glassed and light enough

Day lightly lifts the shadows
Kookaburra laughter ripples through the eucalypts,
dispelling thoughts of serious
or any other note.

Darkness clinging to the insides of my eyelids
and this cedar window frame,
these panels glassed and light enough
to give my eyes contractions,
birthing pains,
as I slide from sheets into this day.

Dreaming of her Beaugolais,
and the beauty of her syntax.

These lightly plucking raindrops
making music,
as my tin roof takes them,
rolls them into streams beyond its edges,
lets me flow away.

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Comments

Craig Norris

16 years 11 months ago

in the meeting with heavens song

that's a beautiful little gift, thank you Blanka, I still have a lot of difficulty believing that you are new to writing. It's a proposition that seems hardly credible, but, it's one that I am prepared to grow accustomed to. Love to you Craig

Craig Norris

16 years 11 months ago

you honour me Blanka

and two years is such a short time. I feel for you, and you write so well for her. This first poem speaks of such longing and love, of gentle sweet reaquaintance. It is beautiful,and made more so by your telling. Thank you so much for sharing, I'm sure she's by your shoulder. Love Craig

Miss Vivian

16 years 11 months ago

Delightfully beautiful

Delightfully beautiful Craig. You have the amazing ability to give eyes to the heart. Miss Vivian

Craig Norris

16 years 11 months ago

my heart only has eyes...

thanks so much Miss V, dispelling thoughts of serious, is a line that owes quite a lot to you and the poem that you posted. So I'm really glad you liked it. Cheers Craig

bjp

16 years 11 months ago

Dear Craig,

This seems a lovely poem. It also seems somewhat to honour Anasta Zia's "Animate", which I know she'd like. There are nice layers here. Like the variable metaphoric meanings of tin roof. Very nice work. Regards, bjp

Craig Norris

16 years 11 months ago

thank you kind sir

I have visited Anasta Zia's "Animate" on a couple of occasions now, it too is a busy poem which challenges me, so I like it a lot, honour it,and will do so again no doubt. Cheers Craig

Fleur MacDonald

16 years 11 months ago

Yes Awesome

No Really Fantastic!!!! Fleur ps, I loved it

Craig Norris

16 years 11 months ago

so you do like it

Thank you Fleur, for your triple barrelled compliment, it's exceedingly generous of you, thanks so much. Craig

anasta zia

16 years 11 months ago

glassed and light enough

Comment tu vas , Craig! "Day lightly lifts the shadows" You are a most sensitive and courageous fellow in your efforts to articulate your ideas and emotions. I think, perhaps, this is more difficult for men than women. I thank and honour you for this. Your words and world seem to be sailing upon a transparent catamaran out in the open sea. Sometimes a stone skips by causing disturbance and also a beautiful ripple. It seems that beauty and ugliness are fraternal twins - each clandestinely crooking its neck to get a glance of the other. "Grassed and light enough" truly reveal your overwhelming desire to find beauty. For example, "Darkness clinging to the insides of my eyelids" is a wonderful line - eyes reveal the world to us and yet we easily become blind to the world. I adore the line "and the beauty in her syntax". One of our greatest needs, as human beings, is to communicate, to be understood, to decipher our true loves' meaning in the greater scheme of things. Our brains and our ability to speak allow for metaphor which is one of the highest forms of communication. Otherwise we shrink away into a dark corner. I congratulate you on a lovely cluster of words. adios anasta zia

Craig Norris

16 years 11 months ago

thank you so much anasta zia

This is very lovely that you should take this time, these comments are true rewards. I do sail somewhat transparent upon this ocean and in this feel I see the better. "and the beauty of her syntax" is as you say the expression of the longing for connection and closeness, something that can be found here in these pages. As your friend bj noted, these two lines owe some to you. Dreaming of her Beaugolais and the beauty of her syntax. So I am pleased you like my scrivings. thanks cheers to you Craig