Someone
squared the moon
diffusing
light intrinsic
most lunar
in its intimacy
in the way it
pulls the mind
unloads its light
and darkness
at your feet
and then
as sunlight does
falls warm
in knife blade rays
on forest floors
translucence
stirs the surface
so does the
surface stir
and draw you in
as clearings do
contains you
prisoner
of something basic
elemental
light-walled
tree-freighted
deep as ocean
part now
of its emerging
eco-system
change one square
centimetre
and you lose
all sense of all
that Rothko
gave the paint -
its strange
religious power.
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9 comments:
as sunlight does
falls warm
in knife blade rays
on forest floors
Fav lines, absolutely beautiful - great poem.
I love Rothko---you are right that there is strange, religious power in his work (his paint).
Lovely.
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I have always thought the moon much more exciting and beautiful than the sun Dave - your poem gets this across.
Huge Rothko fan Dave - wonderful!
Dave, I am going to have to investigate Rothko to see what I have missed!
"In knife blade rays" i like that one. Never thought of the suns rays as a knife blade :-).
Like the others, I was especially caught by the knife blade rays. They gave me an image of prison bars, so when you went on to posit a prisoner, I had a cell all ready for him.
Nearly there - thanks again to you all
To Old Geezer a warm welcome to the blog and many thanks for commenting. It is much appreciated.
I am intrigued that so many of you picked on the knife blade image. It was (I think!) the last t0 occur to me. But that's Rothko all over, it takes a while because he's digging deep.A word of warning though, to Mary and (I hope) others: he doesn't work to the full extent in reproduction; you have to stand in front of an original.
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