Radiant Smile

greet us
some everywhere

some upside down
tightened at the corners
for storm or foul
weather inside

the world changing
prepared for hail
locusts
loose change
that falls from the
fretted fabric of pocket
lend

hot is the day
so soon
the ice has fled

and smiles are loans
of the heart
forgiven in rain
soaked
downpours

— Esker, Apr 02, 2010

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Region, Country: north ontario, CAN

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Critiques

seabhac

16 years 2 months ago

Fretted fabric of pocket lend

I love that image He who has loaned too much. Your words are sensuous on the body of my mind...why the hell has no one else noticed???? That last verse and smiles are loans of the heart forgiven in rain soaked downpours scrumdeldilyumptious Seabhac

Esker

16 years 2 months ago

Are you an artist also?

I paint and sketch want to get back to it so much time now Its raining finally but the oustide chores some or most were attended too sitting listening to music on utube and writing the rain falling outside in the darkness dripping from the eve to the ground a story yet below the dreams of night beckoning Esker~

seabhac

16 years 2 months ago

Ah the pattern is clearer now

Yes I am a textile artist I see most of life as sensual and tactile, in colour or subtle muted tones....wool is my paint, my soul's expression but I have discovered how to speak words through poetry and love to merge both. Seabhac

magics02

16 years 2 months ago

Just wonderful words here

I just love this write and how are you doing, This was a very well thought out and distinct poem. Great one Happy Easter to you and the family Love,Mona Learn to live, learn to forgive. Life is too short.

Esker

16 years 2 months ago

Went well

a good moment was had my new meds my new sanity free from my long lost addictions calling though I shall not be played a fool to them Happy weekend remaining this eve with its rain is a blessing in peaceful tranquility and magic Esker~

Seren

16 years 2 months ago

Dear Steven

Those last lines are just brilliant .... beautifully done love JayCee x x x

Draki

16 years 2 months ago

the world changing prepared

the world changing prepared for hail locusts loose change that falls from the fretted fabric of pocket lend hot is the day so soon the ice has fled I love how you imply the end of the world with all these suggestions, and in a poem about smiles, and so - about masks. That's why they're 'forgiven in rain soaked downpours', because if the smiles are genuinely altruistic, then what's there to forgive? In a crisis, we don't care so much about the masks, because there's too much else to worry about. Interesting poem.

Esker

16 years 2 months ago

in crisis

I grew up with smiles learned to mask sometimes there are those who are freed to jump right in natural is the skin to help to move when all about is tragic sometimes its just an urge to get people directed I have seen this day to day and the sun shines on the rain falls the masks in their proper place deflect like safety glasses or hearing devices when the distractions become too loud we keep going Thank you