The Favorites Project #171, #172, #173

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LadyofGaerdon

Published: Oct 18, 2012

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Feature #171

we are all of us artwe are all of us art
all colored
by our wills
and won'ts
shading our eyes
from sunrises
sighs and hopes
chiseled into our skins
we are gradients
from start to end
to new beginning
and then
we have penciled in
all the ever after
hanging paintings from the rafters
with chapters of artistic zen
we are each a calligraphic pen
our inks
have spanned the distance
we bemoan
we fill the skies and sea
with prose and poem
and fashion new designs
from cirrus borne
our very forms
are swirling paints
and ordered space
and twirling ornate bone
we are the details
we call our own
we make this canvas blank
our home
we are all of us art by gliitchlord

....we fill the skies and sea
with prose and poem
and fashion new designs
from cirrus borne....read more

Suggested by: LadyofGaerdon
Featured by:

LadyofGaerdon A-Rose-In-Misery
xMotherMoonx awholelotofflowers Raneva

Feature #172

Sky EyesDesert hands tell tales
of a hundred arid summers, but
you are no longer as cloudless as they
(there is a storm
creeping through blue, blue veins).
But tell the sky to keep her sorrow,
that grey cascade blurring against
eyelids and horizons;
and suppress her misbegotten
droplets, seeping into the sodden
ground underfoot—
for there is still sun in your sky eyes.

Sky Eyes by Concora

....there is a storm
creeping through blue, blue veins....read more

Suggested by: LadyofGaerdon
Featured by:
LadyofGaerdon Raneva
xMotherMoonx awholelotofflowers A-Rose-In-Misery

Feature #173

L'OMBRE I - SHADOW I (+ audio reading)

(English adaptation below) version audio ici
Pour Neura
L'ombre I
Quand vous verrais-je au sortir des songes et des tombes il ne reste que des lisières
Frangées d'or et d'herbe coupez vos désirs d'au-delà lorsque l'écume affolée efface la tempête et
Si vos yeux glacés sur mes mains stupéfaites j'aurai voulu vos chants sous des feux de
Tambours et l'ombre de vos danses enroulée sur mes cuisses un éclat de vermeil la
Ménade mâchant le coeur de nos combats des tonnes de serpents silencieux sur le sol et la crête
Des dunes rayée d'horizon morne votre bouche à la lune reste la nuit vacante et mes rêves
Blanchis l'automne est déjà là dans les pétales fauves et les pleurs oubliés
Frantz, octobre 2011
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For Neura
Shadow I
When will I s

L'OMBRE I - SHADOW I by Exnihilo-nihil

....If your frozen eyes found my stunned hands I would have wanted your songs under fires...read more

Suggested by: LadyofGaerdon
Featured by:
LadyofGaerdon Vigilo
xMotherMoonx Raneva A-Rose-In-Misery

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