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NOBODY'S READING

NOBODY'S READING
Someone used these words at the end of their poem it made me write this right now:-

Nobody's reading
not this tome of words that flow
from brains that soak up sounds and meanings
every day,
they toil and boil the thoughts that singe the mind,
their unheard wisdom in disguise
through eyes of night
and daylight showers
dimmed,

skimmed from the cream of human kindness
swimming on the surface
of the globe,
in green dresses,
robes of silk and satin
slippery and sliding
down abysses deep and dark;

and yet they'ignite a spark of truth
for some,
when read at midnight by the candle
in our beds,
our heads inclined this way and that,
their knowledge taxed to breaking point
a fact that seams the sheets
about our beings when we're dead.

So what,
the lark she sings,
the mole he digs his den
deep down in loamy earth
no sight, his feet his guides
his nose his feelers stand the test of time
no tunnel is too long to reach the line of no return

we burn and at both ends
we spit a life
into the embers as others make amends
for strife and worry
seared from flesh and bone,
a home,
a house
with man
and mouse.

About This Poem

Style/Type: Free verse

Editing Stage: Editing - rough draft

About the Author

Region, Country: Oslo and Flatdal, Norway., NOR

Favorite Poets: Too daunting this.

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Comments

Nordic cloud

Nordic cloud

13 years 5 months ago

Merci Beaucoup Josef

I thought, after I had spilled these words out
like breathing,
almost without a breath they became visible
and told their own story,
that this was all right,
in fact good.

How strangely things crystallise in the mind
and come out whole, complete,
without anxiety or intervention of the guiding troubled ego,
they form like the multplicity of snowflakes,
each with their own message, floating,
turning about as if at random,
to land on terra firma
and set their seed.

LoveAnni

Ian.T

Ian.T

13 years 5 months ago

Ann

A great write and on a great theme hope there are some that will feel better for a read of this, Yours Ian.T

Nordic cloud

Nordic cloud

13 years 5 months ago

Mercy and here is Jess

I must go at once to see what you have written,
but in the meantime thanks,
if that's what I should say,
yes its magical and unfathomable....just as (without comparison!!)
Johan Sebastian Bach said of his music,:"Its just there, I only write it down:"

Skaal, Ann.

Tam the Chanter

Tam the Chanter

13 years 5 months ago

Mysterious Musical Maestros

Loved the poem, Anni, and that is unusual as I don't normally bother with unstructured poetry.
Quality all the way, with imagery that left me in no doubt as to your abilities. Very well done.

Is it true that Handel claimed copyrighr on all the music played on the barrel - organ and the hurdy - gurdie?
He claimed that it was all music by Handel (handle). Who threw that tomato??
Kindest Regards

Ian

Nordic cloud

Nordic cloud

13 years 5 months ago

It was a boomerang :)

It was a boomerang :)
or am I wrang
you jokers on my page
you shock the public stage.
Ann in the fern-like dendrites.

Candlewitch

Candlewitch

13 years 5 months ago

Dear Ann,

Oh my goodness... you have a bit of a dark side to you! Just a tiny bit. Very eloquent and full of imagery. I liked it very much. Especially these lines:

we burn and at both ends
we spit a life
into the embers as others make amends
for strife and worry
seared from flesh and bone,
a home,
a house
with man
and mouse.

Great language usage!

always, Cat

Nordic cloud

Nordic cloud

13 years 5 months ago

Oh Cat in the dark.

I couldn't have a light side if I didn't have a dark side too, Comedy and Tragedy are seen to be the two sides of all art, all life, all that exists in our conscious world, and the one without the other is but a pale flat-footed way of looking at things.

If we didn't have the dark, we wouldn't have anything to compare the light with would we. They are all part of the whole. We cannot hop through life on one foot, metaphorically speaking, we have to use both feet or we are lopsided

Thank you for your comment, yes this one surprised me too!!
Ann lookingatasnowyhillinsunrise agaisntthedarkfirs.

Geremia

Geremia

13 years 5 months ago

To my Anni

Death gives Life its meaning and value.

EXILE

I glide to a melody in minor key
and sing my melancholy
in lyrics that are mine alone

I strike like a blade of steel
deep into the heart
of humankind

I take the soul to a knowing
not pleasing to see
not easy to endure

but now I wander aimlessly
in places I have never been
wondering if the words I speak
are worth the telling

And so I wthdraw out of site
to save my dignty and pride
for who I seem to be
in my poetry..

read beyond the rhyme
to find
the rest of me.

Tu capisci, Anní, che questa è stata una delle ragioni per cui ho decso di ritrarmi a questo punto. Non mi devo spegare a nessuno. A che pro?

Longobardolino

Nordic cloud

Nordic cloud

13 years 5 months ago

Caro Longobardolino

Like a rosary,
we tell the beads,
each one a poem of life,
like seeds of truth,
their world is round,
and as we reach the end,
there is no end.

The brown wood warms,
as in our hands we fondle each polished ball,
its surface smiles,
its heart is strong,
its melody a song
like that of ever dripping rains,
travelling along the wires of communication.

They go,
we know not where they go,
they fall like snow,
so virgin white and pure,
to dissipate when heat gives change,
into another element,
in air,
where seemingly invisible,
they precipitate to fall anew.

A cycle round,
that never has a clasp,
long hours to spend,
we offer up each prayer,
and never find a termination;
like the serpent swallowing its tail,
round like this world, a globe,
so innocent, so blue,
a heaven on earth
like me and you.

Anni

Geremia

Geremia

13 years 5 months ago

Ho capito.

Ho capito.

CIRCOLI

Sento un fine presso me.
non so' spiegare te.
come un circolo di preghiere
si smette la cattena all'ultima.
così le foglie dall’ albero
e gli anni della vita.
poi si rincommincia tutta
per l'anima nel buio
smarrita...

Longobardolino

Nordic cloud

Nordic cloud

13 years 5 months ago

Takk io capito.

Takk io capito.
I shall send another on the stream instead of here Longobardolino mio. Anni

Esker

Esker

13 years 5 months ago

Greatness in flow

"Poetry like a breath"
fantastic
full of feeling
sight sound and depth

epic! Thank You Ann!

Nordic cloud

Nordic cloud

13 years 5 months ago

Thank you too Steven.

Coming from you
I breath well
even though the air is cold outside,
where you are writing
its always warm.

Thank you too Steven.