Tarry (Day 28 of 100 -- Poetry challenge)
pushing down on the trees
snapping branches
alone
once part of a grove
All pieces are newly crafted and posted shortly after in adherence to the rules of the challenge. All the photos are mine unless otherwise stated.
Entry for Day 28 of 100 Days of Poetry Challenge by @d-pend.
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Remember how we spoke of using words you've used in recent poems, and I said that the poems should stand eternal on their own?
That is true, but when reading a poem in context, if you can use it to add layers, that is an opportunity that should not be missed.
And this piece? Well, let's look at it alongside salt-grave and Until I See.... And they paint a spectrum. I know there are at least two people spoken of in these pieces, but I'm going to look at it as if they were the same.
We are not simple people. "I should find another shore" is not contradicted by you feeling alone where you once belonged. It is not contradicted by speaking of unearnest apologies. It's not only that it is merely complementary, that each poem paints a bigger picture on why one should find another shore (because they feel left behind and that the apologies they get are not only fake, but belie hidden poisonous attitude.
No, it is because even if we have left, and especially when we speak of "should," we also sometimes try to make things better. We still rail at the injustice of it all. We mourn the loss of what was or could've been just as much as we look at it and with a heavy heart think of needing to set out.
This piece is of a much wider scope though. There's a reason that "The last of their kind" is a common motif in science-fiction stories. Because it's something we all fear.
To be uprooted from our place of origin, from our family, from our people.
And as you grow older, you can even be uprooted through time. Simply by outliving the people, and the world, where you used to dwell.
And that other kind of feeling uprooted is rooted (ha!) not in you actually moving, but in anything but you moving. And it is still you that feels out of place.
And this poem speaks to that.
And the imagery speaks to one who is unbending, so if we return to my earlier message, it could perhaps apply to the one the speaker in those poem spoke to, rather than narrator. Unbending, unflinching. Losing parts of itself, but standing tall, head unbowed.
And lonely.
That first photo is gorgeous - feels like I'm looking at a rugged cliffside in some strange fantasy land. All that from just one tree! Which, in a way, reflects the solitude and quiet resolve of the poetry. Great post all round.
Short but sweet... powerful imagery as always too! Your pieces are more suited to my attention span haha :D
Keep it up... we're getting there!
With Love
Hart Floe Poet
♥
An we are lucky for its holing back. Lovely write and it just happens to be #treetuesday:)
Hey Mamadini, I was checking your post out and saw the you have some stuff up on poetry and about flipped out cause I am helping my wife/partner out to start getting her YT channel up and then a steemit page set up so she can share her poetry. WOW right? so we have a Youtube page set up for her and here is the link:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzvc-7nEGGEUmstnVDFvbmA
And we are waiting for Steemit to get her page up there and then she is going to start posting. Please sub to her channel and help her gain some comfort in her presentation. She has some really goodstuff but her confidence level is not that high. I helped her get her first couple of videos up and I am hoping she can take off and run with this once she gains some confidence. Thanks for helping if you can! Hugs
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