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in a thunder




from

clouds of thunder

cumulonimbus

the prince in disguise
comes rushing down
breaking fog
falling rain

fiery red heart
under black coat

you are the shaman
who owns the witches drum
the wild lover with soft tender hands

you are the arabesque in the hall of mirrors

you are
the wildhorse
galloping over the tundra


and when you say

                                   I want you

when you say it


in the catacombs
you have been far too long
amongst the dead and dreary eyes
and open jaws

you have seen the black birds of sorrow

in dark
cold caves you have been resting


maintenant

                 cést le printemps monsieur
                    
                                                          cést le printemps

— odd molly, Oct 04, 2009

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Pamela A. Lamppa

Pamela A. Lamppa

16 years 8 months ago

Very nice

"you are the shaman who owns the witches drum the wild lover with soft tender hands you are the arabesque in the hall of mirrors" These visual images find me simply delighting in your poem. I will never look at thunder the same way again. Now, it will always be the wild lover with soft tender hands ... What a wonderful way for spring to bring in summer.
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odd molly

16 years 8 months ago

Thank You so much Wisteria

Thank You so much Wisteria for your most kind comments. When I hear the name Wistera Iam thinking of this lovely blue flowers that use to climb on our garden walls in my childhood garden. I loved to sit and watch its very beautiful colours and I thought it looked like a blue rain.. love. o molly
Seren

Seren

16 years 8 months ago

Dearest Molly

Again you write sublimely and fill my mind with images of love ... beautiful work hun ... thank you for sharing your wonderful talent with us ... kind regards love Jayne x x x
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lyz

16 years 8 months ago

Yes

well written and visual, I love your poem and new pic. Love the title too. Love Lyz. XX
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odd molly

16 years 8 months ago

Yes Lyz.. thunder is a

Yes Lyz.. thunder is a powerful thing and so is Spring.. Thank You for your kind comments and for visiting. Love o molly
O

orgami

16 years 8 months ago

twelve fourteen october 5 2009

just read your delightful poem dark and dancing like lightening on halos will o the wisp in the cold stones of October mists the edge of the knowns at the cedar rails at the moss fed trails amazing word groupings Thank you!!
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odd molly

16 years 8 months ago

Dear O. I loved that you

Dear O. I loved that you wrote the exact time and date when you read my poem. It made it feel kind of important and special. I also love the words you said .. ' like lightening on halos * I so love to dwell in that picture and some time ago I wrote a poem called Fotini which means halo in greece and was about dawn. Dawn and Spring is from the same family and is about new beginnings.. and that is life's never ending faith in us.. I think.. yes this poem is a bit dark I guess.. but it also has hope.. and Iam just rambling.. sorry... thank you again for you most beautiful comment. love. o molly
hugo la rosa

hugo la rosa

16 years 8 months ago

Dear O Molly:

Is this a formal diatribe against religious hypocrysy? If so, you have done it with style, and real glamour. You have impressed me again, dear O Molly. Sincerely, Hugo
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odd molly

16 years 8 months ago

Dear Hugo. I so love that

Dear Hugo. I so love that poetry can be read in so many ways. I love you thought about religious hyprocrysy .. I find it very interesting. Thank You so much for visiting and for you comments they always make me very happy. Love. o molly
WF

Worldwide Freeride

16 years 8 months ago

Brilliant sequel...

Molly the one I just read was very, very good but this is just jaw dropping! I get the real sense of a knight charging down from the storm clouds (brilliant cloud description by the way!) like bolt of lightning and all hell then ensues... with rolling thunder, lashing rain and ever growing griceous clouds, the egyptian horns resound in echo of that thunder a tropical tide from the heavens, with could sparking sunglow to light the land below, the birds migrate and await the spring dawn, the chilled grassy plains want the spring growths to arise once more... that is what they want... a budding seed within to grow into light and ignite the sun once more. The startling metaphor here Molly is incredible, from black cloak that flaps in the wind like ever growing clouds to the jack frost gallop of the stallions and geldings over the plains is for me some of the best things you have ever written, and belive me Molly that is saying something... an obvious choice for me to nominate for the spotlight... hope it lights your day today and everyday that follows... you deserve it with poetry like this! Just Awesome! Dale :)
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odd molly

16 years 8 months ago

Dear Dale You are so

Dear Dale You are so incredible beautiful! 'his black cloak that flaps in the wind like ever growing clouds* .. Your words to describe my little poem is so vivid and makes me smile so much that it almost hurts my cheeks. Your feedback is wonderful poetry my friend and how can I ever thank you for your wonderful wonderful support . Thank you from the bottom of my heart .. Much Love. o molly
WF

Worldwide Freeride

16 years 8 months ago

Inspired by you!

Well Molly my feedback is inspired by the very words you have written... because your poem is that good! I am so happy that you are smiling, it is always good to smile and you deserve to smile all the time! And that Molly is how you thank me... to make you smile is enough for me... the only other thing you can do to thank me is to keep writing such wonderful poems like this! I also thank you Molly... for bringing me here and being such a good friend, have the most fantastic weekend you could ever hope for and have the time of your life! With return smiles, Dale :)
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Dalton

16 years 8 months ago

A Word from Dalton

Loved this poem, at once a feeling of lost love then it opens up into the broader picture of the shaman maybe bound for the darkness of the unknopwn (a ritual sacrifice). But this is not so: in the catacombs you have been far too long amongst the dead and dreary eyes and open jaws you have seen the black birds of sorrow in the dark cold caves you have been resting. Very dark, very beautiful. Respects Dalton.
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odd molly

16 years 8 months ago

Dear Dalton.Thank You so

Dear Dalton. Thank You so much for visiting my page and for your comments. Yes this is dark but has light as well because with everyday and with every Spring comes a new beginning and that is one of the most wonderful things with life.. I think.. love. o molly
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Orphani

16 years 7 months ago

You have found your voice

You have found your voice but remember these dogs satisfaction and familiarity. Free the wolf.or cage the dog. you use a strong approach with the repitition of: and when you say I want you When you say it this gives a deep emotional enphases to the defining center of the poem and the shift to it's second nature of past life.Very well done. ........o
Nordic cloud

Nordic cloud

16 years 6 months ago

Oh Emperor

Oh Emperor butterfly-fivrel-sommerfugl, nattsverm. Oh Empress of the elements, your chrysalis on fire lights the depths of Winter's dark black despair with hope of Spring. Ann of Norway.
Esker

Esker

16 years 1 month ago

truly grateful

for this poem You write very beautifuly in descriptive imagination and I like the spacing and paragraph mixing the english and french Esker~