In the April of Covid 19
Day 27
“A she bird sleeping brittle by her lover’s wings that folded tomorrow’s flight”Dylan Thomas
Transfiguration
We never strove to mingle with saintsbut knew the joyous grief
of submerging our soulless limbs
in sultry waves of conscious
will to drown in the infusion
of our sacred selves
as fearless lips imbibed
the shattered corpses
of those whom we had once been
before the flood cast us wet
and shaken upon the shore
awake in this new country
of the blessed damned beatified by
the transfiguration of our intimacies.
Skylover Wordlist: Intimacies
Play It Again Toads: The Way of Tea by way only of diction.
Ooh, a one-sentence poem! (I love them.) This certainly takes the idea of tea to a whole new level!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Rosemary. It took some doing to write it all as one sentence.
DeleteThis is absolutely phenomenal, Kerry!💘 I love the pacing of this one sentence poem! Especially love; "as fearless lips imbibed the shattered corpses of those whom we had once been before the flood cast us wet."💘
ReplyDeleteThank you, Sanaa. This was a tricky one to get just right.
DeleteUnique again and very soecial🌹 I especially like “ but knew the joyous grief
ReplyDeleteof submerging our soulless limbs
in sultry waves of conscious
will “ 🙏
Special 👍
ReplyDeleteThank you, Linda.
DeleteTruly Lovely Kerry!
ReplyDeleteI think being set ashore beautified so would be better than staying where we were... maybe something better will come from this April
ReplyDeleteI do hope so, Bjorn. Thank you for coming over to read.
DeleteBeautiful, We are definitely on a shore we never thought we'd land on. I keep lighting a candle that tomorrow will not be as dark.
ReplyDeleteThe cracks show us whee the light comes in, to paraphrase Leonard Cohen!
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Your use of sibilance is stunning in these lines, Kerry:
ReplyDelete‘…submerging our soulless limbs
in sultry waves of conscious
will to drown in the infusion
of our sacred selves’.
I tried to read your one-sentence poem in one breath - it left me breathless!
Yay! My work here is done!
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