Photo from diseaseproof.com
vitreous mosaics
of chaotic yellow-green
arrogant ampules
archaeology discovers
under unmade beds
tell their decadent
broken glass histories
in ancient cut
opioid hieroglyphs
tinted by tears
painless bodies
cannot decipher
Writer Lynne Sargent
Poetry Puttering by Pax & Company
Sometimes everything has to be enscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside you. Sometimes it takes a great sky to find that small, bright, and indescribable wedge of freedom in your own heart. David Whyte
"drink from the well of your self and begin again" ~charles bukowski
no dust here
Copywriting, Editing, Publishing & Content Development Services * PHONE / TEXT (236) 881-3185
Looking ahead, without looking back (too often)
flights of fancy from New Zealand
You're never alone, if you've something to share
All you touch and all you see / is all your life will ever be
VICEDOMINI OF THE WUP New Name, New Location! Welcome to our poetry corner, The Poets’ Corner NEW SITE! The name has been changed to (our) because it belongs to all of us who post! Sincerely hope you find the change easy and exciting to be here! Please feel free to post and comment your thoughts so we all can enjoy!
Poetry Blog © Copyright 2010 - 2023, Katerina Michouli. All rights reserved.
I am where the valleys are deep, the mountains are high, and the wind moans through trees...
Poesy plus Polemics 
The amount and constitution of pills one takes as the body breaks down is unimaginable to able bodied/minded people. You express this so well in your poem.
LikeLike
Indeed, they cannot understand.
LikeLike
Great imagery here. ‘Opioid hieroglyphs’ was very powerful.
LikeLike
Very glad it worked for you. Thanks.
LikeLike
Reblogged this on Poesy plus Polemics.
LikeLike
Reblogged this on The Rocky Summit and commented:
I cannot recommend people read this author’s blog every week. He’s also published a book that I’m ordering today. What he writes is hauntingly beautiful and thought provoking. Your mind will compulsively expand upon reading his writing. His poetry and prose will stay with you as your subconscious feeds on the layers of meaning, nourishing your heart and soul with previously unknown perspective.
I am reblogging this particular poem because it strikes my very core. Careful cost-benefit analysis compels me to reject synthetic comfort in favor of living live with discomfort so great it severely limits even my range of movement (I have 30% ROM in my neck). What Pail has written here explains why I gladly choose to live this way.
Thank you, Paul, for, once again, endowing my day with meaning and clarity.
LikeLike
your extraordinary comment leaves me humbled and speechless – may God bless you and grant you ease of your pain
LikeLike
Well deserved. 😉
LikeLike
Thank you so much. For your good wishes and the consolation your writing offers.
LikeLike
Thank you so much.
LikeLike
“Your mind will compulsively expand upon reading his writing. His poetry and prose will stay with you as your subconscious feeds on the layers of meaning, nourishing your heart and soul with previously unknown perspective.”
Whoa! What a compliment! 😀
LikeLike
as I said above, I’m speechless – and grateful
LikeLike
😉
LikeLike
It was well deserved!
LikeLike
Indeed. 😀
LikeLike
Please excuse the typos. I do my WP reading on my iPad, which means that when I want to comment, I must type in a small box. Betwixt that, my not so great vision, and auto correct, comments like the above are the result.
LikeLike
Strong, powerful–opioid hieroglyphs worked for me too. I lost some years (can’t remember how many, as opioids cancel out a lot of memory function–which can be a mercy)–before I realized the very temporary condition “pain free”, had become a 24/7 “freedom” from all thought, creativity, interaction with the conscious “living” world. It was a horrid sort of waking death, day after day–nothing about eternal “rest” to it. So I’ll take the pain now–it’s more productive–and when it subsides for a time, the JOY is glorious. It’s Friday, I’m rambling on and on….
LikeLike
I agree wholeheartedly – but pain is a powerful foe
LikeLike
Oh I know, I’m not diminishing the impact whatsoever; some days it’s like choosing one hell over another.
LikeLike
Reblogged this on misplaced smiles.
LikeLike
thanks for sharing my poem with your readers
LikeLike
My absolute pleasure! 😉
LikeLike