Amputated Moon

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Apr 10

Like the Horizon

Category: My Poetry

nasa-image-of-sunrise-on-the-horizon

I am curved

like the hand at rest

in the deep night

like the cheek

of a beloved child

 

I am never reachable

fixed– but not in time

or place

an illusion of distance

always flows through me

 

you see me

you walk to me

but you can never touch

my hand

my hair

 

I am unobtainable

fathomless

“like the horizon

I am more of a concept

than a corporeal being”

 

Pamela Olson, 4/10/09

 

For Read Write Poem’s prompt

“Thrift Store”—write a poem from a

found phrase

 

“like the horizon

I am more of a concept

than a corporeal being”

                        Dilbert by Scott Adams

 

7 comments

7 Comments so far

  1. carole (watermaid) April 10th, 2009 12:10 pm

    This kind of poem sends shivers down my back. You have used the found phrase to write something beautiful and mysterious.

  2. Erin April 10th, 2009 12:40 pm

    This is just brilliant. I love that you found such a source of inspiration in Dilbert. What you’ve done with it is amazing. I especially love “like the cheek of a beloved child.”

  3. jimmmaaa April 10th, 2009 12:50 pm

    I like the poem and like the picture with it. Good work

  4. wayne April 10th, 2009 2:23 pm

    I love it…anything about horizons..and painting horizons are my favorite

  5. Lori April 10th, 2009 2:47 pm

    How AMAZING is this?! Great job! I love how you are expressive of yourself in the terms of being a person but out of someone’s reach.

    http://lori102870.blogspot.com/2009/04/stitch-in-timenapowrimo-10by-me.html

  6. gautami tripathy April 10th, 2009 8:34 pm

    This poem has a sureal feel to it..

    A man, his fiddle and crows

  7. Crafty green poet April 12th, 2009 5:15 am

    yes this is lovely and eerie

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