I know I have not posted much in the past year. My mind is still out in never never land. However in Feb. I wrote a poem and submitted it to http://www.poetryfoundation.org/ for possible publishing in their magazine.
I just received my first rejection email. (It take 6 months to process). Is ok I found some mistakes I missed and then reworded it. Their rules state it has to be an unpublished poem. Every thing else I have written is published here so they are unacceptable. Today I am posting the submitted poem.
My eye is distracting but I can still read. The little floaters and cloudiness just break up the flow of the story...sigh... Enjoy the poem.
Power of the
Story…Lost
Through the
years by way of written
word…
Truth of history,
fiction of science,
and mystery,
all have cast their
images of
wisdom and beauty
upon my mind
Sadly….
The years of toil lays
its
burden upon my body…
Eyes fail even the clarity
of glass
and screen used upon
the written page
Gone is the
beauty in the
currents flowing from
images
soaring to the heights
of eagles, or
falling drenched in the
roar of a
maelstrom careening
through
canyon walls, of my
mind’s
eye
I find no beauty
in the
narration of prose that
drones upon
the ears with the
incessant hiss
of a whisk upon a drum
that lulls me to the
drowsiness of
inattention.
The power of
the story is
lost when, through
these
fog shrouded eyes,
I can no longer
read the images into my
mind
ccd
Feb 2015
I still read your poems and they give always a time thinking as I sit looking out the window.
ReplyDeleteThis poem is different than the others. Your poem cry with tears - it`s sad.
Chris I hope you are well.
From your friend in Denmark
I am healthy. Just missing the store and my customers. and of course my eyes are slowly getting worse but not yet to the point I need the cataract surgery. Trying to grow a small garden this summer onions green beans squash strawberries and watermelon it is a wait and see how it produces from the plants. I still go to the gym 3 days a week for a light work out. I get to fish 2 ponds in front of Kim's house . I just try to stay busy. I hope you and your family are doing well also. I often wonder how you are doing also.
DeleteWe also grow a garden buttttt lol it`s very hard cause our dog runs around and dig many places. This dog we have now is real a shepherd and runs very very fast. We don`t come out many places as we did before. But no complain we have it good. We shall be thankfull we live a place like this. Oh fishing yes, that we are missing. Tell me later about your garden, if it runs as you expect.
ReplyDeleteFrom your friend in Denmark