Sean Kibble Poet Free verse

An Artist's visit

For Sara Jama's contest "Emotional Shrapnel"
05/10/2025

she appears spontaneously
courtesy asunder
an uninvited visitor
behind her a seeping of rust at the gates
an artist with barren hands
splashing scarlet all over the hessian
a lurid migration, primordial as fossils,
sketched by Selene’s soft summoning
into the earth’s belly, 
with feeble niggles,
surging to tremor crescendos
abrading,
            grinding, 
                         scraping
in the moulded wisdom of the womb
where a design is deferred
a cradle lies still….

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Sara Jama May 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM Congratulations on placing in my contest. You write is truly thought provoking. I enjoy poetry that takes time to seep in. Well crafted and well done. And I liked your use of Selene as a metaphor for the moon. Thank you for writing. Sean Kibble May 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM Thank you for my placement and for holding the contest. I am glad that you enjoyed the journey to discovery. GBY