Sleep and the torment of undifferentiated events occurring and reoccurring
Crying out to the nursemaid that appears, an invented character –not an ally
Furiously I dig into depths of sediment made (up) of eons before and still to come
Anonymous things cascade as their very formation, epic some, insidious others
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Crying out to the nursemaid that appears an invented character, not –an ally
Sure that help must come, as sure as previous layers settled Once Upon a Time
Anonymous, things cascade as their very formation –epic, some insidious, others
Remaining unresolved, thus acting as antigen, both antagonist and protagonist
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Sure that help must come, as sure as previous layers once settled upon, a time
Repeating itself once again, yet the faces and objects take on different colors, shapes
Remaining unresolved thus acting as, antigen both antagonist/protagonist
Clambering to the ungraspable source, the surface –life support, of which there is none
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Repeating itself once again yet the faces… and objects take on different colors, shapes
What mystery this puzzle that takes itself so resolutely magnificent in its diffuse distillations
Clambering to the ungraspable, source the surface, life support of which there is –none
Better than waking (up) dreaming –only to recognize the once hidden throngs effervesced
Thank you to the Richmond (CA) Poet Laureates Daniel Ari, Rob Lipton, and Ciera Jevae-Gordon for the writing prompts this past month during National Poetry Month. 🙂
[This poem is a pantoum, “a Malay repeating form, written in quatrains, in which the second and fourth lines of each stanza become the first and third lines of the next one.” –from p. 195, The Poetry Dictionary by John Drury, ©1995 Story Press; Cincinnati, OH.]
Life Being Life 