My stretch of sky
is clouds
dead dying
interstated
removed from the land
removed
from removal
we've been settled
let's feather at first light and fly
like arrows backward
into the bones
of old black fires
of life
and good death
when the night
still shattered
stars for kindling
and stories
were worth the burning.
For Brendan's prompt at Real Toads
17 comments:
This one pierces the heart with nostalgia for those grand, gothic nights again. Great stuff MZ.
Love these:
"let's feather at first light and fly
like arrows backward
into the bones
of old black fires"
"when the night
still shattered
... and stories
were worth the burning"
Oh, wow. I am blown away, especially by the lines Lilith quoted. Spectacular, Kelli.
Love how you paint with darkness. How else could you gaze at stars?
you have the grasslands of vast stories rooted here, MZ: stories worth burning for miles ~
Wow!I love those lines about firing arrows:
'into the bones
of old black fires
of life
and good death
when the night
still shattered
stars for kindling'.
and stories
were worth the burning.
when the night still shattered
stars for kindling and stories
were worth the burning
Love the spectacular word craft MZ!
Hank
Absolutely perfect, MZ. I love every detail - it is one to read many times, just to revel in the images you have created.
Yes, good times,the best--though some might not see it, and we might not have known it at the time.
go back, jack, do it again....
A Wow from me too. A superb write of which to savour again and again and again.
Kind regards
Anna :o]
let's feather at first light and fly
like arrows backward
into the bones
of old black fires
of life
and good death
when the night
still shattered
stars for kindling
and stories
were worth the burning.
The last five lines--especially--make my mouth gape open. I'm awestruck.
I hear a deep and rumbling call to the ancestors here. Beautiful.
Powerful stuff! So sad.
stars for kindling - this poem sparks with inspiration
So many stories could fit here. I grew up gothic. I lived dark stories.
Wonderfully primordial.
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