Craig Norris

Jan 12, 2010 ⭐ View statistics (Premium feature)

The warm turns of riding

I feel your scent settling,
like droplets at leafpoint
sparkling.

Stillness becomes a heart,
blue white diamonds on floes
of starlight,
flashing sunrise
in almond shaped eyes.

You,
the alabaster and pearls of greeting,
the softness at the edge
in the warm turns of riding.

Where distance is a heartbeat,
and loud
a single eyelash,
opening
upon a pillow.

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Comments

Seren

16 years 3 months ago

brilliant write Craig but is

brilliant write Craig but is floes -flows or floss ?? or other I am tired cant think lol love and hugs Jayne x x

Ross Hamilton Hill

16 years 3 months ago

your poem

quite complex imagery, I think floes is correct as in ice floes. Yes a tender love poem,

Craig Norris

16 years 3 months ago

thanks Ross

yes, the blue white in the deep clean purity of ice, they are the floes laid down when the race of men were children. Craig

Seren

16 years 3 months ago

Thanks lol to you both hadnt

Thanks lol to you both hadnt heard that word before sorry craig, my ignorance thought it a typo Jayne-Chloe

Craig Norris

16 years 3 months ago

well Jayne Chloe

ice floes might soon be a thing of the past and you will not have to worry about them as you chart your course in the oceans of language. Glad you liked this, cheers to you and yours. Craig

odd molly

16 years 3 months ago

like one down in the ocean

like one down in the ocean of heaven we were the very breaths like wings above future open spaces and horizons amazed.. just totally beautiful and forever love and love o molly

Craig Norris

16 years 3 months ago

and horizons amazed

by landscapes of wonder and renewal. love and love Craig

Nicole Michaels

16 years 3 months ago

Mr. Down Under

Very nice effort. Particularly like the imagery and language in the last stanza. What kind of feedback are you open to?

Craig Norris

16 years 3 months ago

Hi Nicole

glad you enjoyed, feedback ? well, any is better than none, and considered is better than careless. cheers Craig

Nicole Michaels

16 years 3 months ago

Feedback

Nicole Michaels

16 years 3 months ago

Questions

I like the sounds and the mood of this poem, but I am having difficulty accessing it. 1) Is the contrast between the warmth of the title and the mostly cool tones in the body of the poem intentional? 2) I am reading the poem with the pic of a motorcyle adjacent, so I am reading the poem as if we are talking about a motorcyle ride. If that is the case, does the operator have a passenger?

Craig Norris

16 years 3 months ago

Hi Nicole

this is a poem written for my lover as she lay sleeping, the contrasts are quite intentional and reflect the landscape of intimacy. My motorcycle, though on this page, was not upon that horizon.

Kailashana

16 years 3 months ago

Craig, I am a fan, an

Craig, I am a fan, an observer of emotion & colour no matter what you write. I am curious as to Nichole's take on form & content. Love, Anna

Craig Norris

16 years 3 months ago

thank you Anna

for visiting and for your appreciation. cheers Craig

Worldwide Freeride

16 years 3 months ago

Golly Craig...

Craig now this is impressive indeed, I love imagery and here you display such a brilliant white, argent and sapphire architecture with smooth overtones and the curvature of the landscape you portray is simply brilliant in artistic flair. You have absorbed your surroundings add a superb mind's eye to it and placed in 3D for all to admire here. Impressive Mr Norris! :) Dale :)

Craig Norris

16 years 3 months ago

yes the landscape

is as much about texture as it is about colour, thanks for visiting Dale, you are most welcome here. cheers Craig