The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poetry Break, 5/17/08

BlueIris

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Sat May-17-08 09:20 AM
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The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poetry Break, 5/17/08

"More Than Once"

In this tree there are no indications
Of the chosen. Only the shine and black
Where lightening struck, where I lean as if

Some answer has been given, and now my fingers
Move across the mark to learn the site
Where this will never happen again. And yet

This too is wrong; once started, the electric
Easily returns to the carved place. The wound
Wants more wound, until the vein that fire enters

Becomes what cannot hold, what is then destroyed,
Which looks again and again for more weather,
The random dust, the illumination of being

Used, and us trembling at the ruins,
At the remains of one who took on such light.

—Sophie Cabot Black

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BlueIris

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Sat May-17-08 03:26 PM
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1. Kick.

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BlueIris

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Sun May-18-08 07:42 AM
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2. I thought this would be one of my most popular posts ever. nt

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CaliforniaPeggy

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Sun May-18-08 09:14 AM
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3. My dear BlueIris...

This one is beautiful, but not easily gotten, I think...

I had to read it, concentrating, before the beauty came through, and with it, the meaning...

I'm still not sure what it means, exactly, but I do love the flow of the words!

Thank you...

:hug:

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BlueIris

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Sun May-18-08 09:15 AM
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4. Yes, Sophie Cabot Black is a little oblique, I think.

But that's why I like her.

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ThomCat

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Sun May-18-08 11:49 AM
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5. I don't know about this one.

It's like this one is saying, "the lightning would like to strike you twice, but once you've been lit up once you can no longer hold the lightning a second time. You're no longer worthy. It's your fault the lightning will never strike here again."

Okay, that's beautiful and metaphysical. But something about this poem just seems... off to me. :shrug:

I'll have to reread this one a few times to see why it irks me somehow.

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