Climb The Heights

Climb The Heights

A Poem by Gabrielle

Climb The Heights

 


With the slow and steady sound
of hooves upon the cobblestone ground
Making swift entrances across
The barren pines and hillsides
all along the sky's upturned frown
She will be hanging loosely-- evil and proud
Without a need for feet to rest 
Down over the ceiling where she was found
Here we can feel less of what is real
Flowers in baskets are burning
burning brightly and yearning for feelings
the traveling air to bring them sleep
to the creator of heaven
in a mechanical world of God
Of machines and men...

These haunted things
sticks and stones break no bones
race for the last scrap 
and show no shadows
we're closing our windows
to the sleeping beauty
who cannot slay the beast
And the vaporous moon 
Is silently weeping for the light
Like the single red oak 
tree
where mountainside screams
it bloomed

quaking for a song to sing
the horse races the stars all night long
alone we shall have climbed
a road to home
the rock and then heavens
when this world was once
Kind of like a climb
and you could get to the top and look around 
 

 

 

 

© 2008 Gabrielle


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Gabrielle
Gabrielle

Shepherdstown, WV



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Hi all, I am Gabrielle. I'm a writer and artist. You may want to read my memoir, it's all about growing up with schizophrenia: http://www.lulu.com/shop/gabrielle-bg/many-voices/ebook/product-17413.. more..

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