memoria

[ACROB@T]

ebony smothered roses flooded into her baptism
where masked angels lay upon her lips
~blood shot skin lost to every whisper
as the ocean?s mirror seeps through~
~the cracks of her skin
breathless fable blinded in faithless rain
..her night washed over an echo
as gypsy suns drown under a frayed tide~
kissing the sand as they bleed far away
..summer lost in winter's eyes
parted within her sleeping waterfall~
where rain bled from an open wound~
borrowed dream~embroidered butterfly
untouchable silhouette~ocean collapsed lips
as her angels reached to kiss the sky
blindness twisted in the wind
as darkness died upon the light
where love lay upon every fear, and every touch
when her breath blew fire into his night

 

[ghetofabu]

this is similar to ebony rose. Is it about the same person? Did you take the other one and move stuff around and add to it?

 

[ACROB@T]

Its slight self-indulgence on my part..I wasn't comfortable with the two poems "smoke" and "ebony rose" being split as they were because essentially they were a composite and I feel it works better this way. The main theme was spread over both division and unity..how people, or a couple in this case contemplate..and come to terms with a forced separation..how they look deeper in themselves to look at what matters in life

as the ocean?s mirror seeps through~
~the cracks of her skin

and how the connection between them continues on afterwards

where love lay upon every fear, and every touch
when her breath blew fire into his night

I really didn't want the tone of the poem to rest too far towards the dark end of the scale but I didn't necessarily want to position myself behind rose-tinted glasses either..I don't necessarily think I struck the balance right in the end..I'm not a good translator for what I write either

 

[LarryMullen's POPAngel]

This is really beautiful, Paul. I can't pick out a favorite part, I love it all.