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internal windows
by Betania TeschHow long have these horizons been coming
with such fearful meetings of land and sky
that the trembling is visible to the naked eye
How long has the future been now
and its possibilities undone in phantasmal lucid dreams
as the present melted from the backdrop at my will
Somewhere between blink and see
Somewhere between inhale and exhale
there came this unexpected, unplanned, unnamed
circumstance made into awareness
through soft tapping on my internal windows
blending with the rain but present
there came this unwanted, unmanageable, unknown
fear made into desire
with an intense terror so lascivious
pouring from my eyelids.
This was not planned.
This is not wanted.
This is.
05/13/2003 Author's Note: No amount of astonishment dissolves reality.
Posted on 05/13/2003
Copyright © 2024 Betania Tesch
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Agnes Eva on 05/13/03 at 07:25 PM this is beautiful, has a zen still realization quality to it, as well as richly imaginative internal metaphoric views. |
| Posted by Ashok Sharda on 05/15/03 at 02:41 PM Somewhere in the space of time, 'there came this unexpected, unplanned, unnamed' WHAT IS. Unplanned because plans are made based on known and stored data's. Unexpected because this defied the law, though accidentally, but definitely not the effect of the law of accident,where two forces meet in the third in order for any thing to happen, and unnamed because unknown doesn't have a language. Known is always known and expressed in a known language. Unknown appears from the unknown in a state of languagelessness in the realm of amness. Beautiful Bethany. Lets the lights switch on. Its remote controlled by the thoughtlessness.All the best dear.
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| Posted by Glenn Currier on 05/25/03 at 03:53 AM Your poem breathes into the interstices where reality lies in wait for our awareness. Beatiful, Bethany. |
| Posted by Bob Arcania on 06/11/03 at 09:49 PM i'll just keep it simple and say 'damn beautiful', if you don't mind. |
| Posted by Rachelle Howe on 12/17/03 at 09:12 PM into the void, and out of the frying pan. this is positively awesome. it rings. |
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