Too Soon To Crawl

aDarkerMind

too soon to crawl

through the pollen counting mainstream

from orthodoz to the life-line's lost trapeze.

each stretch of land more desert than repose.

complete control,

this circumstance, this melancholy mood

at home among the lilacs 

the devil's shades of summer in a still.

there is little yet to look at

now the holly squints and stutters like a lord.

no sudden light of consequence

shall overturn the gravel and the spit.

through the elephants eyes

that crumble as they fall,

how tall must be the long arc of a tongue

that dares to call our spade a mandolin?

there are a milion pregnant leaves beneath my chin

each one a shade of charcoal

fanning flames on Dartmoor

as the sea comes crashing in.

anxiety and doubt.

now swimming with the maggots

diamond-white with their fishing rods

dull, yet dutiful.

it is still too soon to crawl.

this circumstance, this melancholy mood

at home among the lilacs 

in the corner of a shoe;

 

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  • Teddy.15

    Exquisite poetry as ever, there are so many lines,
    melancholy rave

    at home among the lilacs

    the devil's shades in summer in a still

    Love these lines on particular. 🌹

    • aDarkerMind

      thank you Teddy....most kind, as always.

      I hope you are keeping well my friend.

    • sorenbarrett

      I don't pretend to be wise enough to understand all of this but like looking at a modern art masterpiece I get the feel. As I read I feel different waves with each line and my imagination drifts in a word association where I see modern man and fixation on the trivial pollen counting his orthodox views have left a desert of the planet. Our view of superiority ironically have eliminated species and left desolation all upheld by legal authority of the wealthy Yet there will be consequences for this taking control before we are ready to crawl. How's that for a cornball interpretation?

      • aDarkerMind

        I would suggest you have read and understood it very well Soren.

        cornball or otherwise...

        this planet is a mess, and I feel no amount of money will ever put this world right.

        not that the rich will ever bother to try!

        many thanks Soren.

      • 2781

        It reminded me of those still on the paps.

      • Thomas W Case

        Amazing. Great work.

        • aDarkerMind

          many thanks Thomas,
          very much appreciated.

        • Tristan Robert Lange

          Excellent, my friend. Your imagery is second to none. Well done! 🌹👏

          • aDarkerMind

            you are most kind Tristan, as always....
            thank you very much my friend.

            • Tristan Robert Lange

              You are welcome, Mevin!

            • Parisab

              Few look beneath the soil surface-the treacherous path of the roots beneath the growth of the spring beauty-thank you for casting the shady parts of beauty, in this poem …

              • aDarkerMind

                and thank you for your most kind words...
                very much appreciated.

              • Cheeky Missy

                [So, yeah, I kept extolling this site daily in our phone calls until she, despite having refused my repeated invitations to join, finally once I'd given up and forgotten, decided to join, and the world has exploded, but of course.] Modern poetry at its finest, how capably rendered with such a wealth of imagery and a twist, oh me! Poignant to a point most hauntingly, ah, thank you so very much for sharing, Sir.

                • aDarkerMind

                  and thank you for most kind words....
                  such comments make my world a better place.



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