Sunday 17 March 2013

edging fires

Faun, Horse, and Bird, 1936
Pablo Picasso 
of all the places
I find you here
master of clandestine trysts
words you never wrote on the walls
why I find those in that street?
faint sounds of a train in the background
create a surreal atmosphere
I march towards the edge
do I see a change in your stance?
no one can share that tiny stretch
it's out there somewhere

"faces in the macabre will not allow me to die
I am mingling with the vision
just let me be'

30 comments:

  1. Your tercet at the end makes me smile. I understand that feeling.

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  2. oooh, I am mingling with the vision - let me be. So cool! Love it!

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  3. I too, love those final lines. Good to be reading you again,

    Elizabeth
    http://soulsmusic.wordpress.com/2013/03/17/instruments-of-survival-ii/

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  4. A train? That would really take the surreal to the ultra! What did you make of the setting?

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  5. You really gave life to the painting! Brilliant.

    Always great to see you in Poetry Pantry!Mervity 1140

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  6. Yikes, the word verification made its way into my response.

    Mervity...

    Do you really feel you need this? It is an extra step for anyone, and sometimes I just give up.

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  7. ..and so it shall be, but is that what her heart really wants?

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  8. Well, you were obviously looking...

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  9. "faint sound of a train in the background..." that's a image that always catches me. You set a nice introspective mood with your words.

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  10. The quest for immortality is unending. Artists and writers are on the right track that is why we hear the faint sound of the train. You words always enthrall.

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  11. Gosh. Beauty. Right now this lives with me only in images. I will return to try to understand "the tiny stretch".

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  12. Visions need to be mingled with...

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  13. This, to me, brings visions of a woman walking in the misty night, everything unclear and with fuzzy edges, the seen may not be real and reality remains unseen.... spooky and mysterious, with a touch of the macabre, elegantly conveyed.

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  14. I am mingling with the vision... this can evoke a variety of meanings, scenes. Some of them are wondrous. Some, terrifying.

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  15. im glad i came across your poem.. N my favorite line was the words you wrote on the wall why i find them in streets.. Metaphorical..

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  16. nicely done and thanks for sharing

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  17. This is lovely. It really does give one pause to think.

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  18. Your poem personifies Picasso's art so beautifully.

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  20. I always love the sound of a distant train.
    Excellent response to Picasso's picture.
    K

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  21. Very interesting poem. I read it several time. Paired with the painting..even more interesting.

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  22. "words you never wrote on the walls", that stich/line got me. Jumped of the page. This poem is something made of beauty.

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  23. For me, this poem had much of the same quality as Picasso's art. The title gives a clue and then the feeling emanates through without being overly specific.

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  24. Yes...that invisible graffiti...wonderful take...

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