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YEY!! :)) AT LAST! In celebration of my connection to the internet at my new seaside address, here's a poem that's been tucked in the corners of my beachbagbrain for a while... I AM IN MY ELEMENT!! Besides the sea and sand, it's all rivers, heathland, swans, deer and exotic ruins of Norman castles which magically arise out of the sorrounding mists at certain times of the day... Very... All Hallows and all-hallowed... and very romantic Tudor Shakespeare, too!! Hence the saltflavour to this, perhaps... Lookin forward to catchin y'all after a few more of today's seabreezes. Hope all is well back at the ballpark... LOL Krestovawave Kate :))

AVERTED VISION


Too paralysing,
too heavy

that great weight of light
from which we avert our gaze
lest soul eyes burn in acid lucidity
and Forever transforms
in an epiphanic instant.

Yet fear is matched by magnetism,
longing to glimpse that Venus vision
which breathless brings our ship to shore
across infinity’s tideless seas.

As hot-pounding heart of frozen deer
caught muscle-tensed in headlamps’ ray
bleeds for sweet release,

and sagging Tudor mid-air mass
of stately monarch swan
aches for broad-reach waters
to render weightless his flight,

all we can do is to look away, to view
from eye’s corner that outside edge,
the glow that calls us sideways
to an obscured path which, for us,
is wide and true ;

the journey, sometimes flood lit,
sometimes shady, soft and cool