Monday, March 19, 2012

odyssey

days are different
now coffee
lasts
longer
and shadows all

day I weave
wishbones and
wait
all night they un-
ravel no

the line is not
long
nor the hours
nor this coffee
as I said just

so the loom
holds
up

this poem humbly offered up for OpenLinkNight at dVerse poets.

14 comments:

  1. ha, great line breaks along the way with this...i do love my coffee...weaving wishbones, i hope you get a few of them...the unraveling of them is so evocative...nice piece...see you at OLN here in a bit...

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  2. Amazing text. Thanks for sharing.

    Twitter: @luisullan

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  3. wow...i got lost between those line breaks and the deep thoughts and emotions that tumble from one to the next stanza...masterfully done angie....moved me..

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  4. ...oh and i mean lost in a good way..in a very good way actually..

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  5. beautiful, Angie. the breaks works so well here, ultimately holding the poem together--like the loom does. "so the loom / holds / up" -- and a nice response to Yeats' "the centre cannot hold."

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  6. Nice day of weaving wish bones and waiting ~

    Happy spring day ~

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  7. As others have said, the enjambment adds so much to this. I love the last stanza/

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  8. Like the images, like the structure, and the closing lines are glorious poetry.

    Great work here.

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  9. So delicate a verse, with meaning poignant as the line breaks.

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  10. You words fall out like pulsing harbour lights, beautiful Angie

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  11. Yes, the loom certainly holds up! Your middle name is Penelope, yes? Love this poem, Angie. Love to see you at dVerse more often..:))

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  12. I like coffee, drinking some now.

    And I guess the loom is working fine here too. holding up.

    Sparse, yet very full.

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  13. thank you dear poets for your beautiful attention and comments...some of them almost poetry themselves x

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