Night with its Velvet Breath
Posted on Feb 23rd, 2008
by 
Catherine
Catherine
ah the night with it’s velvet breath
fragrant, empty-scented
whisper-combed
half hinting
wind wishing
a lucid
quiet
tempered sweetness
and in the open
the open
I will stand
will admire this night
this moment
curved and flexing
night laid bare, unencumbered
nestle my brow
in its wide, dark shoulders
the harp
time’s strings moving
chords hovering
finger tips, tender
to the touch
of the touch
lids, lips, lashes
eyelashes raking the heavens
and sleepless
strums
sleepless strums
sleepless strums
and I wrap myself
in its fabric
in its strings
for its song
long ago written
is a song
with a price
(yes)
a song with no purpose
(true)
but it has come now
comes now
and slowly
it bears its gifts
©2008 C.L.B. Callender
fragrant, empty-scented
whisper-combed
half hinting
wind wishing
a lucid
quiet
tempered sweetness
and in the open
the open
I will stand
will admire this night
this moment
curved and flexing
night laid bare, unencumbered
nestle my brow
in its wide, dark shoulders
the harp
time’s strings moving
chords hovering
finger tips, tender
to the touch
of the touch
lids, lips, lashes
eyelashes raking the heavens
and sleepless
strums
sleepless strums
sleepless strums
and I wrap myself
in its fabric
in its strings
for its song
long ago written
is a song
with a price
(yes)
a song with no purpose
(true)
but it has come now
comes now
and slowly
it bears its gifts
©2008 C.L.B. Callender
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May 2008
this is so awesome…I feel myself wrapped in the nite and its musical flight…I so enjoy your work…thanks for being!!!
Thank you Kimmergy! (so glad you enjoyed it!)
You poems are not just to be read- but to be read aloud. A wonderful combination of word and sound. I thoroughly enjoy reading your work.
You are a very talented poet Catherine… well done! I would single out one or two lines, but it all flows so smoothly, so deliciously. And I'm referring to all your poems here. I am going to be a regular visitor.
Phil… David
(thank you:-)
what a beautiful night!
i'm feeling a warm breeze washing and tinging my shoulders and a quiet unsung melody.
I guess like a flower, it has no SINGLE answer. But it gives in abundance anyway.
so…that was my experience! and i loved it ;-)
thank YOU!
Night's here. I end this night with this poem. Your poems are thoughtful. A+
are you a harpist catherine, or is that a play off of the words of the psalmist, David??
I do play harp…and do write music..i like your techique of writing poetry…schooled i think for sure…whereas mine is unschooled and i know nothing about form and structure, lol…
it moves and dips and ebbs…interesting indeed…
very nicely done..
Thank you Arin and Yaffie…
I do not play the harp, but do have a good friend who does, and I like to listen to her and watch her play. (and it is all so full of subtlety and multiplicity… and gentleness. Quite metaphoric indeed!)
As far as “schooling” in poetry writing…. have none what so ever… want to keep it that way, because for me… in so many ways… “too much thinking” would crush the muse. It is almost as if I give intuition full reign of the chariot… leave all “rational” understanding of it for when “it's done”:-)
(because when it comes to form and structure, it is best to “let them bloom” by themselves… leave the “critical thinking” to be an afterthought… not a forethought.)
Well, I kind of feel the same way, I just write it like i feel it and some people think that poetry should follows its teachings about ambi whatever and stuff i never learned..
i don't censor my stuff like that…i try to let it flow whether or not it exactly rhymes or doesn't.
have you read any of my stuff??