Wednesday 22 September 2021

Shantha 11 April 16

move around wrong corners, take absurd turns;
flip flop;
these words  to my chagrin,  unruly children
not where it is meant to go...
silly words.....
in the shadow of the day, your fading smile;

butterflies wing across  meadows
write music...make music...listen up close...taste of
honey in the air,   sounds, tastes, sensations;

from a piece of wood, a  few strings attached;
springs enormous tenderness;
a butterfly stringing wooden instrument
butterfly  flapping...

a rose  bloomed into something else...
            exasperates  butterfly
it turns away... but the new flower holds a secret
only the right butterfly knows....
when that one comes there is no turning away...
unpredicatable  natures confound some;
but not the right one;
to recognise the real beauty of the moon, the secrets it spills
one needs moon like eyes;

in the corner of the town square....a thing  disappeared;
a familiar....i wanted to catch you before  you left.,
i fail
so i  dream of  a village on a mountain;
far away,   in a peninsula down below;
winds rustle ....in one of these
 places...a sleeper dreams, sharing in the  dream;
i dream

oceans float  as if they  were little children
indian, pacific, atlantic...
being  contained in one tidy basin
                even if it is as large as the sea, is not fun;
a craving for  freedom........
but the sky,  sky that extends beyond lines of infinity,   to move with
                                no restrictions...
     birds that do not  need licence to fly;

SHANTHA HULME 11April 2016. On G+

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