August 3, 2005
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Here is a poem I wrote last night…also, if anyone knows how to not make it skip a line after you hit enter, please tell me because it is driving me nuts, I don’t like the way a poem looks double spaced, maybe I’m too sensitive but I feel like the look of a poem sort of affects a person’s interpretation of it.
Anyway, I can’t think of a name, which is also driving me crazy, so enough bitching already and here is the poem.
The seer caressed his cards
which seemed to be tiny paintings
shuffling through as if they were
old friends, wise and wonderful,
turning and shifting them
into formations older than
prophecies written down.
He shared to believe in
celestial guidance for
angels were holding my hand,
to chant and lift my prayers
to the higher powers and wait
for a manifestation of
the right path to follow
while trusting in faith and temperance.
They looked so lovely, these cards
and they seemed to hum beneath his hand
and I wanted to hear their music
to find some measure of relief and comfort
from the spiritual crisis
besetting my every turn
so I gave them a melody
and asked them to sing.
Comments (3)
Gorgeous poem!
Also, for it to not skip a line, try hitting shift and enter at the same time.
Oh yes I like this one. The singer in the cards. Nicely done. I wish I knew how to make the lines behave. I have the same problem Sometimes pasting from Notepad or Word works better than typing right into the Xanga box.
The Shift-Enter thing is how to do it … it’s the “manual page break” equivalent in Word …
Awesome poem — love the music aspect … “I want to hear their music” “I asked them to sing” … I can’t find the right words to describe how this made me breathe …