiose it is a rare and lovely treat to learn a new word - AND - you were on the same wavelength reading as was I in the writing of this poem - Deep appreciation ...
Deletehow to establish one's future, from birth until it got influenced by the surrounding environment.
ReplyDeleteThank you to one and all. It is one thing to fling some words out from some unknown place to rearrange and tweak them a bit and throw them into virtual space - as you all know yourselves - it is a delight beyond articulation to feel the words and meaning caught - your responses to this poem have filled my heart and keep me continuing... often I don't quite know "where" the poems begin - I do know that your outstanding encouragement sustains, humbles, and inspires me <3. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteA dramatic crescendo, like a journey to a destined end, complete, in oneness of spirit.
ReplyDeletePoppy
Amazingly full, thats how I feel after reading this.
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