Thursday, November 24, 2016

Kerri Shying R - # 137 The Flower of Intention


The Flower of Intention

It’s the blossom in the tree
today    five-pointed fuzzy
star    waving
sunrise in

the fruitless flower on
a nameless tree   stood
outside     some
nine years    time enough

to grieve   leap
unintended gorges
dodge the stray
bullets

life lets fly
in seasons
telling decades
give or take
a blow

strung out
like beads
the blossoms whirl along the current
breeze   prophecy
of bloom

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    1. It is the tree outside my bedroom Efi. It really got me there today. xx

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  2. a v fine rhythm here

    particularly like

    the stray
    bullets

    life lets fly
    in seasons
    telling decades
    give or take
    a blow



    maybe this is an ideal length for a series maintaining a similar balance of abstract and concrete

    grief and leap !!

    not a bad title for a collection
    (or a firm of solicitors)?

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    1. I am getting out on my four wheels each day. This means I then sleep for hours but it makes better words. ANd thank you Kit.

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  3. Kerri, this is a wonderful poem. Such a rich conflation of the elemental and the emotional. I love the little pun at the end (prophesy of bloom!).

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    1. Magdalena this is wonderful and means a lot coming from you, I love your work. Thank you.

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  4. Dear Kerri, this is wonderful
    And so glad you're getting about
    I love your poems too
    Much more please.

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    1. Thank you Rob. I am getting about as much as I can and try and stop me!

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