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Thursday Read Write Poem

Posted on 16:57, December 17th, 2009 by EKSwitaj

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Love at First Snight

            safer than radar
 precious as moon-hit trees
abiding wind & curled meteors

 pierced w/backs of stars

and your back like a shell
  when the telephone connects
 pulled from silence

all of this moved in my life
abiding days, wages, oceans
apart       — nights when words
approach      neglect

        with careful fingers
        slow & open palms

there was a first before Again

written in response to read write prompt #105: borrowed words

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5 Responses to “Thursday Read Write Poem”

Tumblewords on December 17th, 2009 at 8:04 pm

A beautiful reality check and re-run. Great read!
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Linda Fraser on December 18th, 2009 at 1:44 am

Your poem has wonderful connections and associations. It’s “precious as moon-hit trees” and I thank you for sharing it, Elizabeth!
Linda Fraser’s last blog ..READ,WRITE PROMPT #105: A WORDLE, Wm. STAFFORD

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Paul Oakley on December 18th, 2009 at 6:14 am

I like this movement between images stellar and human:

curled meteors
pierced w/backs of stars
and your back like a shell

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David Moolten on December 18th, 2009 at 2:50 pm

I really like the idea of things moving in a life; it suggests a kind of steeping, of hidden process, so that the original event changes, ripens, matures, thus making the experience and the poem mysterious and magial, and the ending all the more powerful.
David Moolten’s last blog ..Intron Moment

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