Three poems for day five

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"To the unutterable"
"Life, a cyclical anchor" &
"Lovestone"
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original poetry

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To the unutterable

My dark choice – this is
A dedication made repeatedly,
Serenity – this is the brunt
Of my sacred devotion.

My dark love – this is
A thunderous voyage, a
Vivid hallucination of heaven,
My lofty devotion.

Darkness that chooses me,
A blinding blackness in the soul
Of the universe that births
Me into a cursed devotion.

Darkness which ever loves me,
Phoenix of my conveyance
Tension – the metamorphosis
Of my devotion sanctified.

My dark devotion – to the ineffable.
It is my wrangled unfoldment,
It is my judicious ecstasy.
Serenity, my black love, my wholeness,
It is my heartflown symphony.

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Life, a cyclical anchor

Over & over again
I pay the price of
The glory of my fate,
Its ignominy & its gall,
Its dominating wingspan
Overshadowing the sun.

Over & over again
I reap the soft gestures
Between granular rows of eyes,
The misted fields pregnant
With love unmanifested.

Over & over again
I write songs & forget them,
Pen lines and erase myself
To the misery that stalks me
Through dimensions & people.

Over & over again
I bargain with physics &
Preach to receptive boulders,
Bestow presents upon thin beauties
& hurl myself off life's cliffs

To fall over
& over again
Into the waiting
Arms of love.

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Lovestone

I flow my soul into alabaster;
I flail with the weight of discovery.
Discovery that makes me a sculptor,
A sculptor of rivers in ink.

I ink into wretched peripheries
& restore their pellucid grace.
They are my families in ivory spells;
They are my splashes of chaotic oils.

I flow my mind into legacies
That live so long beyond my grasp,
They burst into a querulous flight.
They shudder in rhythms quixotic.

Quixotic my breast of beliefs
And rapid the waves that batter them 'bout,
Emphatic to shake my resolve:
Resolution long rooted in love that absolves.

I flow my heart into form;
I lovingly craft its pulse from this stone
Alabaster & limestone & quartz—
Stone poem that adventure through light me exhorts.

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Written & spoken
By @d-pend
3/11/18
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Images by

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1 — "Geometric abstract: Islands" by IsabelleMaria
2 — "After the rain" by S-t-r-a-n-g-e
3 — "Out of blur wheat" by S-t-r-a-n-g-e

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Notes

Throughout the course of this 100 days, I plan to employ many different techniques in writing poetry that I normally do not use much with the intention of broadening my writerly palette. I think the increased interaction with radically different styles of writing will help many of us begin to experiment and venture into methods of expression with which we are less comfortable. At times, we poets can tend to rest on our laurels, content with our slice of paradise. Onwards, and upwards, I say!

While writing these three poems during Day 5 of the challenge, I held the intention to experiment with a few different manners of employing repetition, which will be one topic of class for tomorrow (from 6 - 8 pm GMT in the Steemit School Live voice channel of the Steemit School Discord) I also focused on conveying strong emotion, passion, conviction—in contrast to many of my more detached, cerebral offerings. I hope you'll enjoy them, and perhaps listen to my recitation, if @dsound will work for you. The audio, I think, helps convey the feelings I am attempting to communicate.

I hope you'll pardon my lack of extensive reading notes here! I am still rather behind in getting everything for the challenge sorted. Please be patient, as I assure you all the winners of previous days will receive their rewards, and I will get back to the pattern of regular updates. By week two and three we will be running like a well-oiled machine! Many thanks to all participants and curators. Keep up the great work & strengthen your resolve daily with the certainty that we will emerge from these 100 days stronger as a poetic community as well as individually! Much love.

Wholeness,
@d-pend

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