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 Jul 25 08, 11:49
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 Ornate Oracle  Posts: 9,372 Joined: 27-August 04 From: Bariloche, Argentine Patagonia Member No.: 78 Real Name: Sylvia Evelyn Maclagan Writer of: Poetry & Prose Referred By:David Ting  |
 THE PATRÓN Indigo evening at the estancia’s homestead: undulating shadows slink into alcoves, like black cats a-waiting the witching hour. Wives gossip round the whispering well in the pink-tiled patio; scent of magnolia from bygone romances softens raw realities. Feigning flippancy, the Patrón remarks that some of his sheepdogs are wolfish. They’re cast at night in the Río Negro… “With stones slung around their necks”. Lips moving suavely, pride leaps from his eyes to challenge stilled sounds, hushed songbirds. Hollow thoughts… I imagine a fingernail moon indifferently slicing the Austral night’s peace; feral forms bound in sackcloth shrouds, sinking under star-filled waters…muffled howls - perhaps a hound’s prayer for quick release. I shiver, reach for my shawl from an iron rack. Servants keep deferential silence; a couple of farmhands laugh out loud, flattering the boss. They’d been there… The Señora glides through a green door, like a phantom renouncing restive crowds. Her random gaze probes powers unseen. In dying light, I stride on ochre leaves in the outsize, imported park. Bands of parakeets shatter the violet hour with derisive screeches, but fail to trouble my soul. Wondrous birds whose names nobody taught me seek perches under menacing dark. Tucked tight between colonial bedposts, I stare with marble eyes at rusty rafters. Canine paws do macabre frolics on rails, before being gulped into density of night. In dreams, I dance with daunting specters. Men's words pierce my heart like nails. The atonement of dawn brings slumber and I do not hear the cock crow. By Psyche Patrón = boss, only out in the country (not 'patron'). Señora = The boss's wife, mistress of the farmstead. Copyright: Sylvia Grosso, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2008. ·······  ·······Mis temas favoritos
The Lord replied, my precious, precious child, I love you and I would never leave you. During your times of trial and suffering, when you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you. "There is no life higher than the grasstops Or the hearts of sheep, and the wind Pours by like destiny, bending Everything in one direction." Sylvia Plath, Crossing the Water, Wuthering Heights. Nominate a poem for the InterBoard Poetry Competition by taking into careful consideration those poems you feel would best represent Mosaic Musings. For details, click into the IBPC nomination forum. Did that poem just captivate you? Nominate it for the Faery award today! If perfection of form allured your muse, propose the Crown Jewels award. For more information, click here! MM Award Winner              |
  
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Jul 25 08, 12:10
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 Mosaic Master  Posts: 18,892 Joined: 1-August 03 From: Massachusetts Member No.: 2 Real Name: Lori Kanter Writer of: Poetry & Prose Referred By:Imhotep |
Thank you for your entry into Odin's Opposition!
 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 
······· ·······"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to." ~ J.R.R Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
Collaboration feeds innovation. In the spirit of workshopping, please revisit those threads you've critiqued to see if the author has incorporated your ideas, or requests further feedback from you. In addition, reciprocate with those who've responded to you in kind. "I believe it is the act of remembrance, long after our bones have turned to dust, to be the true essence of an afterlife." ~ Lorraine M. Kanter Nominate a poem for the InterBoard Poetry Competition by taking into careful consideration those poems you feel would best represent Mosaic Musings. For details, click into the IBPC nomination forum. Did that poem just captivate you? Nominate it for the Faery award today! If perfection of form allured your muse, propose the Crown Jewels award. For more information, click here!  "Worry looks around, Sorry looks back, Faith looks up." ~ Early detection can save your life.MM Award Winner  |
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Nov 1 08, 15:36
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Mosaic Master Posts: 18,892 Joined: 1-August 03 From: Massachusetts Member No.: 2 Real Name: Lori Kanter Writer of: Poetry & Prose Referred By:Imhotep |
Congratulations Sylvia on your Merit placement!
 You have risen up, drank from the Well of Wisdom and have been crowned the ‘bringer of victory’!   Well done! 
······· ·······"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to." ~ J.R.R Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
Collaboration feeds innovation. In the spirit of workshopping, please revisit those threads you've critiqued to see if the author has incorporated your ideas, or requests further feedback from you. In addition, reciprocate with those who've responded to you in kind. "I believe it is the act of remembrance, long after our bones have turned to dust, to be the true essence of an afterlife." ~ Lorraine M. Kanter Nominate a poem for the InterBoard Poetry Competition by taking into careful consideration those poems you feel would best represent Mosaic Musings. For details, click into the IBPC nomination forum. Did that poem just captivate you? Nominate it for the Faery award today! If perfection of form allured your muse, propose the Crown Jewels award. For more information, click here! "Worry looks around, Sorry looks back, Faith looks up." ~ Early detection can save your life.MM Award Winner |
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Nov 2 08, 11:17
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Ornate Oracle Posts: 9,372 Joined: 27-August 04 From: Bariloche, Argentine Patagonia Member No.: 78 Real Name: Sylvia Evelyn Maclagan Writer of: Poetry & Prose Referred By:David Ting |
Thank you, all! More wonderful news for a Spring Sunday....the sun is shining over here!
Hugs, Syl*** ······· ·······Mis temas favoritos
The Lord replied, my precious, precious child, I love you and I would never leave you. During your times of trial and suffering, when you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you. "There is no life higher than the grasstops Or the hearts of sheep, and the wind Pours by like destiny, bending Everything in one direction." Sylvia Plath, Crossing the Water, Wuthering Heights. Nominate a poem for the InterBoard Poetry Competition by taking into careful consideration those poems you feel would best represent Mosaic Musings. For details, click into the IBPC nomination forum. Did that poem just captivate you? Nominate it for the Faery award today! If perfection of form allured your muse, propose the Crown Jewels award. For more information, click here! MM Award Winner |
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