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Monday, April 18, 2011

For The Thief With Stormy Hair



In the Night Garden, between trailing vines,

Against a wall of brick--

Dark brick--

The color of an imperfectly healed wild heart,

Find the Thief With Stormy Hair.



I turn my hands, and dark orioles rise from my palms,

Into a sky of black--

Rich black--

Like the shirt she wears, then loses like a dream,

Offering me the stars, and her dusky kiss.



I want to climb the bricks like a Morning Glory,

Reach out and softly twine around her,

Bringing the rain every time we touch--

The orioles know,

My devotion is helpless, I go to her as if I were a spirit compelled--

I love her.

That is all anyone needs to know.

________

for STWIASD

photograph: Charlotte Gainsbourg

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31 comments:

  1. hedgewitchApril 18, 2011 at 9:30 PM

    Ah Shay. The orioles got me right away, and the vines and the Stormy Hair..I'm seeing aureoles of light around the half-healed hearts here, making them softly luminescent in the black of an otherwise common, dull night full of the forgotten, which these can never be. Just beautiful.

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  2. Sioux RoslawskiApril 18, 2011 at 9:58 PM

    The line about climbing up the brick like a Morning Glory, and when you "softly twine around her." What a gorgeous love poem...

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  3. LolamouseApril 18, 2011 at 10:08 PM

    I love "I want to climb the bricks like a Morning Glory" and "I turn my hands, and dark orioles rise from my palms." How do you come up with such spendiferous wordlings?!!

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  4. Sherry Blue SkyApril 18, 2011 at 10:27 PM

    "the color of an imperfectly healed wild heart" speaks to me, wild and imperfectly healed as my old thumper is........and the orioles rising from the hands is sheer genius. Wowzers, you are an amazement a day, kiddo. The best writing ever.Beautiful, and wild.

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  5. Hannah StephensonApril 18, 2011 at 10:56 PM

    She is unthinkably lovely (and weird, which is always good).

    Hope all is wonderful!!

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  6. HermanTurnipApril 18, 2011 at 11:00 PM

    The very *first* thing I thought of when I saw that pic was, "Geez, Chrissie Hynde is looking fantastic!"

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  7. Brian MillerApril 19, 2011 at 12:15 AM

    and that is all that really matters any way so...except the orioles...making them appear is a really cool trick...

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  8. LydiaApril 19, 2011 at 3:52 AM

    I want to climb the bricks like a Morning Glory ....what an image that creates. This is a luscious love poem.
    (She has stormy eyebrows too!)

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  9. LynnApril 19, 2011 at 9:00 AM

    Beautiful and kind of wistful.

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  10. DarylApril 19, 2011 at 10:52 AM

    Yes, that's all anyone needs to know.

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  11. SaraApril 19, 2011 at 4:40 PM

    Shay,

    Now this is what I call a LOVE poem. I loved the reference to the dark brick being "The color of an imperfectly healed wild heart." That's so beautiful and I can imagine that color.

    I also loved these lines,

    "I want to climb the bricks like a Morning Glory,
    Reach out and softly twine around her,
    Bringing the rain every time we touch--"

    They made me sigh with joy that someone can write about love this way:~)

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  12. AnonymousApril 19, 2011 at 7:04 PM

    Only the lover can see a beloved this way, so richly on the outside and so deeply on the inside. - Brendan

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  13. UnknownApril 19, 2011 at 7:57 PM

    this is really beautiful. i read it a couple of times, and each time the imagery grew stronger. very powerful and lovely.

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  14. UnknownApril 19, 2011 at 8:36 PM

    do the thing with birds again...
    again...

    this rocks so hard, Shay.

    Genius.

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  15. UnknownApril 19, 2011 at 9:19 PM

    Oh this post it really moved me and I love it I know these people in my heart and my life.

    I love you
    G

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  16. Maude LynnApril 19, 2011 at 9:34 PM

    This breathes. So, so beautiful.

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  17. PattiKenApril 19, 2011 at 10:31 PM

    This is so romantic. I love the imagery, especially the orioles, who know.

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  18. Jenne' R. Andrews April 20, 2011 at 3:55 AM

    Beautiful dark layers to this poem-- sinuous and sensual-- loving the orioles as well. Would appreciate your take on my latest-- xxxj

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  19. Ami MattisonApril 20, 2011 at 4:39 AM

    I love the Orioles too! And this: "I want to climb the bricks like a Morning Glory,/Reach out and softly twine around her."

    Also, I love Charlotte Gainsbourg and that's all anyone needs to know. ;)

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  20. moondustwriterApril 20, 2011 at 5:18 AM

    It is a wonderful love poem Shay
    glad to see that stars and kisses are being offered up...

    hugs from the Moon

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  21. Anita MagdalenaApril 20, 2011 at 7:43 AM

    Beautiful.

    Anita.

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  22. ShadowApril 20, 2011 at 9:26 AM

    sounds like you've been bewitched...

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  23. JinksyApril 20, 2011 at 9:39 AM

    a spirit compelled

    Aren't we all from time to time? :)

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  24. AnonymousApril 20, 2011 at 9:55 AM

    "I want to climb the bricks like a Morning Glory," what a beautiful picture...

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  25. patriciacaspersApril 20, 2011 at 12:41 PM

    I want to climb the bricks like a Morning Glory,

    Reach out and softly twine around her,

    Bringing the rain every time we touch--

    Incredible lines. Also, that imperfectly healed wild heart and the orioles, of course. Well, just everything.

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  26. UnknownApril 20, 2011 at 1:42 PM

    The heat and yearning are palpable.

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  27. Jannie FunsterApril 20, 2011 at 5:27 PM

    I want to climb the brick like morning glory too. And white star jasmine.

    xoxo

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  28. Dulçe ♥April 21, 2011 at 4:30 PM

    I want to climb the bricks like a Morning Glory... that is a line, too!

    Such passion is devoted here, Shay dear...
    Ah Love love love

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  29. AnonymousApril 21, 2011 at 10:37 PM

    beautiful from beginning to end... the love and desire sweet. ♥ dani

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  30. ellen abbottApril 23, 2011 at 9:55 AM

    woven words on the loom of your heart.

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  31. RiverApril 24, 2011 at 6:32 AM

    Beautiful!

    Oracle of the Feminine

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