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[To find you atop a petal]

To find you atop a petal,
suspended by fibers and veins
and lightness and color.
Oh, to see you so weightless
in such simplicity I would
pluck you from your perch
in the selfishness of always
and ask you for something
in my perpetual asking

- for words and words and words
and words that say more than
nothing, the ages of nothing -

It is the closedness of full hands
and an empty mouth.

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  • Lake Absence gold member
    October 17
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    Wow.

    This was very, very beautiful. I loved the last bit "It is the closedness of full hands
    and an empty mouth." I don't know, it was just very powerful for me. You painted such a lovely picture with your words, which is always a difficult task to achieve. Bravo!

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  • rhetorica gold member
    October 15

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    Such longing ambiguous beauty within these words.I saw a spider,then a bird,but reading deeper i saw a woman who is loved,but the lover doesn`t understand her at all.
    Your work inspires and humbles me.

    . Rewarded 4

  • Brian Balzer gold member
    September 26

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    I'm not sure what to say.

    You had me picturing a beautiful butterfly flittering above a flower then you went in another direction and lost me. Neat poem though.