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Rosetta Stone of You
by Rachelle HoweWhite noise; your tongue
dribbles down my drums as
you drag a sandpaper mouth across my crippled pride.
Yours holds strong: a fortress: a tower of never having to
lay it down.
Hands clasp over deafening ears; your voice
rings the bells in my cathedral mind.
Stoic, I eye the ten commandments of self-righteousness--
read your credence before offering to right the wrongs,
before throwing the tablets from the mountain of our discontent.
We were capsized and no ark to rescue the
one-two-species of our distrust; the ramble of
a love that speaks in
tongues; white noise and
ushered memories
of being anything being anyone being anywhere
but here.
01/15/2012 Author's Note: So it took me three tries to post this. I think it's a sign.
Posted on 01/15/2012
Copyright © 2024 Rachelle Howe
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Jody Pratt on 01/15/12 at 08:59 PM "before throwing the tablets from the mountain of our discontent" I love the imagery you've chosen here. |
| Posted by Gabriel Ricard on 01/16/12 at 12:10 AM A sign that it's awesome, maybe. |
| Posted by Mo Couts on 01/16/12 at 12:49 AM This is awesome. Languages are hard and rewarding to learn...so are people; I get the message loud and clear. |
| Posted by Lauren Singer on 01/16/12 at 02:04 AM while the first two stanzas set up a tone that introduce the makings of a beautiful piece, the last two stanzas blow the whole ship out of the water and leave us readers clinging to shrapnel. what a beaut. |
| Posted by Joe Cramer on 01/16/12 at 07:42 PM ... excellent..... |
| Posted by Laura Doom on 02/05/12 at 12:33 PM The geometry of relationships translated from matrix to metaphor--I could approach this from any angle and still it would defy literal interpretation...it's those grey areas that create the lines of graphic displacement
[rampant rambling beyond rescue] |
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