but only gradually
up and over it rolls
like smoke gently
rotating up up and
lightly away from
a bed of live coals
rising and roiling
climbing to define
its emancipation
a fine figural blur
gently writing as
it writhes in it’s
hinted at pleasure
ethereal yet replete
in hedonists garb
of a velvety grey
twisting erotically
catching the light
& casting it back
with both a deft
and effortless grace
that’s a precursor
to its swift slick
disappearance
its sudden posting
of absence that
both surprises us
and describes in
the same instant
the outré nature
of this enigma
whose afterimage
the only presence
that it beguilingly
leaves us to ponder
itself fades away
but only gradually
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Author:
Roy Exley (
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- Comment from author about the poem: It's about transience and how possession of a moving aesthetic experience is an impossibility and a futile idea.
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Comments3
Good write Ron.
In that fading away
It does not leave us
It just transmutes
Into a better life.
Andy
a wonderful example of modernity's capacity
for accessibly warded and profoundly, relatable: Poetry
thanks for sharing..
'ethereal yet replete
in hedonists garb
of a velvety grey
twisting erotically
catching the light
& casting it back
with both a deft
and effortless grace
that’s a precursor
to its swift slick
disappearance
its sudden posting
of absence'
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