poem by James G. Piatt

It all Happened On An Intangible Morning in the Middle Of Whispers

 

On an intangible morning

in the middle of whispers,

during the opera of

timelessness,

flames swept through

obscure metaphors

as I stood waiting for the earth

to slow down.

 

On the edge of an unthinking act

in the last chapter of the

operatic drama

of death and life,

and without thinking,

I extinguished a gleam, and

lofty thoughts started to burn

leaving gray ashes

of sculptured timelessness

as the curtain came down.

 

While I languished in a field

of nothingness,

where stars

pretended not to see me,

ravens made dark lists

of my thoughts.

 

And as the dark birds sipped

from the perfumed

scents of wilted altar flowers,

My mind, swimming in the shadows,

of the fragrances, saw

shadows turning into

whispers of ghosts moving,

like lost dreams across my mind.

poem by James G. Piatt

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