Windswept

d-pend (73) in poetry • 7 years ago (edited)

Windswept

original poetry

The wind's howl listens
To my thoughts—

It carries and scatters them
To the edge of sanity.

My mind is a windswept canvas.

My previous works, erased,
By primordial breath absorbed.

The vacuum removes me from myself
So I can stare through the nothingness
And see the illusion of my pride.

The empty vanity of survival
Is a tired chrone thinly smiling
At me across the campfire of achievement.

In my pallid hands, outstretched towards the flame
Can be discerned decisions ill and great:
The wrinkles as my sorrows shaped the same.

Still there lies a glint within the mother flesh's eyes
Which broth-like, warms the bones, renews,
And cobbles new my flesh disguise.

Placed in pyrostasis by hypnosis of her stare:
Wordless voice entoned by onrush
of the swift & fervent air.

Breath of sadness, breath of time,
Breath of aching life:

Breath that clears my cluttered thoughts,
Howling wind, elusive wife.

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@d-pend
12/13/17

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7 years ago by d-pend (73)

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dobartim (83) · 7 years ago

Breath of the wind, breathing fire in the lungs of the hero. We are treating our past with future mistakes - the heart is a butterfly in a restless silence.
Love for poetry treats deep emotions, the soul raises spirit in the color of fatal beauty - we live in words - Eellent - Amaying -Incredible @d-pend

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sameer62 (57) · 7 years ago

nice poetry writting in nature awesome.

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johnwjr7 (53) · 7 years ago

This is a new, but nice style of poetry that I have not seen. What's it called? I'm just learning about free verse, limericks and sonnets, but have not seen this style before.

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d-pend (73) · 7 years ago (edited)

Hi @johnwjr7, thanks for your question and comment! I don't have a name for this form. I occasionally use formal structures such as sonnets with alternating rhyme scheme in iambic pentameter so I think there is a bit of that flavor here, mixed with free verse.

I am a mainly self-taught writer/poet so I do a lot of experimenting and combining of forms and approaches as they strike my intuition. I don't really have much education there, for example to write sonnets I just read Will Shakespeare's approach and emulated it without studying other kinds of sonnets. Don't really know anything about limericks at the moment. I'm assuming free verse just means open-ended, which is probably what most of my stuff is.

Thanks again for reading my work!