Everything is speaking to me
whispering to me
urging me out to peer over the edge
at the far below place of song and shadow
The air rustles with passing forms
invisible yet here all around me
writhing like a serpent in fire
and telling me a story I thought I knew
but the ending is all wrong
twisted around and impossible to follow
So now I’m wandering in search of it
and I’ve forgotten where the edge is
somewhere in the gathering mist
and any step now might be the one
that sends me into freefall
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Weekends and weekdays are merging together.
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9 responses to “Freefall”
Amazing offering friend hope all is well xo
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and time means no time at all 🙂
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Sounds about right (:
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I really enjoyed this poem… I felt the twists, the bends, the uncertainty whispering through the words. Very good imagery, well done! 🙂
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Thanks so much, I’m glad you enjoyed it! Cheers (:
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The poem expresses such a bewilderment with what the writer is experiencing – a loss of certitude, a loss of even negation – “the edge” – and the idea, the one idea that I appreciate most centrally, is that time and space are placed together:
“and I’ve forgotten where the edge is
somewhere in the gathering mist
and any step now might be the one
that sends me into freefall
—
Weekends and weekdays are merging together.”
One could call this pandemic poetry or the poetic response to a pandemic, when the temporal world gets near standing still, and yet the writer/poet’s being-in-the-world is still in a state of pre-pandemic momentum and linear time, one that is melting (merging) into something al(together) alien.
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Thanks for the reply! I always enjoy reading interpretations. This damn pandemic has definitely been an influence on my writing lately. For good or bad, though it’s probably not up to me to decide that! Cheers (:
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It’s certainly having multiple effects. 🙂
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Beautiful. You unintentionally brought out the deep feelings of being lost and alone and abandoned I’ve been fighting with. Hope you’re keeping safe and well!
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