See the swirling of wind afore your eyes like faeries
circular spirals dancing around the moon as it howls
like that of the wolf baying in the night it’s lonely cry
It’s orchestra whirring as willow throws out its spiny limbs
Grabbing at your soaked frame as you stagger along
like a drunken sailor tethered to a rail for fear of being lost
sucked down into the bottomless sea of murk and mire
you crawl with outstretched bony finger grasping to hang on
Ahead it is there a pinpoint of light behind masked tape
straining ahead like a dog on a leash in vain effort
to reach a morsel of food that has been withheld from him
you pick at the tape with a jagged nail brittle and weak
The corner has lifted and silence falls like sails boom
Light…
In French, there is a saying, "Après la pluie, le beau temps." It appies literally to a storm's passing but also to happenings in life. Your verses remind me of this. Thank you, Carol. Love and best wishes to you,
excellent write
a very scary picture like a tornado in the making
Peace be with you
William
Reviewed by Gert van Weenen (Reader)
Reviewed on April 5, 2013
The darkness and struggle against the storm life forces so many times.
It can almost totally suck out the last spark of energy.
How wonderful when we can reach with the last bit of inner force the light, the silence, the inner peace.
I held my breath while I read this and released it when I came to the end, with the light. Calm at the end of the storm...
Released from this leash, shining from the light!
Teresa
Reviewed by D. Vegas (Reader)
Reviewed on March 25, 2013
To me, this sounds like a person coming back to reality. For this person was clinically depressed, "Silence Falls"....seeing light again. Your poetry is breathless!
I have never known faeries (I love that word) to reside in a storm, but I detect that this is some sort of nightmare of mixed emotions where you finally begin to pick away at the edges until you see the “light.”
I love the images you instil in my mind, that some how I'm the person walking in that pic and having your thoughts as you wrote them.
Marvelous probing poetry.
Eerie and mysterious is this gem, Carol. The staggering walk-run toward the center of this person's world is mired with mixed emotions and desire. To what end does this person seek?
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Mark
a very scary picture like a tornado in the making
Peace be with you
William
It can almost totally suck out the last spark of energy.
How wonderful when we can reach with the last bit of inner force the light, the silence, the inner peace.
Beautiful Carol
that YOU are not silent!!
Lady Vivian
Released from this leash, shining from the light!
Teresa
Love,
Deborah
Ron
budd
Light of life assurance. The silence befalls us only for a moment.
Lady Mary Ann
Love ya!
Jane
Marvelous probing poetry.
George
Stay well and keep writing
Eddy