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Shimmer

sinisterVT's picture

Your outstretched hands reach towards the sun, from your island on the rocks
Eyes open wide looking outward through the storm, on the horizon
Hair shimmering in the wind like peaces of the night, the stars in your eyes.
Your face set to the west
Hands reaching to the sky
Legs running to freedom
You told me about the other side across the water
The sun cutting through the clouds
The shimmers on the water
And I believed
Only you
Only you can bring me back from the silence
Only you can bring me back from the dark
Like an angels hand, taking mine and saying
"It will all be alright"
Your words giving light to the darkness reveling the wrongs
too which I was blind
To see without you
To see what you can reveal with only a glance and a sigh
To see how beautiful you have become
So see your glimmering smile when I have nothing left in me but a silent shade
A soft embrace seems all I need
All I need to see you
When you are all that I need
Guidance is what you give
A clear path is what you set
Through the woods, a soft path is were I tread
Walking with you along side all the way

NonSequitur's picture

This is really...expansive.

Submitted by NonSequitur on May 25, 2008 - 16:34.

This is really...expansive. There are probably a lot of better words, but this one comes to mind.
It evokes a wide range of images.

sinisterVT's picture

thanks Its kind of jumpy,

Submitted by sinisterVT on May 25, 2008 - 20:26.

thanks Its kind of jumpy, but I like it

misilover's picture

Sometimes, your lack

Submitted by misilover on May 28, 2008 - 10:16.

Sometimes,
your lack of
punctuation
throws me.

sinisterVT's picture

Its been "punctualized" what

Submitted by sinisterVT on May 28, 2008 - 19:04.

Its been "punctualized" what part of it threw you?

misilover's picture

I associate punctuation with

Submitted by misilover on May 29, 2008 - 08:25.

I associate punctuation with order and thought, so the piece's lack of it gave it deeper, more passionate meaning. I see this as most music, less poem.
Or I could be making this up.

sinisterVT's picture

haha well i'm not sure if

Submitted by sinisterVT on May 29, 2008 - 15:45.

haha well i'm not sure if poetry needs to have order, some poetry should but not all, it all depends on writing style. I just use lines to express ideas and separations between them

so was it a good throw or a bad throw?

misilover's picture

It was a good throw, like a

Submitted by misilover on May 31, 2008 - 14:04.

It was a good throw,
like a wake up call;
not always good, but always informative.

sinisterVT's picture

I'll take it.

Submitted by sinisterVT on May 31, 2008 - 19:41.

I'll take it.

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