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Blogs > Mariana_Trench_ > poetic disambiguation

Inanna  

Mariana_Trench_ 50F
1974 posts
2/13/2010 7:06 pm
Inanna
The people call out to Anu
Dove-like priestesses seize,
Prophets have oracular dreams, till
There is a stillness like death
Inanna's eyes upon the clouds,
The same, a stone of lapis lazuli
The same, a song beaten upon a skin

Euphrates dappled the water winks
Back to him, beguiling above
The Eucalyptus forest
The bridge, and the boat collateral
And the salty smell, a crunch of shells
The same, canopy of timbered limbs
The same, voice upon the winds

Nothing great has happened - yet
He hasn't met the giant...
He hasn't heard his friend's song,
Sad laments about Ereshkigal, her sister
Queen of Hell, a swerving raven
The same, coatings of clinging dust
The same, chambers of unending sorrow

But on the reddened shore of
The big salty seas, from her to
Over biting - pebbled, left-strewn
Banks that stretched choppy waves
Leaping where the shadows form
The same, the plains boil into ash
The same, the Tigress prowls

Beckoning nets deepening with catch
Our sacred river- she drank lustily
From arid, painful sands, eroding
The mother-goddess Rimat-Ninsun
She beckoned with a stabbing gaze
The same, flecks of mica boiled glass
The same, purity of flute whistles

She has spied him lustily
She's wanting something
From this efficiently lean hero
Shoulders bronzed, awaiting...this
Who had all knowledge- nemequ
The same, steady-eyed gaze
The same, sure-footed pace

His fingers digging her
Clay, dusky fingertips
Straddling, plaiting
His gleaming hair, churning
The flood has not bloomed...
The same, evening sky silence
The same, epic sense of place

Thanking the stars for
Their harmonies and their
Orbiting songs of triumph
He journeyed beyond exhaustion
Traveled all the way till now, with
The same, wedge-shaped words
The same, old history beginnings


Painting: Inanna
Artist: Todd F. Jerde
Mariana_Trench_ 50F
4396 posts
5/10/2010 9:51 pm
    Quoting willowwind:
    Oops...next time I will insist on the Cone of Silence.

    I think what interests me most about Sumeria is the sense of beginning. It was actually my hobby of game design that lead me to it, tracing back the origins of board games. It just feels like a focal point where you can strip back the layers and get to the root of human thought.

    Your poem takes me there. It has a sense of anticipation about it and of timelessness. Kind of a calm before the storm feeling. I don't know. I lack the vocabulary to say what I mean sometimes. I'll have to take my time with them and digest them and try to leave you something more than "Wow! I like it." all the time.
May I recommend to you a work of fiction by Katherine Neville titled "The Eight." It's about the game of chess, and various famous personages in history, and various important events and places throughout the scope of history. And it's a fun read. Something like a Dan Brown story but with two female heroines, rather than the typical Indiana Jones.

May I also recommend you check out my other Affairlook profile: dragonfliezzz which just also happens to be my y,Ya know?

MT


willowwind 55M

5/10/2010 9:16 pm

 Oops...next time I will insist on the Cone of Silence.

I think what interests me most about Sumeria is the sense of beginning. It was actually my hobby of game design that lead me to it, tracing back the origins of board games. It just feels like a focal point where you can strip back the layers and get to the root of human thought.

Your poem takes me there. It has a sense of anticipation about it and of timelessness. Kind of a calm before the storm feeling. I don't know. I lack the vocabulary to say what I mean sometimes. I'll have to take my time with them and digest them and try to leave you something more than "Wow! I like it." all the time.


Mariana_Trench_ 50F
4396 posts
5/10/2010 5:54 pm
    Quoting willowwind:
    I will. I already have plans to read it all. So there.

    My only question is, why aren't you publishing? I can't imagine there isn't a place for your work out there, if you chose to pursue it. Or is it something you just aren't interested in?

    Ok, there may or may not have been more than one question there.
Affairlook have a negative attitude about openly discussing or facilitating any publishing that removes a viable income source (me and my writing generate interest, increase or sustain membership) from their grips. Therefore, *should* I be persuing publishing (wink wink) it would not be in my best interest at this time to discuss it here. And *should* I eventually move my work or most of my work off site, due to conflict of interest, certain people who are my friends and who I deem colleagues in word (such as perhaps yourself, willow) would naturally be privy and hopefully have exchanged e-mails with me etc. etc.

We have to be rather Get Smart about this, got it, Maxwell?

MT


willowwind 55M

5/10/2010 4:34 pm
    Quoting Mariana_Trench_:
    I like yours too, Willow.

    Thanks for viewing.

    I hope you'll keep checking out my already posted (older) works. I have some which have barely been viewed, and feedback is always appreciated. Negative or positive.

    MT
I will. I already have plans to read it all. So there.

My only question is, why aren't you publishing? I can't imagine there isn't a place for your work out there, if you chose to pursue it. Or is it something you just aren't interested in?

Ok, there may or may not have been more than one question there.


Mariana_Trench_ 50F
4396 posts
5/9/2010 4:22 pm
    Quoting willowwind:
    I like your mind, MT. Just sayin...
I like yours too, Willow.

Thanks for viewing.

I hope you'll keep checking out my already posted (older) works. I have some which have barely been viewed, and feedback is always appreciated. Negative or positive.

MT


willowwind 55M

5/9/2010 10:56 am

 I like your mind, MT. Just sayin...


Mariana_Trench_ 50F
4396 posts
2/14/2010 3:59 pm
    Quoting rm_wellworded:
    Dear MT, enchanting on so many levels...thanks for sharing...j xox
Dear J,

You are always, always most welcome.

Be interesting to see, my friend, what you might think of the new post I just put up, linking this written portfolio to my visual art portfolio.

Happy Valentine's Day -

Yours in Cyberland,
MT


rm_wellworded 58M
923 posts
2/14/2010 2:17 pm

 Dear MT, enchanting on so many levels...thanks for sharing...j xox


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