Shadows of Dreams
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Silhouettes dance on the grass
Whispery and lissome,
Haunting the shadows of noon
With reminders of beauty
When we were struggling to write
That phrase, verse, haiku
Lovely words gripping hearts
With faith and hope and love
Kindness breathed on the soul
In poetry from personal thoughts
Details of all that we’ve known
Through light cresting the darkness
Inspired By A Translation Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Malabika Ray Choudhury
November 10, 2021
Inspired by the poem, Any Liquid Poured into a Vessel…
by Olzhas Suleimenov, a Russian poet
Any liquid,
poured into a vessel,
rushes to take that vessel’s form
but the word
entering the depths of the human soul
defines it
with its own form.
Night deforms darkness
with its motifs.
In every horse
there is a great horse.
Always,
everywhere –
any voice may exceed
the bounds of a terrible chorus.
By entering the world
we change the world.
It is a skin;
we are its skeleton.
My world,
flickering, coruscating,
like a cosmos,
assumes the shape of the WORD.
The smoke glitters.
The last book has been burnt.
Yet
eternal is the symbol above the ashes
of the letters,
over yurts,
over cooking stoves,
over SOUND that is warped
by the blueprint of ideas.
Copyright © Regina Mcintosh | Year Posted 2021
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