The new year has begun quietly. We saw it in with friends. It is always an awkward moment for me and I never feel comfortable with it. But this was easy. We made our peace with the old year and welcomed in the new with old friends, plenty of wine and good things to eat and lots to talk about.
2006 was a difficult year in lots of ways but I think 2007 should be more straightforward. We are still settling in and adjusting to the major disruptions of 2004/5, as well as coping with new challenges at work and with the children.
Any way here is a poem from the poetry challenge which is going well I think. The poem comes out of some of the stresses and tensions brought about by 2004/5 changes.
Hope you like it.
Happy New Year!
Love
David
The Samurai Sunset
I brought you back this glass plate.
A peace offering,
that came with its own light,
as red as a hard pulsating bruise.
Translucent.
The colour of blood
skeletal shadows
inhabit its depths.
Deep magenta
too dark to fathom
a flame too hot to touch.
Incendiary,
incandescent magma spill
to cauterise the wound.
In the gallery where I found it
they framed the Samurai Sunset
with smooth glass pieces
soothing curves
pale shimmering lights
soft undulating lines
of green blue sea surge
and aqua-dark cyan.
I bought it for you.
It spoke my rage for me
transformed it into something of beauty.
© David Loffman
29 December 2006
2 comments:
I Like the way that you've mixed the two destructive images of fire and blood, or wounds. The vivid colours of the painting come across very strongly.
thanks Daniel.
I like the way the poem mixes a genuine gift of love and at the same time communicating anger and hatred.
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