We came out of the sun like flares
burning out our own memory,
landing like witless baby birds
and handed a brick in the heart before we even knew.
There is the sun, our personal searchlight
calling us not to sell ourselves for nothing.
We played in traffic, drunk as monkeys,
carrying our Queen Boudica dolls for luck, dodging disaster.
Forever sneaks up, whistling our favorite song,
together with a creepy-crawly to keep us honest.
We have tried to express all of this, bright horses nickering
in the Earthbound Barn but meant for the roses, headlong, guided by the stars.
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for Word Garden Word List--Klara and the Sun
Music: Junior Brown Surf Medley
There is a sense of epic storytelling in this but also the gritty images of ‘drunk as monkeys’ - so many great images
ReplyDeleteWow. This is WONDERFUL to read! Coming out of the sn like flares, witless as baby birds - and that brick in the heart. Fantastic writing.
ReplyDeleteHa, this is Sherry, suddenly anonymous......
ReplyDeleteI can feel this one, Shay. One would never guess that it was composed using words from a wordlist! I especially like 'Forever sneaks up...." Yes, it sure does!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful. Love these lines:
ReplyDelete"We came out of the sun like flares"
"...drunk as monkeys,
carrying our Queen Boudica dolls for luck, dodging disaster."
"Forever sneaks up, whistling our favorite song"
Filiments of starlight galloping the fire. A keen fine power, those fire blooms. (I heard CSNY's "We Are Stardust" embering back of this.)
ReplyDeleteOpens strong and continues stronger, each line and phrase carrying its brick in the heart, but also its song sung because singing is the only medicine for what we have contracted in this ward called living. A perfectly crafted, cutting and cunning piece.
ReplyDeleteIntensely beautiful. As a description of life in this fast-paced, eternal-seeming but temporal world, none better, Shay. The mix of danger and innocence and brio comes through, and also the hope for something victorious in the end, "bright horses nickering/in the Earthbound Barn but meant for the roses, headlong, guided by the stars." That finale that awaits. (I hear echoes of Dylan Thomas in those brilliant closing lines.)
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's not meant to bring tears, but this did because I was needing fresh beauty for my poetry mind to sink its hungry teeth into. The first line of the poem right away just grabbed me, Shay, and the rest never let go.
ReplyDelete“We came out of the sun like flares,” Ohhhhh… Helz yeah. Great landing of Forever earthbound, feeding the roses with such light.
ReplyDeleteThere is so much to love in this. It's made me reflective. It makes me think of Dawn. She was such light. I find myself trying to find a spot where she left some for me.
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