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Sheer Brilliance
by Kate Burnside → (All Poetry by Kate Burnside)
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A bit nostalgic... or broody?! Oh, I got it... it's the association of pains and bruising! :)) K xx


SHEER BRILLIANCE


You lie, a piece of sheer brilliance,
warm and crumpled in my arms.

A softness I have never known,
like liquid bone, is what you are –
the fabric and feeling of my heart
metamorphosed into
it’s own delicate being.

Your scent is as nothing
ever experienced before:
the feeling of blue
that’s the fragrance of cloud
that’s the colour of the sweetest pain
imaginable.

Your tiny breathing draws me
on silken cords, umbilicals
like a network of lace that
attaches all of me to you.

Every word yet to be spoken
waits in baby womb of your mouth;
each unique thought
and seed of understanding
pulses between unknit
cerebral plates.

Eternity is in your eyes,
that fix me now in forever
whilst yet anchoring me to earth.
Humanity’s whole potential
is in the circle of my embrace.

You are twenty minutes old,
and from everlasting
to everlasting.




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 Reviews of "Sheer Brilliance"
Reviewed on October 4, 2005
Congratulations Kate! It is tooo wonderful!!!!!

Sandie May Angel a.k.a. Sandie Angel :o)

Reviewed on October 3, 2005
Did you have another Baby Katie?
Congratulations on this baby anyway- Awesomely touching into the soul it goesssssssssssssss- Love&Light,Sheee

Reviewed by Nordette Adams
Reviewed on October 3, 2005
Takes the reader through worlds within worlds. ~~Nordette

Reviewed on October 3, 2005
Terrific write, Kate; very well done! BRAVA!

(((HUGS))) and much love, your friend in America, Karen Lynn in Texas. :D

Reviewed by Ch'erie de Perrot
Reviewed on October 3, 2005
I actually starting getting clucky again lately, havent for years since Rae was born, said to myself, no way....
But You get a whiff of a newborn cutie pie, and your a potential baby napper hehe.

I love the way you have captured, the "Sheer brilliance" of the greatest creation.

TY and hugs
Ch'erie

Reviewed by Felix Perry
Reviewed on October 3, 2005
This is immense Sweet Kate and so like you to blend the beauty magic and wonder of a babe in arms with something so remote that it stares at us blatantly from the page to ask us to read, digest and explain. I missed your work while I my pc was down. Great masterpiece here Kate.

Felix (Pops)

Reviewed by Paul Williams
Reviewed on October 3, 2005
Ah the brillance of creation, fantastic stuff Kate

Paul;-}

Reviewed by Mr. Ed
Reviewed on October 3, 2005
Humanity’s whole potential
is in the circle of my embrace.

A truly marvelous mother's perspective, Kate - Well Done!

Reviewed by F William Broome
Reviewed on October 2, 2005
Thanks for a rare and beautiful visit to a part of our youth so easily fortotten. This is sweet beyond description - from a pen of rememberance and love. - Bill

Reviewed by Tinka Boukes
Reviewed on October 2, 2005
Oh yes sheer brilliance for sure!!

Enjoyed your poetry reading aswell!!

Love Tinka

Reviewed by Huda Orfali
Reviewed on October 2, 2005
Yes, sheer brilliance
love your recital, Kate
love and peace
Huda

Reviewed by jude forese
Reviewed on October 2, 2005
the brilliance of creation resounds within your muse as well as within your poem ...

Reviewed by SHERRY HEIM
Reviewed on October 2, 2005
This is sheer elegance, Kate. Though never having had children, I know that this is the feeling that I would have had. Every child is a magical miracle that stirs feelings within us that we never knew existed. Mother...is something that can not be described in words; in the same way that the word love can not be. Amazing write. I will be saving this to read again and again.
Take care,
Sherry

Reviewed by Dawn Richerson
Reviewed on October 2, 2005
the feeling of blue
that’s the fragrance of cloud
that’s the colour of the sweetest pain
imaginable.

sheer brilliance in these lines of yours tonight, Kate. beautiful reminder of the mother love in me. Dawn

Reviewed by Lori Moore
Reviewed on October 2, 2005
Excellent write!

Reviewed by E T Waldron
Reviewed on October 2, 2005
The sheer brilliance is in you Kate,and I can see it take form in whatever you "mother touch" this is one that needs to be the opening
for a book on how mothers should feel and behave! Given to evry teen mom especially! Kudo's KateforKids;-)

Love,
Eileen

Reviewed by A PAX
Reviewed on October 2, 2005
don't you miss those baby days???


i do!!!
ty for this one! pax A

Reviewed by Andy Turner (Reader)
Reviewed on October 2, 2005
Yup they have a special smell for the first 12 months at least.
Plus the other 2 am wake up call smells.
Isaiah makes me laugh where it say's about the new born, ifit could speak would it say to it's parents -can't you do anything right-. Now I is mega broody.


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