Monday, April 27, 2020

Entrances//Deaths ~ Transfiguration

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 saints
        but 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.


14 comments:

  1. Ooh, a one-sentence poem! (I love them.) This certainly takes the idea of tea to a whole new level!

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    1. Thank you, Rosemary. It took some doing to write it all as one sentence.

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  2. This 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."💘

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    1. Thank you, Sanaa. This was a tricky one to get just right.

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  3. Unique again and very soecial🌹 I especially like “ but knew the joyous grief
    of submerging our soulless limbs
    in sultry waves of conscious
    will “ 🙏

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  4. I think being set ashore beautified so would be better than staying where we were... maybe something better will come from this April

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    1. I do hope so, Bjorn. Thank you for coming over to read.

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  5. Beautiful, 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.

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    1. The cracks show us whee the light comes in, to paraphrase Leonard Cohen!
      ;-)

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  6. Your use of sibilance is stunning in these lines, Kerry:
    ‘…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!

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