Lightbender

Just Playing with light, words and time

__Lightbender__

 

There’s a place

Down yon

where lights fade

to dawn

in those shades

sights drawn

Heart Beats play

my throng

Palpitate

my longs

Casts cascade

My song

 

And the chains

Of their reins

And the pain

Of their feign

and constrain

Of their vain

to tear stains

won’t remain

 

In this place

the plea

Resonates

to the

hollow space;

that screams

hungers aches

of need

for this grace

I’ll bleed

To etch trace

Sights seen

 

Bend dark hues

To sky views

Black and blue

Blush suffuse

Shade refuse

bright imbues

dash abuse

to bemuse

 

in this space you will find me

Reviews

[Linda Marie Van Tassell]

I think we are all lightbenders. We have to be. Otherwise, I don't know how we'd survive. The hard knocks that knock us down would keep us down if we didn't get up. The darkness would impale us with its hopelessness if we didn't search for the light. We must shape shift the darkness into light. Heck! We are the light! This is well written, Robert. :-)

[Robert Trakofler (Bad Bunny)]

I have already bent a few times to your light Linda:)

[Linda Marie Van Tassell]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[Mrudula Rani]

I see you in your alliterations, in your perceptions and most of all in your opulent originality and benevolence. It is always a joy to see you, Robert. And these bewitchingly confected stanzas are an example of your sophistication.

[Robert Trakofler (Bad Bunny)]

As I peruse the poetry of my beloved friends in here and on the pages pieces of them become my frame and my frame becomes more gilded and so do the sketches that i fill them with... an evolution of a light bender

[Ted Kniffen]

Bend more light my friend, you do it well. There is definitely a great rhythm to this piece ... a musicality if you will that 'resonates to the hollow space' and taps into the soul.

Well written friend.

[Robert Trakofler (Bad Bunny)]

Thanks ted I actually like the tone of this tune for once:/

[barleygirl]

The coincidence: I click on this, to read it for the first time this morning, while "Tangled up in Blue" by Bob Dylan is streaming. I about had an orgasm when I got to your black-and-blue ending. This is lightyears beyond anything I've read of yours. This is truly inspired. I love this poem & will read it more. I am fascinated with the difference in how a person experiences light in the country, as compared to light in the city -- vastly different! I totally get the interplay of light & feeling as tho surrounded by a teeming city yet also with a melancholy aloneness that isn't altogether unwelcome. So many more subtleties, but I'll leave it here. This is awesome writing! (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

[Robert Trakofler (Bad Bunny)]

umm... WOW! I just had a flash recall of last nights dream I had gone to a local market to buy a few cans of white beans before coming home (< true) but i dreamt as I was unpacking my bag at the counter one of the cans had a homemade paper label on it that read "Breast Milk" after having read it I was thinking this wasn't for me that it would be wrong to partake in this

[barleygirl]

I miss having such vivid dreams! Great share!

[Stella Armour]

"Lightbender " i had to google it lol
Yes i see now how we all have to learn this craft to survive and distract the darkness from our souls...

Stay in the brightness my friend , i wouldn't want you getting lost..

[Robert Trakofler (Bad Bunny)]

I have so many beacons out there for the times when I get lost in the dark:)

[Stella Armour]

Good ..... keep them burning

[Robert Trakofler (Bad Bunny)]

well... keep burning your one of them;)

[Stella Armour]

♥ .................. ♥

[emmajoy]

' .. Blush suffuse - Shade refuse - bright imbues - dash abuse - to bemuse .. .. .. in this space you will find me'

As ever you create another world of words for readers to adventure, Robert! Aren't we all Lightbenders every time we in- or exhale. We walk and lie in a self encasing ligh, creating our own dark shadows even though existing in individual auras? Your writing encapsulate what i mean, the pouring of meanings, twisting, turning and all.. charging up our own power, id only to store it. To fight or love another day... perhaps?

[Robert Trakofler (Bad Bunny)]

I always think of you as a channeler when I read you its like someone giving me definitions to clouds. I am astonished at your review not just for the understanding of it but the fact that you quoted parts of the original poem before i edited it:) and lastly I wrote this after remarking to Chris I needed to write about the glitter and storing up those batteries:) you never seem to stop amazing me Emmy!

[emmajoy]

Robert, when reviewing I try to reach under the words, to understand as much as I can. By that I mean the more complex or long or 'different'. Writers have to slave for their words, in my mind it's insulting to just say, 'Nice, enjoyed.' When the language is put in certain ways, it;s like stripping off layers one by one.. but sometimes, just sometimes.. there's more and if on the same plain.. the answer is there for the seeing. Sorry, long-winded response but as full as i can 'say'. :)

[Eilis]

The last two lines ring. Determination to live among the light things regardless of the dark that tries to close in around us.

It’s an excellent echo. The music of that can keep you cycling back to the light for sure. It does feel very musical. The rhymes bouncing off of one another and circling around to close the light around the dark.

Light warriors need a theme to lead the charge. A good starting place here. The rhythm of the words is infectious.

[Robert Trakofler (Bad Bunny)]

the starter image was yet another of kens pictures that he sent me and the signature was buzzing in my head i wrote a free flow after absorbing the image and then I cut it down to fit the structure of the melody:)

[Kelly Scheppers]

"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." Wasn't it Leonard Cohen that quoted that? It came to mind as soon as I started reading this.

Wow, Robert. Is that really you? It looks like you! You know what they say, "if it looks like a duck and it walks like a duck, it's a duck"! Great picture!

[Robert Trakofler (Bad Bunny)]

He was a very poetic lyricist Mr. Cohen. I actually wrote this to a rhythm that was bouncing in my head for days and had to clip a much larger poem to fit the signature

[kentuck14]

And it's a scientific fact that light bends as suggested by Einstein. But I must say Bunny, he would never have understood it in the way you put it in this piece!!! And, I do like that picture of a real live lightbender! All the best my Pittsburgh friend.
T

[Robert Trakofler (Bad Bunny)]

I have been on a light bender these past few days lots of shade has been penetrating my horizon lately:) wish I could embed this song to the poem I like the melody