New Tamlins - a spontaneous response to recycledfaery

[wytchcroft]

and when the words dry up
and we read each others empty spaces
we mumble inchoate in our native state
animals bellowing the wild landscape

is it retreat to fold back into our selves
where skin and bone flaps into leaf 
some crude and ancient magic
21 century Tamlins turned into a tree

speak with your fingers
sing out the wooden wonder
the rough bark
the curves and whorls of me
traced and known

through every transformation
fish or fowl or frog-like features
we strange new creatures
of the prehistoric future

insects scuttling
and the sound of the wind
as the day comes glistening
in the tropical rain

the damp earth listening

for our words are plain.

..........................................

 

Comments

[eila.livejournal.com]

Bravo! Bravisimo! Exquisite. ^_^

[wytchcroft.livejournal.com]

aaah!

*sighs wistfully mourning the loss of my lucky opera hat*

and THANKS:))

[stoshagownozad.livejournal.com]

Ah!!!

[wytchcroft.livejournal.com]

EEEEEEEEEEE!

:))

[sidherian.livejournal.com]

Beautiful.

[wytchcroft.livejournal.com]

glad you liked it:))

[mr-stapleton.livejournal.com]

wonderful! :)
thank you, my friend!

[wytchcroft.livejournal.com]

and thank you Sir!:))

[betsycontent.livejournal.com]

wow. i'm overwhelmed. i take that back, i'm absolutely perfectly whelmed. :))) love your "fragments." this is very publishable. :)

[wytchcroft.livejournal.com]

i'm the one who's overwhelmed! - thank you so much!!:)))

[leannecassie-27.livejournal.com]

i like the poem. very creative. :)

[wytchcroft.livejournal.com]

thanks! it was a fun thing to speed write, when i woke up today i'd forgotten i'd done it - lol!!:))

it's not poetry but then again that's kind of the point i guess:)

[alagbon.livejournal.com]

I like this, quite a lot.

[wytchcroft.livejournal.com]

Thanks!:))
LOL! hell even I'M starting to warm up to it now:))

i really wasn't convinced by it to tell the truth, but i guess the scribbler cannot always judge the scribbling!

[reginaclarejane.livejournal.com]

I love wytchcroft the poet... ;)
This is wonderful- and that middle stanza, and this line in particular... "the curves and whorls of me"- ack, that's gorgeous.
More poetry, please, sir...
<3

[wytchcroft.livejournal.com]

oh regina thank you:))
i'm glad you liked it!

to be honest, i've been very surprised by the encouraging response to this fragment.

[rebeccawilde.livejournal.com]

THIS IS SO COOL!

Yes, that is all I have to say!

*prints out*

:)

[wytchcroft.livejournal.com]

*bemused grin* well i'm certainly glad you liked it:))

[recycledfaery.livejournal.com]

wow. what a response. a beautiful piece of writing my friend.
and when the words dry up
and we read each others empty spaces
*memorizes* (Is that a word?)
is it retreat to fold back into our selves
*melts*
speak with your fingers? *smiley sigh*
prehistoric future? oh my
damp earth listening
for our words are plain
*hushed silence*

[recycledfaery.livejournal.com]

from your responses it looks like you weren't sure about this one. how funny that sometimes the writing we least feel comfortable with are the exact ones people like the most.

[wytchcroft.livejournal.com]

yes, and that's happening to me a lot these days - strange..

[wytchcroft.livejournal.com]

and of course, THANK YOU for reading and commenting!:)))

[wytchcroft.livejournal.com]

that's what happens when you write 'The words have dried up.' and then turn off the comments box!

it was a bit (ok, a LOT) presumptious of me i know, but...

and i am really glad you lked it:)))

[recycledfaery.livejournal.com]

LOLZ! I am glad to have caused this type of reaction. Maybe I should turn the comment box off more often. *grins*