Beyond the window

Gold cherry
Poem of the week

By queen beatle

Mon, 06 Jan 2025
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9 comments
 

In the house of petrification

 

the air feels much the same

as it did in August

when it felt much the same

as it did in March.

 

The outer world

puffs breath on bare windows

to write its names.

 

Goose down plucked

from the god rays

combing over Nova Scotia

 

and, from desert hamsters

warm belly hairs

brushed off the lips

of their sandy burrows;

 

such nesting gifts travel

to swifts and martens

on the swirling wind.

 

Ants and honey bees congregate

to decorate eggs

on springy moss beds

where tardigrades make merry.

 

Within the waxed walls

light is the only thing living.

 

It browses barren shelves

 

contemplates the butterfly

embalmed in withered cobweb

 

and retreats unheeded

through the floor.

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Comments

Submitted by Ewan on

  Vivid, vaguely disturbing. This high-quality poem is our Pick of the Day.

Please share ABCTalers, if you like it too.

Author Page at the 'Zon
 

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

Very well deserved golden cherries - congratulations queen beatle!

 

Submitted by TJW on

This makes me want to ask you to invite me for a sleep-over.  Much obliged.

 

Submitted by Nolan on

Not famiiiar with the word "petrification", it is a noun derived from "petrify"? Yes, great poem, definetely worth cherries- AI could never do this,

See you  & Nolan

 

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

Brilliant. This is poetry at its best. 

Jenny.

 

Submitted by Caldwell on

Peculiar that it's both barren and yet busy with life, even if at some point light is the only thing living.

 

Submitted by Kris on

I'll 2nd Ewan's comment "Vivid, vaguely disturbing" + I'll add 'a deep insight in what lives,lived, is, was, can be & changes- feeling air & lightenlightenedvery cool beatle.....

 

Submitted by forest_for_ever on

I read on with admiration at the powerful imagery

 

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

This is our Poem of the Week - Congratulations!