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Imagination

Every soul a purple shade, drifting
Through queer heights, strange flats, new valleys,
Each step discovering quivering threads
Shifting and unreal, where shadows shimmer,
We sink, lost, standing on the edge of time.

We follow the line in the silent land,
And touch the sea and stand and wait and watch,
Aligned: all know, we are the keys for locks
Yet to be dreamt, the paper for secrets
Yet to be spilt, mysterious objects,
Silent souls.

Author notes

I thought I ought to write something, as I haven't for over a year. As such, this is the forced labour, with the inspiration (if there is any), taken from the subject I am most passionate about, a subject which is perhaps the only place for real imagination outside the arts.

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  • Saint Irial
    September 13
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    This is somewhat good, if only your personality would match your poetry.


    • Calanthe
      September 14
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      Do you claim to understand someone's personality after a brief written encounter? I don't.


  • pumpykin
    September 6

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    A very thought-provoking write The title definitely fits; this is pure abstract imagination, and it's wonderful


  • JorgeST
    May 19
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    great

    you show a good flow of words nice imagery simply great good job


  • Boson Higgs
    April 27

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    I don't read my friends' poems often enough I think, you have a powerful turn of phrase here my friend.

    Also, I like how this poem is so short- a precise set of sentiments, compactly put, I really like it.

  • Eusebius
    November 10, 2008

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    This is really a neat and nifty poem on imagination, chock full of wonderful and bright, shrap and different images... very derftly done! bravo!!!


  • nicki1
    October 12, 2008

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    Oh you wrote something! Wonderful!
    I like this very much... I hope it is a sign of more to come.

    "we are the keys for locks"
    This is my favourite line. I think it is a near perfect comparison, one that I feel I can understand quite well. And it's always nice to read something written by someone else that isn't too far from what you've thought yourself.
    I'm a bit too worse for wear to be trying to fully understand but if a poem can make me stop and think when I read it, that's usually a good sign.


    And I love the background too...

    • Calanthe
      October 12, 2008
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      I think you are right - it is about us, among many things: we who are to go on and study and make the next wave of progress - 'us' in the broadest sense. I hadn't seen it that way before.

      Thank you.


      • nicki1
        October 12, 2008
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        I imagine there will be lots of different views on it. Layers of meaning etc.

        You're welcome

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