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And There were Three

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Originally conceived for a writing challenge inspired by the artwork of artist Morgan Reed. His piece is called Paradigm Shift. Feel free to look for it online. The themes in the poem are derived from my impressions of his work. Ultimately, I was not the challenge winner, but it was great fun to write and rewrite and rewrite.

https://morganreed553.com/artwork/3463649-Paradigm%20Shifts.html

Three faceless Misses amble amidst vagarious March rains under parasols / veiled in the anonymity of death/burial Three / shifting between tangible lives breathless bellies barely acclimated to first-life Brown girls who were shadows before second death Voiceless / ambassadors of disordered paradigms moved past dangerous minds weaponizing skin/genitals/unlikeness criminalizing the Creator who made all things well Unnoticed whispers/ persistently noiseless as in their lifetime holding umbrellas humbly against the falling judgments of the colour-blinded masses - Why rains of sticks/stones/saliva nooses to delete tar bodies Yet hapless muses stumbled onto canvas into dance/parlance where they will become unabandoned Savage Chronos buries memories in forgetting / turning them disremembered erased Still / Three impossible princesses forge through moss gray haze / dark puddles swallowing uneasily their backbreaking grief over race relations Daily / silently pissing peppers / hoisting parapluies raiment raking wet roads so saturated hems won't slap ankles Three from carnal cages flew haunting effigies rambling seeking their paradise visions Above Earth’s murky ways / umbrellas rise as masted ships sailing the slender triumvirate to Elsewhere's ardent sun cyan skies / immaculate time when fretful flesh is shed / purified souls will travel in light Three ancestral sisters became memory/myth/justice bursting through Chronos’ forgetful fog Lifeless / yet enduring / Three whispers: “Justice will rain where it had condemned the God of Creation is vengeful / He alone who’d seen us in a sightless world humanity’s cheap lenses / unprofitable paradigms beg amends.”

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CayCay Jennings

Date: 4/4/2025 11:14:00 AM

I'm impressed for many reasons. Are you familiar with the poetry form called Ekphrasis? Pls read about it because that's exactly what you successfully did in this write. If you were to paste the paintings above your write, each line would come to life for the reader. Unfortunately, Soup poems become old before their time and they're shifted to the dead zone, pretty much. But you can bring them back via contests that don't require new, or by revising them, reposting and deleting the old. CayCay

Tom Woody

Date: 12/24/2024 11:02:00 AM

It's quite obvious you know your stuff and have an excellent command of language. Welcome to PS!

Trina Layne
Date: 1/3/2025 5:15:00 PM

Your comments and welcome are appreciated. Happy 2025!