Tuesday, 21 July 2009

"Psyche's clear lake..."


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Psyche’s clear lake riverhood shining looking glass cold

Mirrored my life back up to me from the depths of that hollow bowl


Where the gulf sky is separated from the gulf by a thin blue line

In the hollow bowl her body makes intersected by mine


By biological predetermination the ancient Egyptian

Word for kiss was derived from the verb to eat


A memory that vibrates long after the string is plucked

Creating a note sustained by the reverberating of her body




Twilight: photo by Lucy in the Sky, 2007
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14 comments:

  1. TC21 July 2009 at 10:23

    Thanks once again to Lucy in the Sky of Locos por naufragar for sharing her stunning photos on this post and the one below, A Fairy Tale.

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  2. Anonymous21 July 2009 at 19:41

    Tom, it is a pleasure and an honour to colaborate with your delicious poems by providing the photographs. This time, tough, the beauty of your words do not need the picture at all. They take us to a dreamed-of scenery in our imagination.

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  3. Anonymous21 July 2009 at 19:56

    * though

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  4. TC21 July 2009 at 19:59

    Lucy,

    I appreciate your (rare) modesty, but must politely disagree: here, as in all my posts, I do hope (and believe) that the dialogue between image and word is everything. Neither side alone can do what the parts can do together, once their conversation begins. (I think of that old saying which will probably seem funny to you--"It takes two to tango".)

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  5. Anonymous21 July 2009 at 20:56

    :D Great phrase. I will leave modesty aside. Let's tango, then!

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  6. TC21 July 2009 at 22:23

    You can haunt any house by yourself
    Be a man or a mouse by yourself
    You can act like a king on a throne
    There are lots of things that you can do alone
    But it takes


    Two to Tango

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  7. human being22 July 2009 at 00:07

    what a pity i cannot see Lucy's photo here... to hear the dialog btween the image and the words...

    though the words and the way they gracefully dance can tell about the image too...

    so when we kiss, we want to eat... to make that thing our own... not to depart from it, eh?

    loved this cosmic kiss of yang and yin...

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  8. Mariana Soffer22 July 2009 at 02:14

    I can not see the picture either, maybe you can fix it.
    Anyway great text, I was thinking that if she bathed with milk they could perfectly give kissing a thing to eat name.

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  9. TC22 July 2009 at 03:37

    Thank you Mariana and human being.

    But I'm distressed to hear you're not seeing the picture. HB, I know you have problems with these things. But Mariana, it should be coming through to you in BA. I can see it, but if anyone else out there can't (or for that matter if you can), please do let me know. Thanks.

    M & HB: Think of a deep blue lake in the Andes at twilight with clouds looming overhead. yet with a quiet tranqulity of light ("Psyche's clear lake riverhood...") shining through all and illuminating everything.

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  10. Anonymous22 July 2009 at 06:56

    Wow, and those are two monsters of music to tango! Aretha and Ray, what a pleasure!
    Thank you, Tom.

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  11. human being22 July 2009 at 14:01

    Tom...
    thanks a lot for the exact description...
    this time i can see the pic...
    it's so celestial!

    Lucy...
    you are superb... all your photos really inspire lots of ideas and images...
    love the way you and Tom dance...
    :)

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  12. Melissa22 July 2009 at 16:16

    Gorgeous

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  13. Melissa22 July 2009 at 16:25

    clear water
    no front
    no back

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  14. Anonymous22 July 2009 at 23:21

    Thank you so much, human being. I am flattered.

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