Pictures of Patience
I
Fingers lace
a human bandage
a human bandage
to hide the blues
and yellowed purples
committed to cover
biding the clock's
sweeping hands
the tapping gently
9 - 1 - 1
II
When you're hungry
listening
takes fearsome patience
a coyote's dirt-scraped crouch
the rotation of
owl-eyed gestures
the snap-to
of a rattler
seconds before striking
III
Patience
be luck's meter
the day after the day after
depending on the cards
falling just so
IV
Numerals on a forearm
do not shift with time
the way memory
unhinges with a drag
in the story's telling
The virtue is
not in the suffering endured
but in the faith
unrocked
Copyright © 2010 Maureen E. Doallas. All Rights Reserved.
This series is my contribution to today's Blog Carnival for which the one-word prompt is "patience". A bi-weekly event open to anyone, the Blog Carnival is sponsored by Bridget Chumbley of One Word at a Time and Peter Pollock of Rediscovering the Church. For a list of links to all of today's contributors to today's carnival, go here.
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17 comments:
Five examples, five pictures of patience, all wrapped up in one beautiful poem.
Oooops, I missed this one!! Very pleased to read your contribution though.. I like it VERY much :-)
this is seriously beautiful. I love this collection...
Powerful stuff!
The last to paras are stunning.
Thanks Maureen.
'faith unrocked'
WoW!
Louise
i can see the pictures
Sheesh! That's pretty wild how we sort of went in the same direction, because I thought surely I would be the only person to go there. Very powerful words, Maureen.
Wow - that first stanza startled me!
"When you're hungry
listening
takes fearsome patience"
I can't even say how good this is, Maureen. Your words said it all.
Great! I so much enjoyed reading these.
Maureen - these are serious poetry. (Not sure if my grammar was correct just then...) But, really, these are incredibly potent. Short, terse verses punched with a wallop of meaning and imagery. Especially, this: "numerals do not shift with time the way memory unhinges with a drag." O M G
And I, too, am a really bad listener when I'm hungry.
Aahh, Maureen. Trying to comment would be like turning on the radio after being to an opera. All I can do is clap my hands sore...
"the snap-to
of a rattler"
Great sound. I feel it in my emotions too.
Maureen, that first one really struck me! These are all great examples... thank you.
I especially like the last one ...
The virtue is
not in the suffering endured
but in the faith
unrocked
Beautifully poignant description of what patience should be!
I may have to enter this "world" - your verses are habit forming. Each invites you to read on:)
The virtue is not in the suffering...but in the faith.
Wow.
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