the sky is hungry
the sky is hungry for your breath
if you would open your flesh
for the sun to pierce through
your tears
the way your cries, raw
as the blood in a bull's throat,
rip through the morning
as a crowd gathers
if your breath would spill out
from your heart
into the air
if a hand would reach you
if you could break through the walls
of the corrida
if you could see over your bones
if I could catch you with my mind
if you could step for one minute out of your skin
the hungry sky
would hold you
if you would open your flesh
for the sun to pierce through
your tears
the way your cries, raw
as the blood in a bull's throat,
rip through the morning
as a crowd gathers
if your breath would spill out
from your heart
into the air
if a hand would reach you
if you could break through the walls
of the corrida
if you could see over your bones
if I could catch you with my mind
if you could step for one minute out of your skin
the hungry sky
would hold you
posted by Yes at 10:52 PM
9 Comments:
do you ever cry when writing these?
strong emotion!
Gracie--It takes a lot to make me cry, even when I feel like crying...
I just went to see the movie "Sicko", and almost broke down and cried in the theater--but something always holds me back--
(great movie, you would love it!)
So I think writing poetry is a safe way to release some of the emotions that we feel--I know you do that very well!
The long wait was certainly worth it. I am always glad to "open my flesh" to the piercing of your words!!
firebird, welcome back! this is breathtaking writing...
"if you could step for one minute out of your skin
the hungry sky
would hold you"
omg woman, you are amazing!
big hugs! snow
Pat-Thanks--sorry for the long wait--hope it won't be so long next time, and thanks for continuing to check in!
ss--your comments are so generous, I truly appreciate it! And I'm glad you're back, too...
if you could break through the walls
of the corrida
Clever!
It's nice to read your work again.
mb--it's great to hear from you again! You have been missed, of course...
I notice you have a way of picking out the lines I am not sure will communicate--
so I really appreciate that you "get it"! Thanks so much!
I hope you have some golden moments in between all the stress...it is summer, after all...
Really works - the words and together with the photo.
Wonder if this was taken in a cemetery. In my hometown one of the two cemeteries has angels on pedestals at the ends of each row and I remember any number of times pausing to look up before/after jogging and seeing them from just this angle - sometimes even the bare branches in the background!
Thanks, Paul--I'm glad you noticed the angel--yes, it is in a cemetery, along with many other angels, scattered among (or on) the tomb sites...
I stopped to get a photo of a really beautiful angel near the fence, and had to go inside to photograph all the others! They seemed so real, as if they could communicate...this is one of maybe twenty angel statues, and it seemed to capture the message in the poem for me--
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