Crucial Moves of Fantasy

By Turlough

Wed, 01 Sep 2021
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Sit back and watch the sea above

Where images of waves and whales and fish and ships

Collide and slide and get mixed up

Until it is a sea no more

But white contortions of the mind

As trains and planes and horses' manes

Twist and spout and curl and sprout.

A vision no one sees but me.

 

Grey and black and darker grey,

As far as my eye and I can see

A dismal roof hangs over me, protecting me, dejecting me.

The sky is crying, weeping floods of

Raindrops, teardrops, cats and dogs.

Roaring, pouring down to drown my spirit,

Make me shiver, make me frown,

Make me watch as nature blooms.

 

Some days there are no clouds at all.

A canvas robbed of lines and shade.

No view, no hue except for blue.

A redundant pallet craves to fill

The space between the Earth and space.

Where artist's brush can only add

A sun or moon, a bird or plane

To the vast display of nothing there.

 

I keep some clouds inside my head

To play with on some empty day,

Or hide in when my mind’s a storm

Of cyclones twisting through my brain.

I dance with clouds though no one knows

These partners grasping hold of me.

Their changing patterns changing moods.

Crucial moves of fantasy.

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Poem
Poetry in Commotion
Surreal
Fantasy
Nature
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)

Comments

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

Hi Turlough,

I often look at the sky and think of clouds as islands, I love your description, especially waves. It's desolate for the artist when there are no clouds at all...like you say, a redundant pallet craves to fill the space.

So much to think about in this poem, which I very much enjoyed reading.

Jenny.

 

Submitted by Turlough on

Good day Jenny.

Clouds are incredible things. I don't think that people look at them often enough. For me they have such a calming effect. A medium for isolated meditation as it's difficult to watch clouds and think of anything other than what we see there. I suppose it could go wrong should we see a big gas bill or a persistent double glazing salesmen in them but I think that's probably unlikely.

I enjoy looking at them from all angles. The chair outside my back door is my usual vantage point as from there I'm presented with a big sky, but also looking down on them from an aeroplane window or a hill or mountain top, especially when features of the land poke through them. That's when they look the most like a sea with the likes of church spires and tall trees forming the islands. Though I can understand how you see the clouds themselves as islands. We have no clouds this morning but when next we do I'll try to look at them from your perspective. 

Thank you once again for taking the time to read and comment. It's greatly appreciated.

Turlough

Turlough

Submitted by forest_for_ever on

Wonderderful rhythm.

 

Submitted by Turlough on

Thank you. I'm grateful that you took the time to read and comment.

Turlough

Turlough