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Mosaic Musings...interactive poetry reviews _ ARCHIVES -> Chapbook Competitions _ SENILITY

Posted by: Psyche Jan 31 08, 10:23

SENILITY

Time stands still in your gaze:
you survive in a descending spiral,
searching for preterit instants
in mnemonic pathways.

Your eyes don’t see the world
but shadows.
Your mind transmutes love in phantoms
without farewells.

Dementia, like the blind worm,
slides through tunnels in live matter.
Is your yoke easy? Your burden, light?
You don’t answer now.
With a child’s rucksack on an old man’s loins,
packed with recondite images of yesterdays,
you seek an outlet to the sea.

Destiny is Amphitrite with a child in arms.
Goddess of the Ocean,
she breastfeeds creatures
adrift in embryonic waters.

Return to cool green depths!
You shall have peace.

By Psyche

Sylvia Maclagan, 2007.
© Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Posted by: Cleo_Serapis Jan 31 08, 10:54

Thank you for your entry into Odin's Opposition Sylvia!

Perhaps you'll rise up, drink from the Well of Wisdom and be crowned the 'bringer of victory'?

Best of luck in the battle!

~Mosaic Musings Staff

Posted by: Cleo_Serapis May 16 08, 06:29

Congratulations Sylvia on your Silver placement!

You have risen up, drank from the Well of Wisdom and have been crowned the ‘bringer of victory’!

Well done!

Posted by: Psyche May 16 08, 11:26

Oh my, what a nice surprise for my weekend! It's strange to re-read a poem written a couple of years ago. I keep wanting to make one little tweak, because I'm never ever satisfied with my stuff.

I'd like to pick that final 's' off 'yesterdays', but I suppose it's not allowed....

Anyway, thank you and cheers to all!!
Syl ***

Posted by: AMETHYST May 17 08, 18:15

Congratulations Sylvia, Well deserved!!! Keep bringing us wonderful poetry to enjoy!!! Hugs, Liz

Posted by: Psyche Jun 2 08, 07:24

A belated THANK YOU for your kind words, Liz!

Hugs, Syl ***