Hi Marilyn,
Sounds like the kind of garden I could soar away in too. I love the cello
input here. It's a beautifully mellow sound. Did you have anything in A
minor in mind, Bach, Bocherinni or Bruch (all the Bs)? I like the poem very
much. Very evocative.
bw
James
>From: Marilyn Injeyan <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: New: Soar
>Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 02:15:31 EDT
>
> Soar
>
> Immersed in a subdued blaze
> and graced by earth-scented wind,
> I float above a watercolor road,
> watch magenta clouds melt
> trothed to twilight. Sun's last rays,
> an amber comb. Shadows crawl
> over parched bourbon-colored hills,
> trace and twine a net to catch night's
> pulse, skeined into stars' haloes.
> I shimmer from high to low.
>
> Caressed by a resined bow, a cello's
> voice in A minor invokes a dance,
> infiltrates my garden. In their fourth
> summer, trees yield tart-sweet apples.
> Beside a pond, a statue of Saint Francis,
> encircled by roses, a cracked ceramic
> feeder and stone-carved animals.
> Perched jays satiated with sunflower
> seeds are hoarse from jokes and gossip -
> a blue blizzard of muddled mutes.
> I veer, spiral from low to high.
>
> Day's disappointments washed away,
> I salve raw places with a prayer.
> The cello infuses my canvas
> primed in remembered promises,
> a maelstrom of undertones, stepped-on
> dreams, hard edges now scumbled into
> softness, black-boned sorrow,
> my sister-self, released. Brushed
> and streaked in sky's vibrant hues,
> I vault higher, ever higher.
>
>
> Marilyn Injeyan
> July 7, 2002
>
>
>
bw
James
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