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PAIN AND LONGING

PAIN AND LONGING 


Reluctant wood lay
marbled down His spine
as His passion extracted
His strength in diamond 
drops daggered 
my hip pain a micro
misplay of that which 
nailed His truth : 
Our bodies messages 
carrying might and light 

My cinnamon essence drifts 
in this dwelling damp
longing for a wooden cabin
where Baboon stared at
shadowed breasts
I waved his fascination 
through shower grate
unfastened, unhastened 
seeing Christ in wild eyes
Knysna forest an apt
calling backdrop 
mushroomed mossed 

Seven heart muscles
contract and expand in
tired colour to usher pain
rhyming longing piercing 
pine needles, boulders
in memory fall as
desert rain quenching 
knowing that its core 
lies in dark wells of
faraway hearing
tender beats stringing 
steel fibres for placid 
pearlescent Pleiadian
Home

So I tread on in this 
blustery city with patience 
longing, listless  
nurturing a curule crown
His hand piercings a faint 
ring of thorn shadows on
my open Sekhem palms
questing all questioning pain
into microscopic spheres 
under veined mottled lids

Baboon, forest, longing
sleep, pain, bougainvillea 
threadbare child hiding one
egg at Spaza shop
all but passing fleeting 
frames on this eternal 
faded tapestry 

I stitch tranquility as lacy 
pagoda overlay



©GhairoDanielsPoetry&
Song2017




Copyright © | Year Posted 2024




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Date: 6/17/2024 7:47:00 AM
“I stitch tranquility as lacy pagoda overlay” what a line to end this with! Your poems are always soulful and so very well written and delivered! I love so many lines in this and its so good to read you after such a long time! I especially love “ So I tread on in this blustery city as patience, pain, longing nurture a curule crown His hand piercings a faint ring of thorn shadows on my open Sekhem palms” your way with phrasing things! Is beyond impeccable! Pleasure reading! Sending you light
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