NaPoWriMo #22 ekphrastic poem
And I stood there,
in the aisle of chipped yellow walls
rummaging through my thick skin,
about the last night.
the light of lovemaking,
the night of kisses and cigars,
how soft your body felt,
topaz like sunshine caressing my neck,
long afternoons of summer drinks and clouds tearing away,
something hung from the lampshades of my garden,
a memory, a perspiring flower of nostalgia.
I often walked like planets dancing on the earth,
thinking about you and your scars,
your love,
your shaded memory of vignette touch.
Everything is a dead-end, an endgame.
I always waited for you,
counting your time on my twenty fingers.
Envelopes of sequined eye gazing your arrival,
it happened in winters,
it happened in summers,
it happened again and again.
a chiseled knot of survival.
And now, I am done.
My body sweats like your skin did once,
chipping the bedsheets of nostalgia
Often I eat my own mind full of you,
trying to stick a mannequin inside my pharynx.
No, I do not wither away,
I am not a sunflower dying,
Ephemeral nights talk to me in a decent language,
slipping a thought of voice hidden somewhere.
You do not still evaporate from my orange lit mind,
you burn there, a lamp in a swamp,
feeding onto my naval of thousand skies.
I watch you there each day,
I do not speak.
I do not speak.
I sit and count you melting.
Wow. The imagery in this one’s outstanding!! Wow.
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It’s just so bleh.
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“… Ephemeral nights talk to me in a decent language, slipping a thought of voice hidden somewhere.” Wow. Just wow.
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This was just too simple but thank you for falling for it.🙏
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Supergood, D!
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🙏🙏
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Speaks so much to me….
“Often I eat my own mind full of you,
trying to stick a mannequin inside my pharynx.”
And i am spellbound reading this
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Hi thankyou Shefali.
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The power after which you repeat ‘I do not speak” makes this unbelievable. Just pure awesomeness.
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Thank you so much. Means a lot.
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Wow what a feeling, experience and imagery your brilliant lines invoke!
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Thankyou my dearest friend.:)
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The imagery in this poem is intensely powerful and emotionally gripping. 🙂
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How I cherish your words each time, Charlie.
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Your welcome. 🙂 Bless your heart friend. 🙂
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that is a great avenge – a beautiful end to a stellar poem
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Thank you So much.
This is a bit different I feel though.
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Yeah it is different form your usual writing but a great one indeed
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This poem makes me wish I was in love again!!
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You will be, surely.
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😊
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😍😍😍 am addicted to your poetry. It soothes my nerves. There is sense of calmness to your writing.
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Means a lot.
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A vivid and yet not so vivid description of “you”, one’s not sure on how to partake your poetic constructs when reading you, at least I am not. It makes me read again, here for example I feel the “you” is somehow part of the “I” .. the connection so strong that it dilutes the boundaries of perception. Like you say, maybe I should not speak, just read and read.
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Oh please you have the right to speak. My readers are everything. And I am glad you can dig up the theme behind this one.
I am truly thankful.
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I know I have the right, you are accomodating 🙂 but speaking only confines beauty, as you say yourself. I must watch the poem melt within, as I read.
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Yes yes! Watching it melting is so soothing for me. I hope you find it the same.:)
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Thankyou for your beautiful evocative poetry.
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I am honored.
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Your welcome.
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Beautiful!! really like this one
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Hey, thanks a lot.🙏
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Welcome!
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Very nice and exceptional with deep meaning
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Thanks!
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Oh this is amazing but all of your poetry is!
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Oh Stella, you are so kind.
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🙂 so are you!
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Means so much.
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The dichotomy of being in love and surrounded by its nostalgia.Beautiful words, Devika.
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