From Grace Fall Your Eyes

By Silver Spectre

Do you hear the ocean in my breath
Or see the pearls in my eyes
I try to lay upon you now the truth
But distance is your space that is dreamed to life

Something in your tears that might relate
May fall upon the lips of one
Whose cheeks are mountains in your skies
When you feel like you are your forest alone

Thick skin thins the color of light
While fragile bones cast like runes on stone
Fate is written on the soles of our feet
And death is seen first in the white of eyes that bleed

Wine you make from the fruit of my offerings
An intoxication of a lesser truth you pray
But less than truth is just a lie
When your skin turns to sand
And from grace fall your eyes

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Copyright 2003 Micahel Wayne Tabor
Published on Tuesday, October 7, 2003.     Filed under: "Poetry"
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  • thecitymorgue On Sunday, September 18, 2011, thecitymorgue (38)By person wrote:

    So rich in it's symbolism. Very beautiful in places and very scary too. Good poem. All the best.

  • A former member wrote: I don't know if you were going for this, but I felt a lot of death in the poem. Truelly splended.

  • Silver Spectre On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, Silver Spectre (90)By person wrote:

    is a warning of death.....I think i inrended it to be more of a spiritial death but death non the less

  • A Velvet Tongue On Monday, October 13, 2003, A Velvet Tongue (436)By person wrote:

    "Fate is written on the soles of our feet "...beautiful indeed...in this I saw your soul...and it radiates with the glow of love...

  • cre On Sunday, October 12, 2003, cre (411)By person wrote:

    This really is utterly beautiful . . incredible . . the images you spun and the cadence is magnificent . . wonderful write.

  • CharlottesWeb On Sunday, October 12, 2003, CharlottesWeb (511)By person wrote:

    Oooo....aaaaa.....;) This was a momentous occassion in the metaphorical genre of poetry! Combined body and earth, like I've never imagined and forced my minds eye to elaborate on it's own directed creativity!! This is a WONDERFUL poem. I enjoyed it.~JMDW~

  • Stranger On Wednesday, October 8, 2003, Stranger (264)By person wrote:

    This just came alive in my mind's eye. You skillfully invoke powerful images and feelings with metaphors from nature. Just the right balance in your descriptiveness, so as to make the make the experience real, but not to distract with too many adjectives.

  • Drea On Wednesday, October 8, 2003, Drea (1443)By person wrote:

    such vivid images. to tangible. beautiful wonderful ~Drea~ /X\(..)/X\

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