Moonscape
June 25, 2009 by hames-1977
Mystery unravels tonight,
strange a landscape-
since you left. The room is
a parched valley of sheets
as I lay naked, bathe
in the lunar light.
Sans the gravity
of your satellite. It orbits
without the ocean’s rage
of high tides luminating
passion, as I grope
within the walled corners
of the stark midnight.
Sadness falls
like rockets ebbing
the bed. Its trajectory
creating pockmarks
and craters
of a dormant volcano.
I tip-toed.
To our dreams-
pinnacled fortresses pierced
with shrapnels of regret.
Ripping pillows
until blood-tinged feathers
hover the vacuum,
shatter into belt
of asteroids and clods
of moondust.
I like the whimsical feel of imageries you created with your meticulously chosen words in this poem. You achieve to create the drama in a dream-like state bringing the poem’s sentiments forward.
The effecacy of this poem takes its strength from the enchanting elements of the night that you gathered like in a constellation to effectively make your readers feel everything said and more.
I wish I would have the time again like before to be sitted in the table to write poems, play around with words to create such an enchanting poetry like this.
I wish you well.
~ Jeques
hi Marvin!
“you made me ride, a rocket to the moon!”
“now, how do i? get back to earth?”- he he he he
jeques,
the nostalgia and the bitterness of loving someone who is not there anymore is like bitten by the shark’s teeth into your heart. i have tried to capture the intense feeling there is- to struggle with words embracing that moment.
thanks for your appreciation of this poetry. i just hope that one of these days, we, your readers, can once again read some of your poetry and learn from thereon.
best of times,
marvin
zen,
you’ve got a sense of humor, which is good.
okay i’ll make a poem about instructions on how to get back to earth safely.
cheers,
marvin
That final word “moondust” is such a powerful crumbling of dreams! Out of this world poem!
i’m back Marvin!
i will wait for that “a poem about instructions on how to get back to earth safely”
seriously he he he,
cheers!
zen
gemma,
i was actually thinking how to end this poem when i was doing it. i am drawn of making the asteroid as the shattered pieces of a meteor, or tears falling like meteor showers, but they lack such power. and the word moondust just popped out and it make this poem a little more dramatic.
thanks for such a keen observation. your works also never fail to amaze me.
best of times,
marvin
zen,
well, it would take me some time to bring you a poem on that? seriously.
hahahaha
cheers,
marvin
‘just wanted you to know i came back….and read all the answers to my comments here….i’m glad i am making you say “hahahaha”- he he he he
seriously, no matter how long it will take i will wait for that poem he he he..i’d be so honored he he he
cheers,
zen