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WUNDER



Your eyes
rimmed with road
gleam pink with foreshortened
tommorrow

thumb crooked still on the wheel
the chipped ring shinning
lug nut bright

push the pedal
following the star till bright
stretchs
linear and flat

You are convex tumult
in braids
and the burled heel

staring down the aqualine
bone and wide brow
the smile lines are thunder voices
stretched on skins

laughing like glass
blown bells
behind the white plaza smile

I could sit across from you
forever never knowing what
was real

for all your myth
you hold me leaning in
and all I have to offer
is the mystery of it

our mouths are blind
echos discovering
depth

snow is finding its way
falling into focus
shattered like the hearts

— orgami, Feb 04, 2010

Critiques

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pleiades

16 years 4 months ago

i was on my way to review

i was on my way to review your last poem, and couldn't go past this. i was hooked from the opening line. your unique phrasing can often force the reader to REALLY read what's in front of them...and that phrasing is completely intoxicating...it's your voice. each stanza is rich in imagery...a complete scenario in a few short lines...i think that contributes to the potency of your work. laughing like glass blown bells...what a fantastic descriptive! for me, the first 6 stanzas set the scene; unique and image-laden, they led up to the crux of this write...the heart of it. from the seventh stanza, this kicks into the next gear. I could sit across from you forever never knowing what was real.......i find these words so beautiful, but with a slightly sad undertone of something...longing?...need? for all your myth you hold me leaning in and all I have to offer is the mystery of it [i could lay down and roll around in this stanza] our mouths are blind echos discovering depth snow is finding its way falling into focus shattered like the hearts......... beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. mr o...i have no more words. in admiration...again p.
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orgami

16 years 4 months ago

"longing~need"

never put these two together in thought link but thats exactly it long to be in the spell of those beautiful eyes large and richly expressive that playful mouth with the smile raising dimples need to have the arms soothing the touch like and is still as before and if its just elusive craft then Ive been dreaming for years a fool need to inhale warmth and perfume scent Ive tried to say goodbye and block unblock but nothing works im still trying though most of my stuff if not all is fiction but this woman isnt
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pint_a_stoli

16 years 4 months ago

orgami

Foreshortened tomorrow....Thumb crooked...Bright stretches...Aqualine bone....Plaza smile. I am so certain that what seems to be profoundly abstract when I first entertain untangling the mystery of your poems, becomes so painfully clear to me by the time I reach its end. You fabricate lines so well with the conglomerate of vocabulary that you have mastered so well that you have the power to manipulate your reader's sense of emotion. You are a masterful creator... PINT :)
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orgami

16 years 4 months ago

writing

I remember not being happy when I bought books and the writers first few long chapters were so hard to get through but its language and capicity fluidity like a speech impediment or an accent thick like anything new it just too me time to get the key phrasing speed meter etc of the flow ( "Go with the Flow" / Queens of the New Stone Age u tube broadcast yourself video ..) I write like this knowing that people will pick up on the majority of what it means and the human mind will smooth the patchs or dispatchs of abstract and incoherent thought pattern Like listening to rain patchs on the highway or a drum beat and cymbals I have this problem with bi polar and thoughts race off to the left and right in formations but I love words and language and fonts i just try to do it credit with my little attempts to dazzle
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magics02

16 years 4 months ago

The wonder of your wunder

Superb one here and I like it. Especially this line behind the white plaza smile Just wonder what hides behind all the whie plaza smiles in the world. Is it real the smile or is it false the smile? That is to wonder about the wunder. lol Have a great weekend Orgami. Mona
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orgami

16 years 4 months ago

smiles

well real or not real the smile is the presentation or Presenting as I like to think of it in forensic detailing of social anthropology and I never played poker or chess but know the basic concepts for all my not too well at fitting in in my head I love sitting in the middle of people fitting in at times
whitetea

whitetea

16 years 4 months ago

this is an incredibly

this is an incredibly intimate piece, will you share it who you wrote it for with them? beautifully crafted.
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orgami

16 years 4 months ago

this is a tumultous combination

I wrote this towards an ideal but its culled from the past interactions I would have to say Petra Timmerman from High school and then my first year foundation studies lunch break at the lunch room at Ontario College of Art is the aqualine nose and brow and braids she was very creative an artist and very social into the scene with bolero jacket and pork pie hat then in style of the eightes she was tall and thin read head with large blue eyes I cant remember the rings except to say that I dont get to talk to women who wear that kind of jewellry plaza smile Little debbie she works from blueprints in muskoka for a company building federal provincial million dollar projects lastly Kimberley with the heels the laugh and the leaning in i took a course rehab based outpatient at night anyway those were the most prolific influences that i can recall vividly and suprisingly I dont talk to or see anymore any of these women I actually sit with just a few downtown in my day although there are many who say hello and shake my hand etc but it is Whitetea who senses that yes the visual and intimacy is correct all the mentioned did have time to come and sit and talk about their own lives with me at various times and when Im clear and focused (mostly at Twiggs) then I am most approachable otherwise Im too vividly piled with output mode in thought i am in process of trying to get more medicated as the seriousness of hyper awareness is amping up my days beyond relief when I look back for calmness its those times that return Kimberley was the last one she was very attractive and cute and intelligent and yet there was no time for talking at this time not in the way that would be open so I just drew sketchs on the papers were were supposed to be doing therapy on and writing small short poems exhausted like now I feel bad that i cant explain this in short paragraphs

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