Dying/broken/forgiven.... now I begin

Born: 17-06-56....gemini.... monkey
re-born: 3-09-80
born again\found: 14-04-08
other notable dates: 10-03-68; 03-09-87; 23-03-96;
1-05-98; 31-01-02; 5-04-04

Interests: movement, stressed/transgressive embodiment, lived experience (body\space\time\relation)
expression ( word, dance, text, image, story, music, poetics)
learning, yielding......

Hopes for the blog:
offer up the wild intersectedness of lived experience and engage others in creative, expressive, perhaps irreverant, hopefully playful, and respectful encounters....
enact kindness
create moments of pause for disclosure, discovery, stillness

Thursday, November 18, 2010

....this compelling fiction


don't 
let my lightheartedness 
fool you
see
down deep
inside
stillness
works 
magic
builds songs
tumble
stumble
recover some
stones 
hold the hands
carry the load
call the shots
fire
no regrets
only exhausted howling
self 
restraint
smiles
all day cries
all night

owls offer patient timeless regard
unhurried
watchful
gazing dispassionate
silence
a great and dangerous deception
hovers
poised
falling into a darkness of its own
making
this next breath the next
right 
thing


8 comments:

  1. I like the dark night raptors. The hunger of them as they wait silently for the mouse or rabbit to move. No Cartoon in this, owls are smart but not always wise and never light hearted.

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  2. WM-- yes, they are the sentinels along the watchtower, aren't they? thanks for the comment and your insight.

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  3. "down deep inside stillness works magic" speaks of the benefits of keeping your powder dry.
    Lovely lines that hide a veiled threat - like an owl indeed.

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  4. silence
    a great and dangerous deception
    Ahhh there's a line I like.....Tweaty

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  5. pisces-- thanks for noticing the layers in there... keeping the powder dry is still a good strategy!!
    tweaty-- that line does have a nice quirky feeling to it, doesn't it? thanks for the visit and the comment. nice to see you here.

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  6. I love this. I love how quick the read is and almost a holding of ones breath/a pause to think ; at the end.

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  7. I like the way it captures the dark night of the soul stuff. And I do love the shape of your verse too.

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  8. SarahA--thanks! it is a quick read, that's kinda deliberate, especially with the words that can be a beginning and an ending at the same time; glad this worked for you.
    Madame-- what a nice insight about the dark night of the soul.... the shape was more happy coincidence but i'm glad it worked! thanks for the visit and the comment

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