Daphne Daffodil~

~for OT's Dreamscape contest

She took a misstep

her toes became a thousand branches of roots

seeking purple poppies in the deep mud

on his back, a landscape for an artist’s thorn dipped in ochre

under her ground a velvet display of ruby moss

breathing clouds upward through the trail of torn tendons

balloons to tether at the graceful bend of a wrist on display

in the glass structure of a blood tulip

 

How did the apple find her core

pierced with hungry bones

skeletal love against a splash of burning sky

my canvas over the side of a boat sailing the tall spires

of a city in motion

my picture in a window frame

washed away in pearl drops with the rain

down the side

of a leaning monument

 

Reborn amidst a rubble of pebbles

the princess picked the peas with care

round the maypole gray of a carousel elephant’s unmoving pain

disjointed by music

a teapot clown dipping bags of jasmine leaves

inside his brewing exaggerated smile

she slipped her brocade

her bra

under a neon bulb

where her bones illuminated flight

 

When the eyelids are peeled back

the brain’s press is onyx

and no scalpel

no nimble surgeon hands

could ever cut these dreams

from her lobes

for she is the detached conundrum

of a thousand philosophers

bending through eons

to discover

the fluid flex

of Daphne Daffodil

who strips

a thousand pupils from their base

her tips in iris gems

scattered at the altar

of another strobing night

a meter sideways

of Casino glare

where the ocean washes out the magik

each dawn

and everyone puts their eyes back in

their lies back in

and continue on . . . .

 

 

 

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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Author's Note

for my son's Dreamscape contest
http://www.writerscafe.org/contests/Dreamscape/14008/

Reviews

[Crowley]

I felt like I was reading a poem through a kaleidoscope, this was colorful and crystalline and just off center enough that it was fairy tale like in nature, the kind that seem so magical but at the core is this little ball of reality that causes an uneasiness....I am thinking that uneasiness is the truth. You never fail to impress.

[kmartell]

it's so good i wish i had written it.

i love the swell of it, the high pushed up fever and the letting go, apples and cores, and fluxes of discovered light. oh i really do like this.

[SilentVerses]

I do love your words and how you create the languid dance of imagery and beauty that lull each other into an entwining embrace of delectable enticement, aromas waft about the melodies you create as a paintbrush gently strokes the air with its presence creating hues of stunning images swirling in a surreal sensual and lithe beat.

[Matthew Kult]

Like sitting under the sun on a cool morning with a nice french vanilla bowl of ice cream dripping with Strawberry's and banana. Delicious.

Matthew

[Rikkevi Rue]

mm..stark perspective of biting realities but you place these fascinatingly tinted glasses on the reader first, like lenses filters that shift the colors and it isn't until the reader (me here-LOL) is well deep into the journey that the realization comes that each image is really the same...but the views are so brilliantly varied! And the mosaic doesn't quite seamlessly fit though all the pieces are observably a part of the same puzzle...how many times will i rebuild the puzzle and carry the image with me off into my day...Ah the sheer delectableness or your craft!

[The Rock And Roll Cowbo..]

When we get too lost in love we can tend to become to safe in our litle world and forget to grow as an individual.

[.......]

Wow profound really, I enjoyed this one.
This is quite the wonderful read.

[Ed Hart]

i breathe you in

[Brad]

the earth and our primal beginings...everything catches up

[ScaryTrees]

my thoughts follow the good mr crowley
no black and white dog dream here
instead
an explosion of color that transcends the thoughts
of a waking mind
dreamlike indeed

[Kerry O'Connor]

Oooh Lovely! A Daphne poem :)

I love the way you brought the mythological idea to the present day cityscape, really giving it a modern context. So many wonderful sights and sounds to roll around in.