precipice by Kathleen Wilsonwhy should the statue
look at its watch now
as if it had a premonition
I'm the protector
walking in sky I hold
you away from inevitable
carry you up stairs
with no destination
never down
while the statue waits
impatiently checking
the time
cling to me
let me keep you away
from what is to be
always to be
it falls incessantly
red rain
past is caught
in a downpour
I hold it back
future
is moons falling
full to new
we won't see them
I've caught you in
this meteor shower
of now
10/06/2009 Posted on 10/07/2009 Copyright © 2024 Kathleen Wilson
Member Comments on this Poem |
Posted by Gregory O'Neill on 10/07/09 at 06:31 AM It is one thing to write of a particular picture or some statue, and those are good ideas. It is far more glorious to carve and paint with words the very atmosphere and medium through which we look. I feel you have done that here. Beautiful. Thank you. |
Posted by Charlie Morgan on 10/07/09 at 01:54 PM ...kathabela, a crazy-wonderful write. i too love what you did with concepts: statue, watch, and you carrying whomever, an idea, an old granny, yesterday, ad infinitum. i was you doing all this. |
Posted by Kristina Woodhill on 10/07/09 at 04:32 PM The statue is such a clever contrast in this, and the checking of the time - ha! Your descriptions of the past, future, and now in the sky's natural events is so effective and impossible to avoid. Love it! Thank you. |
Posted by Paul Lastovica on 10/07/09 at 10:18 PM +favorites =) |
Posted by Ken Harnisch on 10/13/09 at 02:18 AM wondrous imagery, signifying things i see in my own head and are too dazzling for me to connect right now...so i read and ponder, which true poetry incites at its finest. |
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