I'd probably be mad too, if someone did this to me, lol! 
Posted on 08/06/2002 6:06:10 PM PDT by Sabertooth
I'd probably be mad too, if someone did this to me, lol!
Never Again The Same
Speaking of sunsets,
last night's was shocking.
I mean, sunsets aren't supposed to frighten you, are they?
Well, this one was terrifying.
People were screaming in the streets.
Sure, it was beautiful, but far too beautiful.
It wasn't natural.
One climax followed another and then another
until your knees went weak
and you couldn't breathe.
The colors were definitely not of this world,
peaches dripping opium,
pandemonium of tangerines,
inferno of irises,
Plutonian emeralds,
all swirling and churning, swabbing,
like it was playing with us,
like we were nothing,
as if our whole lives were a preparation for this,
this for which nothing could have prepared us
and for which we could not have been less prepared.
The mockery of it all stung us bitterly.
And when it was finally over
we whimpered and cried and howled.
And then the streetlights came on as always
and we looked into one another's eyes?
ancient caves with still pools
and those little transparent fish
who have never seen even one ray of light.
And the calm that returned to us
was not even our own.
Like children of the reeds before the flight, Past yesterday we'll scale through croaking calls.
We have dragonflies of every color here in SW Florida. They live for a year under the water as shrimp-like creatures, feeding on tiny fish and such, only to climb by some instinct up those "reeds" one day, shed their skins and become dragonflies...able to rise above those frogs awaiting dinner on the lily pads. Tails curl when shedding their skins, and when paired in their lovely mating flights.
My neighbor used to "charm" giant dragonflies into landing on his hand. At age 5 I wanted to marry him. Such is the power of a poetic soul, much stronger than cheese. (^:
My neighbor used to "charm" giant dragonflies into landing on his hand.My thanks to you, RTC. I wanted to shoehorn some dragonflies in somewhere for effect, but ran out of room. I'm glad this image reminded you of them, though it wasn't intentional.
Those lines you mentioned further describe the journey up the river, and are also meant to evoke an image of another, rather well-known journey. And more.
Very cool! Did you know that fossil dragonflies had wingspans of up to 18"?
Ouroboros Falls is something of a sequel to the Chronoglyphics poems on my profile page.
Wow! They like to eat mosquitoes...6" mosquitoes? Ouch.(^:
The saved ascending on that longest, brightest day without end (meeting someone brighter), uncorrupted and now untouchable by the maddened dragon Satan below?
Or dragonflies.
Yes, they'd swoon (imho). (^:
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