SLOW
Moisture always brings
vulnerability.
Sometimes I like to curl up
in soggy wet matchboxes.
Joy is found on thin layers.
Psychedelic colors on the
surface of a soap bubble on a sunny day.
The luster of a sliding beam
of light on a metal railing.
The tingling of shy wind
chimes.
Someone is always quietly
singing a lullaby under the lamp shade.
Someone always plays an
oriental flute in the Bonsai pots.
There are wafer thin musky
smells of adultery in long hotel corridors.
Six billion people are
exhaling their griefs and fears as we speak.
Can the earth below take the
weight of its compounded gravity?
Six billion people are
inhaling elevating waves of vibrations trying to reach cosmic super
consciousness.
Won't the clouds above get
tickled by its feather touch?
Children are narrating
stories through cup telephones.
While adults argue for hours
in verbosity without communicating anything.
Old people are taking out
their dentures and rolling their tongues.
To feel the hollow black
holes in their mouths.
Cats are taking naps under
the sun.
Dropping out of time's
anxiety ridden static charge.
A mother is experiencing
eternity.
Watching her new born sleep blissfully
lost in self abandonment.
We must slow down, slow down.
Slower still.
Until life reveals its
colored moth wings.
If only we could silence the
motormouth in our heads.
The vacant spaces in our
room's will tell us fables.
Someone is always calling us
far beyond
to journey on towards
everlasting light.
Hotel Corridor-- Auguste Chabaud
Thank you.
ReplyDeleteBrillant, masterful.This poem opened up my eyes to the world around me like nothing else before...
ReplyDeleteA striking piece of art.. Skilled observation is seen when we casually watch the scenes go by our eyes...
ReplyDeleteanother collage of entwined narratives!
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