Lemony moonlight turns through the room
ivory smooth and silent
while this day’s residue settles like a dust of breeze
congregated in a fervent sweep of sparkling
that filters truth through perception
into moments embellished like tattooed skin.
Our trunks become vessels for stories
cloaked in ink, symbols to invoke
our life’s residue, ivory smooth and sighing,
as needles filter truth through matter
conceiving and breeching
a human veneer.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This piece was born from a dozen words offered up at The Sunday Whirl. Visit the Whirl for other pieces that these words inspired.
undercaws 
Hey, it’s an amazing piece you’ve put together from those words. It’s very exciting to see how diverse human thought is and how the same set of words spring up various poems. This chain of images is my favourite: “fervent sweep of sparkling
that filters truth through perception
into moments embellished like tattooed skin.”
Lovely!
LikeLike
Brenda, if this were an advertisement for a tattoo parlor, I’d be making an appointment now. I love your repetition of “residue” and that shift from “silent” to “sighing”. My favorite is “symbols to evoke / our life’s residue”. But just beautiful from beginning to end.
Richard
LikeLike
The best tattooist in my city is an English teacher in my building. She’s a truly creative woman, so if you ever make it through Great Falls, let me know, and we’ll get something scheduled for you. 🙂
Thanks for stopping and leaving your impressions, Richard.
LikeLike
Sorry to be so late. Someone else used the word lush, which was what I felt and thought while reading your wonderfully penned images. Body memories create stories from long ago, other lives, and states of beings. This is a wonderful exploration of the wordle words.
Elizabeth
LikeLike
Elizabeth, Never worry about being late. I’m glad you are here. School started this week, and the “busy”ness of my life just intensified tenfold. I worry about making it out to others’ blogs to comment late in the week on their wordles, too, but that will be the nature of my year, I believe. My students are amazing and intriguing. The first two days were incredible. Day three starts in a couple of hours. Thank you for your comments. 🙂
LikeLike
“The Illustrated Man” was one of my favorite Bradbury tales too, and I have several relatives and friends who have gotten inked for various reasons, always to remember someone or an event or to express a belief or philosophy. I’ve considered it myself, but haven’t taken the plunge yet…
Terrific poem, Brenda – vivid and rich in its imagery. Almost makes me want to get that tattoo I’ve been pondering… 😉
LikeLike
Do it! I have four tattoos and no regrets. 🙂 Thanks for stopping Traci.
LikeLike
“Our trunks become vessels for stories”
This is the line that so arrests me, because it is so true. Our trunks–our bodies–are vessels for stories. Blood and bone have tales to tell, if only we will listen, listen. I could run with your one line and write another whole poem. Thank you for the insight and inspiration, Brenda!
LikeLike
Feel free to take that one line and run with it. If you do, let me know what you come up with, I’d love to read it.
LikeLike
“Lemony moonlight” is a wonderful opening line for this piece, Brenda! Your use of the wordle words is clean and pure. Beautiful writing.
LikeLike
This poem had me at ‘lemony moonlight’. Great poem, Brenda. 🙂
LikeLike
Beauty and subtlety made the poem a great read!!
LikeLike
Wonderful use of the words this week, Brenda.
LikeLike
Such beautiful writing. . .
“Lemony moonlight turns through the room
ivory smooth and silent”
The whole piece was so rich with imagery! I loved it. 🙂
LikeLike
I am with Viv on that one, Brenda. This is gorgeous. You never disappoint.
Pamela
LikeLike
I like the symmetry between the setting in the first and the human in the second. Dewy and subtle. Nicely done Brenda.
LikeLike
Wow I love to read where different poets that the wordle words! I have become such a wordle fan thanks to your Sunday Whirl!! I especially like the images you have in this poem, like “lemony moonlight” and ‘ivory smooth.” Thank you too for visiting my blog!
LikeLike
Your descriptive powers exploded. This was lush.
LikeLike
Lemony moonlight really pulled me in. It seems you and I were on the same wavelength this week. = )
http://lkharris-kolp.blogspot.com/2011/08/imprints-of-guilt.html/
LikeLike
Thanks Laurie….your piece pulled me in, too.
LikeLike
Very deep, dust sparkling and residue. Great use of the wordle words Brenda. 🙂
LikeLike
Thank you—wordles are always fun for me to write. They can get me going when I feel completely stilted.
LikeLike
I like very much what you did with the words, Brenda. I enjoyed especially thinking about trunks as vessels for stories cloaked in ink! So very true!
LikeLike
Thank you, Mary. I remember reading Ray Bradbury’s The Illustrated Man in high school. For me, he gave birth to the idea of tattoo as story, and it’s always fascinated me.
LikeLike
Oh, I loved Ray Bradbury. My favorite Bradbury: Something Wicked This Way Comes! (PS..hope you will visit my wordle.)
LikeLike
Ooh, I’m glad I didn’t read this before doing mine – I’d never have started! Lovely wordle.
LikeLike
Thank you, Viv.
LikeLike