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Tabula Rasa

by Laura Doom

Minutiae of time dissolve
in pools of rippled memory
listless temporalities
submerged by your disfigured smile
waving their good riddance
when we turn to trivialities

illustration

I turn a leaf
remind myself
that even a regressive state
though staring at an empty plate
is simply food for thoughtless others
in the mood to pull some teeth

immaterial

A slice of toast
that burns in celebration
murmurs raised in arbitrary patterns
taking shape and shedding weight
consumed by corporality I swallow
what remains of yesterday

10/04/2003

Posted on 10/04/2003
Copyright © 2024 Laura Doom

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Ashok Sharda on 10/05/03 at 10:43 AM

'even in chaotic space or deep within submerged emotion something simple feeds no matter', this sounds like a realization. A SCENE seen from a deeper layer in the middle of living yesterdays.

Posted by Max Bouillet on 10/06/03 at 10:44 PM

You can never have a clean slate.... too much gets soaked in.... too much baggage to carry around with you. The concept is as novel and as elusive as nirvana. Great verse that really aids in pointing that out.... at least to me.

Posted by Elizabeth Jill on 12/09/09 at 12:04 PM

it is no wonder, this wonder

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