Clear the River
You want a method
to keep you on course.
Let hope go, I advise.
A carnival ride for all.
The world turns upside down
& everyone surrenders.
Fly into jagged rocks.
Break ideas into driftwood.
No one goes to hell.
Fog is your dance partner.
You are not choking on lies.
You are not at war.
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‘You want a method
to keep you on course.
Let hope go, I advise.’
Brilliant, nailed it!
Let’s surrender to being spun around and losing our bearings
Exactly!
Love this line.
“Break ideas into driftwood.”
Each tercet
Bobbing in the stream
found.
“Break ideas into driftwood.”
tercet … isn’t that French for a news boy hat?
She was a journalist …..lol……
I used to call them tryptics and found out that was wrong …..lol
That opening stanza packs a punch! I love this one!
It’s a poem about peace but get you.
Whoops, made this comment on the wrong post. Thanks H.A.!
*too casually overlooks
all
that
pollution.
🙁
too flimsy for me. but really good try.
Be here now
Wow! A different kind of poem from you—lyric rather than narrative, with lots of associative leaps that put us through our paces.
This just came out.
Isn’t that fun when it happens!
I really like this!
Second stanza hit me hard.
This is dizzying, Linda! Very nice.
You won’t fall out, though you’ll feel like you will. The spinning makes you dizzy and keeps you in.
Some time let’s watched the Miyasaki film Spirited Away. Your beautiful poem to grant permissions and render peace reminds of an amazing scene there.
Love; “A carnival ride for all./The world turns upside down
& everyone surrenders.” and “Fog is your dance partner.”
And this goes up on the Read Everyday Board:
“Break ideas into driftwood.”
Interesting how different lines in this poem “speak” differently to your fellow poets.
For me, it’s your final stanza. The fog is your dance partner??? You hold poetry genius in your heart.
Thank you for sharing this.
“Fog is your dance partner.”
Thank goodness.