Commentary and Philosophy Poetry posted January 11, 2017 Chapters: 1 2 -3- 4... 


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minimalist free verse

A chapter in the book Natural Light

Paper Trails

by estory

Calico patterns

Patterns of blossoms
Blossoms unfolding
Unfolding into colors

Trails of colors
Cut out of patterns
Lifting and escaping

Blossoms of colors
Colors unfolding into light
Light unfolding into clouds
Clouds unfolding into skies

Skies cut out of landscapes,
Lifting overhead,
Above the paper trails,
The paper trails of journeys

Journeys lost
In calico patterns
Calico patterns of fields
Fields of flowers
Flowers of petals
Petals of colors

Colors of lavender,
Lavender light
Lifting and escaping

Lavender light
Cut out of paper,
Cut out of trees

The leaves of trees
Unfolding into air
Air unfolding into light
Light unfolding into dreams

Blowing away in the wind


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This is a poem of transcendence, of forms and sensations bleeding into each other, of images connecting to each other to form a web of enveloping sensations. It is deliberately ambiguous, dreamlike, surreal, and ends up just floating away, evaporating like a dream. the music comes from the repetitions of words bleeding from line to line, and the alliterations linked together through the lines. I wanted to explore new ways of making music in language with this poem, moving beyond rhyme schemes and iambic pentameter into a free form, pinned together by minimalism. estory
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