Sunday, May 15, 2011

Occasional table dreaming

An overture. An orange peel. The ocean’s opalescent eels. The onerous drains. Auteurial games. The au courant says au revoir when, au début, it thought of you – now ordinary, then so strange. The open windows overlook an oleander’s opaque scent, the aubergines loll on the vine, a two-hand nocturne skips a beat. Occasionally, a table stands, an oval whorl tipped to its feet. A heap of books slips slideshod off and Dover Beach falls to the oak – Opa! Olé! Oohs and ah, love, let us be true. The table sways, tiptoes a ways, again it sits, again to sleep.

Image: Matthew Arnold with Occasional Table, by K. Bischoping
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11 comments:

  1. somewhereamelodyNovember 1, 2011 at 4:18 PM

    Dover Beach is a classic :) The first three images in this poem are simply delectable! Mesmerising writing!

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  2. Brian MillerNovember 1, 2011 at 6:42 PM

    fascinating dance to your words...your flow of imagery one to the next is vivid...the table shifting made me thing of an earth quake honestly...well played...

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  3. hedgewitchNovember 1, 2011 at 7:49 PM

    Great alliteration, and a lively flow.

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  4. Jenne' R. Andrews November 2, 2011 at 12:16 AM

    Don't be deterred if you don't get many comments at first but I must tell you that your language sense is intoxicating-- Again, your associative leaps and nicely ambiguous "meaning" are wonderful. I wonder if you've investigated The Seneca Review, perhaps send a few poems in? I had a poem in that journal many moons ago and have thought about sending in some of my prose poems. Thanks for reading me today; I especially loved:

    The au courant says au revoir when, au début, it thought of you – now ordinary, then so strange. The open windows overlook an oleander’s opaque scent, the aubergines loll on the vine, a two-hand nocturne skips a beat. I posted an aubergine poem awhile back...xxxj

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  5. UnknownNovember 2, 2011 at 12:16 PM

    Wonderful flow here. The alliterative nature to the sounds are done perfectly. Nice read, thanks

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  6. BeachannyNovember 2, 2011 at 3:01 PM

    Beautiful alliteration. Glad I know French..it was lovely.

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  7. Joanne Young ElliottNovember 2, 2011 at 4:04 PM

    Oh how I love the "oh" sounds in this. Dreamy and wonderful. Thank you for sharing with us.

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  8. RavenblackNovember 3, 2011 at 3:55 AM

    The rhythm when reading is great. :) Had fun reading it.

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  9. Shashidhar SharmaNovember 4, 2011 at 2:54 AM

    The vivid imagery... playing on to the landscape of my mind.. and with your last words, you made it perfect...

    Shashi
    ॐ नमः शिवाय
    Om Namah Shivaya
    http://shadowdancingwithmind.blogspot.com/2011/11/whispers-fire-faayar-faayaar-dedicated.html
    At Twitter @VerseEveryDay

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  10. Maggie Patti Barbara Frankford-WaltonNovember 10, 2011 at 2:24 PM

    orange peel imagery is charming.
    mindful words, smiles.

    keep your talent coming,
    join us if you could.

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  11. HazelJuly 25, 2012 at 10:10 AM

    Kathy, this is fantastic. So smooth and redolent.Reminds me of big old slumberous French houses on the Mediterranean.

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