Welcome to Shards of Silver

Marianne Moore once defined 'poetry' as "Imaginary gardens with real toads in them". I found this such a striking definition of something that captures the values of poetry that I couldn't leave it alone.

I've been writing - attempting - poetry since I knew how to hold a pen(cil). Some poems I write I like, most I don't, but every now and then I feel compelled to write them down, like a flush of emotion that demands access to some sort of visible medium that can later be accessed and reconsidered. I thought, maybe, that sharing these poems could help me out a little. I welcome critiques, critical and constructive (though I do, of course reserve the right to ignore the sharper sides of people's tongues ;) ), and hope that in return for your help I can leave you with something better than sorry attempts at a craft which only a tiny few have ever really mastered.

Clear Skies~V

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Stay

Tear me open
             and from my abyss
             take my whole heart
It was yours anyways
             from the start


Rip off my wings
            cast me down from the sky
            kiss me hard
            drain me dry


Until every breath is you.


Let this be our battlefield
           the broken concourse
           of words we could not say

and stay,
             stay
                  from night into the day.

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