Windswept
Windswept
original poetryTo my thoughts—
It carries and scatters them
To the edge of sanity.
My mind is a windswept canvas.
My previous works, erased,
By primordial breath absorbed.
The vacuum removes me from myself
So I can stare through the nothingness
And see the illusion of my pride.
The empty vanity of survival
Is a tired chrone thinly smiling
At me across the campfire of achievement.
In my pallid hands, outstretched towards the flame
Can be discerned decisions ill and great:
The wrinkles as my sorrows shaped the same.
Still there lies a glint within the mother flesh's eyes
Which broth-like, warms the bones, renews,
And cobbles new my flesh disguise.
Placed in pyrostasis by hypnosis of her stare:
Wordless voice entoned by onrush
of the swift & fervent air.
Breath of sadness, breath of time,
Breath of aching life:
Breath that clears my cluttered thoughts,
Howling wind, elusive wife.
Written by
@d-pend
12/13/17
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Breath of the wind, breathing fire in the lungs of the hero. We are treating our past with future mistakes - the heart is a butterfly in a restless silence.
Love for poetry treats deep emotions, the soul raises spirit in the color of fatal beauty - we live in words - Eellent - Amaying -Incredible @d-pend
nice poetry writting in nature awesome.
This is a new, but nice style of poetry that I have not seen. What's it called? I'm just learning about free verse, limericks and sonnets, but have not seen this style before.
Hi @johnwjr7, thanks for your question and comment! I don't have a name for this form. I occasionally use formal structures such as sonnets with alternating rhyme scheme in iambic pentameter so I think there is a bit of that flavor here, mixed with free verse.
I am a mainly self-taught writer/poet so I do a lot of experimenting and combining of forms and approaches as they strike my intuition. I don't really have much education there, for example to write sonnets I just read Will Shakespeare's approach and emulated it without studying other kinds of sonnets. Don't really know anything about limericks at the moment. I'm assuming free verse just means open-ended, which is probably what most of my stuff is.
Thanks again for reading my work!
You are an excellent writer.
Thanks for the kind comment @innerstellar. I really enjoy the written form of expression, even with all its limitations.
Wow, just fantastic! Will read a few more times!
Blew me away with this one :)
Wow, thank you @bitcoinman! :D
Good one. I'm trying to imagine how this song/poem would sound if it was sung.
Hmmmm, interesting! I've never set any of my pieces to music. Nice idea.
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great poetry @d-pend
Wow! What a nice poetry? Pictures combination make it marvelous. Thanks a lot for such a good post.