- Non-Erotic Poetry
- Another Icarus?
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with colors spare, vivid and sure
on a thorned loom, its warp
weighted with
impossible dreams
roped in hemp,
fraying yet sturdy.
Weave your weft of aspirations
from spiderweb silk
reach higher, borne by air currents
skywards
with eagles and ospreys
until
feathers singed by wistfulness
you plunge
down
another Icarus
Laden with lacunae and paucities
with untouchable milestones
flagellant upon your own
blindness
Perfection is distant
too bright, soulless...
...tone deaf,
leaves you mute
But your weavings are too beautiful,
too warm,
throbbing
translucent with meaning
transcendent with insight
the imperfections left
barely visible
yet so you
full of hope
of yearning
of lust
indelible
burbling with need to share.
Leave gravity behind,
grasp eagles' wings and
soar!
- COMMENTS
greenmountaineerover 7 years agoNice to see a poem worked and re-worked, and resulting in an editor's choice, Mer. Well deserved.
