The timeless unwound
10 January 2016
I looked at myself
Within a shadow of frames
Nothing defined me
I looked through myself
Within inner lights’ workings
Everything I was
Sparse in all spaces
A sketch of what was to be
Grown into being
Density of sorts
Popping Russian wooden dolls
One within other
Unwinding layers
Wavering and flickering
Discovering all
A process of sight
Juxtaposition of all
The whispering clues
No process of change
Yet sight itself mutated
Embodied transfers
Axis slow dragged me
On a path of renewal
Soul’s petals unwrapped
I am no longer
Only was all that will be
All that ever was
Water in ocean
The inward switching outward
Ocean in a mole
Transient mutating
Permanent lasting stable
All that lies beneath
The time bound facing
Finding discovering bright
The timeless unwound
Animated (gif) images courtesy of pinterest.com for the first two and lovethispic.com for the last.
Birdie – Abel Korzeniowski
Sunset – Abel Korzeniowski
Stillness of the mind – Abel Korzeniowski
Loved the form and the way you’ve revealed the emotions in respect to time… 🙂
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Thank you, I toy with time a lot because it is a concept I had difficulty with since childhood 🙂
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A beautiful process of explaining the emotions a change and times passing. Beautiful, Geetha. 🙂
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Thank you Eric. Change is inevitable so it would be foolish to attempt to stop it as they say 🙂
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Indefinable time, yet you have found the words..
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Thank you, I am glad you think so. I always struggled with the notion of time as it was explained to me since childhood.
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Beautifully written! Love the form 🙂
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Thank you Ryan :). This is written as a series of Senryu 5/7/5 like the Haikus except that Senryus describe human feelings mainly (in a nutshell although not a precise distinction – more is under the tab senryu in the menu under Poems by poetic form)
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Yes – the senryu is, quite possibly, my favourite form. I think you’ve done a brilliant job continuing the thought over so many senryu stanzas. So much work goes into each one. Very nice 🙂
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Thank you so much Ryan. For some reason I could not reply from my phone. I love working on several stanzas and their cohesion. Initially I had started writing lone haikus and senryus and then somehow got into the habit of writing several thematic haikus or senryus together. I find it liberating to write many of them on the same theme 🙂
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