Dream of Star Child (three double etherees)

by Larry Chamberlin   Sep 3, 2015


I'm
falling,
feels as if
eternally,
but am I falling
down town or upside down?
I've been in this mode so long
directions now become toilsome
to assess, no plane of reference
beyond my own spread-eagle arms and legs.
But now I see something - must be below
for I am drawing closer to it,
or else it is drawing toward me,
[two bodies are in motion,
which is stationary
at least relative
to the other?]
Never mind
I have
missed

Stone
it was
amber and
variegated;
with hidden meanings
dark whorls warping inward
like half-snatched ideas left out
in the extinction of dream-time,
eroded to mundane archetypes
slick enough to out-fool the waking mind;
yet, absurdly, the stone looms before me
constricting distance within space-time
impossible reappearance.
What is its trajectory
that we have come around
carousel of space
for a second
chance to grasp
the ring
Struck!

Burnt
with truth
no escape
mortal combat
with profound idea:
limited existence
defined by what is "other!"
No longer such omnipotence,
no more the entirety of All,
and yet no longer need to be alone.
This hand holds a stone, an agate key chain;
on one side is flesh terminating
at a wall rigid, smooth and cold;
it's stone, mine is hand, not one
but potential unseen
for why a key chain
except to hold
an answer
to some
lock?

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  • 9 years ago

    by Meena Krish

    You know I like the title and the form but when I started reading that is when I realized this poem has a deeper reference to grasp which the writer has experienced. Life does take us in different ways and we are placed with the keys to unlock the door we want to take.

    When it becomes too much it feels like we are falling from the earth's bed. I like the opening of your first stanza it makes the reader wonder about this fall-is it a dream or is it a situation that has made your inside want to fall into a nothing.

    The second and third stanza has a lot of life's lesson/message and what you have been through, perhaps the decisions you have taken has made you to wonder and write this poem :)

    All in all this has been a journey of a life that has witnessed and living with the decisions taken..take care.

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