“Though lovers be lost, love shall not;
and Death shall have no Dominion.”
Dylan Thomas
Monet at Giverny
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fish aloft like birds
skimming wet sunshine
spring’s first swallow
rising from the depths
to snatch a golden note
quivering in the air
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thunder raises dark ripples
lightning a forked tongue
insinuated into paradise
an apple tossed away
caution thrown over the shoulder
as sharp as salt
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winds of change
that first bite
too bitter to remember
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timeless this tide
this ebb and flow
oh great pond-serpent
biting yourself
forever
rogermoorepoet 
Amazing!
And I love this
“Though lovers be lost, love shall not;
and Death shall have no Dominion.”
Dylan Thomas
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Dylan Thomas was born in Swansea (as I was), and I have long been enamored of his poetry. I have used lines from his poetry as titles for my works on a couple of occasions and I have based some of my rhythms on his, though in part it is the natural rhythm of the Welsh with which I grew up. Alas: my work will never be as good as his … but I keep on trying!!!!
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Lots of beautiful images here: the salt and apple over the shoulder; the swallow catching the note.
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I double thought on whether it was a note or a mote and stuck with note, though I am still wondering. Glad you like it. Throwing salt over the shoulder i an Old Welsh Superstition to take away bad luck.
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What a beautiful poem!
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Thank you. It’s one of my favorites.
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Every line is beautiful, Roger! I love the written depiction of the cycle of time. This is a wonderful piece.
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Thanks, Tanya. There is something eternal about the painter’s image trapped in the water’s mirror. I am so glad you like this poem. I remember it when I see the paintings and I recall the paintings when I re-read the poem. Another of nature’s cyclical movements.
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Thanks, Meg. These four short poems complete the sequence of Monet at Giverny. When I read it in public, I ask the audience to close their eyes and listen to the colors. It is a verbal kaleidoscope when performed this way.
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Descends, not deteriorates! 🙂 The poem doesn’t deteriorate *smacks forehead*
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No problem, Meg. The weather deteriorates and the poem ends in a circle that takes you back to the beginning … I hope. I think I missed the raindrops pooling circles on the water … maybe I will add that in, if I revise it!
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I really loved this one – The whole Monet at Giverny, I mean. 🙂
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Thanks, Meg. Something “happened” while I was writing it and it really “clicked”, somehow. I thought at the end: “Did I really write that?”
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Oh, that’s super cool! True inspiration: breathed in and exhaled onto the page!
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It happens to all of us at one stage or another. Deus est in nobis is how the Roman poets described it. It is a strange transfigurement that descends upon me occasionally, when I am blessed by that Celtic Goddess blown in from the Sea who doubles as my muse.
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AH! Love it!!!!!!!!
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Oh I like how it starts out with sunshine and spring and deteriorates into storms and darkness. The serpent biting itself…
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