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The Way Of Wag

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Do you know my eyes

that spill in leather limitation,
lifting scrim to feather;

shine to find,
a lost-love constellation?


I breathe your trust in stars,
inhaling,
holding heaven’s pact, as sequins,

resting rolls of yeasted leaven,
through bread I spread in light,
still feeding;

noble breeding, breaking crust, dust to dust
in needing night
to find, as sacramental salvage,

the way of wag, in tail to keep it.


Carol,
you are sacred spirit,
waging war,

between cold flesh and windy secret,

score to bore, as bare intention
weaving lines of apprehension,

down life's wishing list to check
as promised.


Such a graceful gift
of intellect,

New England dialect, panting twisted Nature,
soft in north wind, pounding verse
to noble revelation;

and due respect,

you flow in garden's growing,
slow at times
to talk in temple,

showing love through supplemental freedom,
gnawing lips at subtle throat,

soul-sun,

as thawing moat,
still crossing,
shimmered truth

to tell in tossing.


I crave romantic waves of righteous,

saving slaves,
united in gifts of wilder work,
so quiet,

never shirking sound
from symmetry,

but knowing love
will find it's circle,

level,

to dance our swollen fields of springtime.











Author notes

"What you don't feel, you will not grasp by art,
Unless it wells out of your soul
And with sheer pleasure takes control,
Compelling every listener's heart.
But sit - and sit, and patch and knead,
Cook a ragout, reheat your hashes,
Blow at the sparks and try to breed
A fire out of piles of ashes!
Children and apes may think it great,
If that should titillate your gum,
But from heart to heart you will never create.
If from your heart it does not come."
(from Faust I)

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  • CarolDesjarlais silver member
    June 5, 2008

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    Oh geez...oh geez.... a tear finds a way to express what you must now I feel. this is going on the www.shewolfnative2 site if I may....what honor here to share with others....


  • ten thousand cicadas gold member
    June 4, 2008

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    A beautiful poem, and you describe Carol, as well as the strength of the soul, so wonderfully in these lines.

    And, what lovely craftsmanship! You always do such a fine job with lyricism, but some of the internal rhymes here were exceptionally creative.

    So nicely done.


    • CarolDesjarlais silver member
      June 5, 2008
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      oh, man...how can this not touch even the toughest .....

      thank you for your comment, dear heart.


  • poet2angels gold member
    June 4, 2008

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    What a beautiful gift you give here in lovely words whispered from a softly spoken spirit...I know that Carol will treasure this...So ANgelic this is!!!

    Lynda

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