Friday, June 19, 2015

Ceri Naz writes




it's happening

i find myself at the harbor
seeking refuge from the crescent moon
my mind sauntering deeply to the ocean floor
heyday of whistling waves from morning to late noon

i am a believer
once a fortress and a storyteller
i am a thief of those captivating eyes
your whispers drowning me to sleepless nights
watching over the rodeo-Romeo
dreamboats and  footage inside the uncanny le chateau


i chaste the  avalanched of snafu
meander from the longing Northpole
two passengers encroaching the winding dreams
entwined souls’ Milky Way  to passionate pilgrims

2 comments:

  1. Contemporary sensibility tends to disparage the sing-songy nature of older poetries. But many poets have used off-rhymes or near-rhymes as a kind of halfway house between complete poetic freedom and the prison of reactionary tradition. Notice Ceri's skillful but unobtrusive use of the device in her opening quatrain (harbor-moon/floor-noon) and the couplets that complete the poem (believer/storyteller, eyes/nights, Romeo/chateau, snafu/Northpole, dreams/pilgrims).

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  2. I love the line, "sleepless nights/
    watching over the rodeo-Romeo/
    dreamboats."

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