Grey Water Thoughts
Grey water thoughts sigh inside me
turning blacker, bleaker...
Pouring out of the ocular doors of my mind
when the gray darkens to black despair.
How violent love.
How quiet kindness cuts me.
Draws apart the draperies of depression.
And shows the shallow low hung sun
shining thru the dust motes in the air,
thru the shrouded pain of hopeless hearts.
Grayed down dreams weighed heavy
like fragile poppies bent low,
bowing to the leaf and earth.
The stalks slouch shouldered
from heavy dewdrop tears once fog.
tumescent hope
muted
muted
colored down
by London gray water
water colored
an artist's gray wash
stealing splendor
thick slow thoughts
sing siren songs
Celtic songs of sorrow
spring has turned her head away
shunned
retreating
to long winter once again.
Kids chaotic violent energy
loud discordant noise
not of joy or exuberance
creating sharp jangling angles
in a mind crying for soft rounder corners
softly rounded like the shoulder of lost love
I want to pluck the purple branch of color
from the grape laurel outside my window
hoping the fragrance inhaled
will help color away the gray
Water droplets on my window
make a mosaic of the world outside ,
distort and obscure reality.
Distort and obscure reality,
like the gray light
in my mind.
Annie Miller Saturday March 14th 1998
Sent from my iPhone
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