poem: Counterintuitive Art

poem: Counterintuitive Art

A Chapter by Marie Anzalone

Stars they tell me

shine brighter, when you’re so deep in love

like being at the bottom of that well

you can see Cassiopeia

at mid-day. Once you go to

some depths

you may just as good as admit

there will be no more surface times-

all is converted

to subterranean.

 

When I walk through forests,

it is the ground that speaks to me

leaves murmur the secrets

that the wind told them

bringing  tidings

of changes all the kingdom’s

best speechwriters

could never put back together again.

We are damned to destroy

the fragile, always

in our bustle of frenetics

that make us  modern, human.

 

Who knows, maybe if you and I get

just this little precious thing right

this time

the next time, we get to enjoy

it. Knowing you, knowing

that rivers flow also

through your heart and that

your hands have held dust

from comets; how, I ask is it possible

to not want to explore

forests and rivers

with you for the rest

of this motion extended exam?

 

My love, I will say, twenty years

from yesterday, tell me of

the starlight you see

from where you are, and I will

describe to you

what things look like

from the world’s

deepest wells- and we can

hold fragile things between us

shelter them from winds-

if only we can learn the 

counter-intuitive art

of not running from the obvious.



© 2015 Marie Anzalone


Author's Note

Marie Anzalone
la version en Espanol aqui:

http://www.writerscafe.org/writing/zorra_encantada/1530299/

My Review

Would you like to review this Chapter?
Login | Register




Featured Review

There is such a beautiful longing here... walking together through this sweet mystery of living.. of loving... sharing our visions and experiences... every day... forever... How a heart should endlessly hunger for this kind of union... this fulfilling, wild, wondrous life... There is more.. so much more than two eyes can ever behold... oh, so much more...

Posted 8 Years Ago


2 of 2 people found this review constructive.

Marie Anzalone

8 Years Ago

You see this wisely, Craig. Through eyes that know what we are up against sometimes. Yes, I think in.. read more
An owl on the moon

8 Years Ago

Reading your thoughts and sensing the world awakening around us... and our hearts within as mother e.. read more



Reviews

This reminds me of one that I wrote, called The Earth in Times of War, in the relationship we have to the earth. A beautiful piece!! So many lovely moments it's hard to pick one that stands out. Lovely metaphors beautiful use of language. VERY well done!!!

Posted 8 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Stunning poetry.

Vibrant with romanticism and a thirst for life and living each day to the fullest.



Posted 8 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Marie Anzalone

8 Years Ago

Thank you for the review, rubie. It was much appreciated
There is such a beautiful longing here... walking together through this sweet mystery of living.. of loving... sharing our visions and experiences... every day... forever... How a heart should endlessly hunger for this kind of union... this fulfilling, wild, wondrous life... There is more.. so much more than two eyes can ever behold... oh, so much more...

Posted 8 Years Ago


2 of 2 people found this review constructive.

Marie Anzalone

8 Years Ago

You see this wisely, Craig. Through eyes that know what we are up against sometimes. Yes, I think in.. read more
An owl on the moon

8 Years Ago

Reading your thoughts and sensing the world awakening around us... and our hearts within as mother e.. read more
"Live each season as it passes; breath the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit and resign
yourself to the influence of the earth" Thoreau wrote. And I sense here that same close,
natural observation aligned with the ebb and flow of personal experience, counter to what
human intuition would lead us to expect. Gather the kingdoms of the world and all the kings
that rule them, and still love and the rule of love endures.

Wonderfully written dear friend....dana

Posted 8 Years Ago


2 of 2 people found this review constructive.

Marie Anzalone

8 Years Ago

Yes, dana, dear heart, I do beleive that love endures, it thrives, it is the only thing we take with.. read more
I love the phrase- counter-intuitive art of not running from the obvious. The images you paint in this poem are so filled with passion, starlight, depth, love. This is lovely!

Posted 8 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Marie Anzalone

8 Years Ago

Thank you, Mary. I have been dealing with the aftermath of meeting a true soul mate, and the ontl wa.. read more
Romantically moved...lovely way with words soulsister...100/100

Posted 8 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Marie Anzalone

8 Years Ago

Thank you very much for the read and write!
There is a feel of the roamntic, indeed the Romantic here, and a wonderful intertwining of the love of Nature and the nature of love its ownself. Finely crafted, winsome and winning stuff.

Posted 8 Years Ago


2 of 2 people found this review constructive.

Marie Anzalone

8 Years Ago

Thanks, kortas, for not giving up on me while I was voiceless. Yes, underneath the scientist, is a p.. read more
art is love and this love is beautiful enough to make my heart swell for probably the whole rest of the day . . . we will get it right before this revolution is done. We really will.

Posted 8 Years Ago


2 of 2 people found this review constructive.

Marie Anzalone

8 Years Ago

Yes, I believe that we will get it right, at that. I still hold out hope.

Share This
Email
Facebook
Twitter
Request Read Request
Add to Library My Library
Subscribe Subscribe


Stats

617 Views
8 Reviews
Rating
Added on May 6, 2015
Last Updated on August 2, 2015

Non-utilitarian Living


Author

Marie Anzalone
Marie Anzalone

Xecaracoj, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala



About
Bilingual (English and Spanish) poet, essayist, novelist, grant writer, editor, and technical writer working in Central America. "A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to ta.. more..

Writing

Related Writing

People who liked this story also liked..


[untitled] [untitled]

A Poem by Karen666