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professor
professor
Apr 16, 2009 ⭐ View statistics (Premium feature)

Waiting for love

The sky stoops low,hung with stone-deaf,protective gargoylescloaked in grey-faced,Easter habits.Their silent,gaping mouthschanting repressed fearswith the dirgesof resurrected past. Spring’s fragile shoots,the tendrils ofhalf- exposed promises,struggle in the gripof frost-choked,white-lipped deceipt,suffocatinghope-seeded groundwhere patience waitsthe budding of thatfragrant, single truth,whose flower he loves,to slip the withering chillof all her winters’ past,and be his everlastingsummer’s bloom.
 
— professor, Apr 16, 2009

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Region, Country: China/Sichuan/Chengdu, CHN

Favorite Poets: Yeats, Elliot, Auden, Keats, Shelley, Byron

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Tonya

Tonya

17 years 1 month ago

Things must not be rushed!

Things must not be rushed! Eventually our love and spring will come. Sometimes when we believe something is suppose to happen, is done in good faith and falls to the wayside, through no fault of our own though. Like the cold in your poem, re-visiting, to kill back/set back the blooms of spring/events in life (I also see a parallel to love or live events, cut short in an early bloom, only to be nipped back again.) Your first half.. love the image. Stone cold gargoyles--ominous, feels like they are heralding death. The second half gives promise though. I really like it! Always Sincere, Tonya
professor

professor

17 years 1 month ago

Ty Tonya

Yes the extreme contrasts between the first and second parts of the poem are deliberate. It follows a course from coldness and death through to spring and new life and with a final promise of everlasting summer. Glad you liked it. BW Keith
Seren

Seren

17 years 1 month ago

Keith

This is a very powerful piece ... im speachless .. well done my friend Love and Light JayC x
professor

professor

17 years 1 month ago

Ty JayC

Not like you to be speechless lol. BW Keith x
Seren

Seren

17 years 1 month ago

Bloody cheeky englishmen !!

Bloody cheeky englishmen !! hahahaha sorry couldnt help myself ... (insert person rolling round laughing) .. still a good read though .. LOL Love and light JayC x
faerybeki

faerybeki

17 years 1 month ago

Keith, there’s some

Keith, there's some glorious imagery here, loved it! :) A bit like Tonya, I like the change in tone in the second part. Hell keith, I've read it 4 times now and each time it seems to reveal something new to me. Awesome job! much love b x
professor

professor

17 years 1 month ago

Ah yes i do try

to put a number of layers in my poetry Beki which I hope will allow he discerning reader to derive many different meanings rather than just the obvious surface one. Thanks so much for your appreciation. Who is the little one in the pic by the way? BW Keith x
faerybeki

faerybeki

17 years 1 month ago

Appreciation warranted :)

I must say you are successful at it, these 'onion' poems! lol. Little one in the pic is my daughter, she's a beauty, I write a lot for/about her she has brought me such joy and meaning. lots of my 'Omi' poems posted here if you've time to find them. Much love b x
professor

professor

17 years 1 month ago

Promise not to make you

cry too much with the onions then lol. Your daughter looks sweet and yes i will get round to reading your 'Omi' poems I promise. Keith x
Cloudthings

Cloudthings

17 years 1 month ago

Huge admiration for the write, the sentiment, the sensitivity th

This is a wonderful, wonderful read Professor, I am laid bare by it in fact, set to silence for a while, quite reverently, it's a nice feeling to honour something so... Where were you when I was looking for love huh? Kidding! Huge admiration for the write, the sentiment, the sensitivity the passion & sadness it evokes, well I can't pick out a favourite line since they are all my favourites. How on earth have I missed reading so much of your work, do you lay low? I want to read more, that's for sure. Hope spring gets sweeter for you Anni ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "...We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? ... Your playing small doesn't serve the world..."
Cloudthings

Cloudthings

17 years ago

This write is a swirling, luscious, dreamy treat, any excuse to

Yep, I'm with you Jayney babe! Absolutely we should all get to see this shining superbly delicious mmm. How I adore this Neo world. This write is a swirling, luscious, dreamy treat, any excuse to read it again is a jolly good thing xxx~ Anni ~~~ "Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything." -Anon