Poem Number 23126

the status quo

I sleep, during my waking hours.
I am awake in my dreams.
I am alive during the night.

My hopes are sung through every sleeping breath,
notes struck softly, gently,
whispers in the darkness.

My prayers are embodied in movement;
the restless turning from side to side,
seeking comfort.

My arms reach out. The ceaseless longing.
Yearning for the unsaid words, mutually understood,
yearning for contentment.

I dream of a sailboat, gently doused in sunlight.
I dream of the maternal rocking of the water,
staring into the clouds.

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this is one of the best poems i've ever read on this page. -chandler
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wow. thanks. that kinda makes my day.
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All I can say is amazing (((((()))))))peacefrog
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This may sound infantile but, this poem reads a little different top to bottom than it does bottom to top. Really quite a complete image sort of like Hilda Doolittle.
Whirl up, sea-
whirl your pointed pines,
splash your great pines on our rocks,
hurl your green over us,
cover us with your pools of fir.
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the last comment got half way there - invert this poem - make the end the beginning and the beginning the end. wisdom comes to those who do not wait.....Also, I really like what peacefrog has done with the brackets!!
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apologies - I made the last comment - i detest anon comments. I am Mat Stevens from London.
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Normally I identify my halfway wisdom, sorry if my annonymity irks. I am reading about an "imagist" poet and a contemporary of Ezra Pounds. Hilda doolittle uses plain english, and exotic vocabulary like someone who can just flig it around This is a well composed set of images. ~Cooker

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Sigh- that would be fling it around.
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sorry cooker - i was referring to my own previous comment and berating myself for not signing my name. not you! no offence meant! apologies for any confusion! Happy christmas world. Mat S. Flig is a great word! I'd love to flig something around!
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sorry cooker - i was referring to my own previous comment and berating myself for not signing my name. not you! no offence meant! apologies for any confusion! Happy christmas world. Mat S. Flig is a great word! I'd love to flig something around!
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cooker: an interesting observation. though that doesn't mean it necessarily needs to be reversed, as mat seems to suggest.
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I actually really like it both ways, meaning the origninal way and reading it from last verse to first. It has a different feel that way, but it's a good feel...
)Kaleb
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wow that was beautiful, i was scrolling down quickly when this poem stoped my finger and caught my eye.... divine!
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Spectacular visual that sends one into their own dream-like state, searching----
And yes, amazingly as captivating, backwards, as forward.
JLang

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i like it right-side-up and upside-down. fabulous work, þ. *grace