“We let our eyes, our ears, our sense of touch illuminate ten seconds here, a minute there. And then it’s gone”–Birdie Jaworski
I cradled you today in space and time
where sunlight rides the surface of a lake,
beneath titanic nimbuses that take
the bluff, the mirrored monuments that climb
across the summer vineyards to the water.
There, I held your body in a light
that moved in waves across your skin like white
reflective fire. I cradled you, my daughter.
And tonight, before I finally fell asleep,
I dreamed I had a brilliant conversation
with a laughing echo on the waves
that knows your smile and sings a recitation
to the wind, a cryptic Gita deep
yet fleeting in the way that light behaves.
July 30, 2007 at 8:32 pm |
Like the way the light threads through this, making the “echo” into just another reflection.
Can I link this for the Ringing of the Bards? (It comes around my way once a month or so.) Details at my blog
July 30, 2007 at 8:39 pm |
Hi Tiel.
Thanks!
Sure thing on the link.
RM
July 30, 2007 at 10:43 pm |
Its a lovely companion piece for the paintings that follow. One of my favorites.
July 31, 2007 at 4:05 am |
We let our eyes, our ears, our sense of touch illuminate ten seconds here, a minute there. And then it’s gone.
August 11, 2007 at 8:11 pm |
This is visual bliss.
Beautiful, in the way that clenches the soul. *sniff*
August 12, 2007 at 3:01 am |
The carnival is up at http://knockingfrominside.blogspot.com/2007/08/ringing-of-bards-life-death-and-god.html
Thanks for your contribution!
August 12, 2007 at 3:22 am |
This is so beautiful. I especially liked the lines, “I dreamed I had a brilliant conversation with a laughing echo on the waves that knows your smile and sings a recitation
to the wind” – amazing.
August 12, 2007 at 2:09 pm |
“I held your body in a light
that moved in waves across your skin like white
reflective fire”
Beautiful image that appears to contain love and pain and an ethereal transcendence.
August 12, 2007 at 2:42 pm |
Heart stirring and tender and really lovely 🙂 Having a daughter, I know, but could not express it so beautifully. Bravo!