AT THE STAKE (photomorph) & THE CASE FOR BURNING AT THE STAKE (non-dream free verse poem) by Roswila

THE CASE FOR BURNING AT THE STAKE

damn, how’s about just a taste, a dollop
of that passion I had for you, even though
it was unrequited it brought a bold energy
to my limping life … but, then again, maybe
I should be cautious how I poke at that time
(not so many years ago, yet it feels like that
proverbial eternity): do I really want its hot
cells running wild through my entire self
again, an odd sort of cancer that just kept
spreading? it took so much out of me (even
as it gave), demanding my nearly constant
attention like a toddler prone to tantrums if
ignored, not to mention the passage of even
more time in which to safely encapsulate
those molten feelings and thoughts away
from everyday life, still alive in a swirling
captivity but no longer interacting with the
rest of me, silent witnesses to the "not-you"
struggles as they come along; no, I don’t
want this tumor-like memory stash to spread
like a virulent dandelion’s progeny, painful
wishes and burning needs landing all over,
soft, insidious little gliders, to take root again
and overgrow and strangle all I’ve been
working on … no, I will hold these painful
if precious memories of you carefully deep,
encysted gently by my knowledge of what
life with them haunting my inner spaces once
more would ultimately cost me … and yet,
and yet, would what life I have left, lived on
such an incredible (if self-consuming) high,
be so horrid after all? like a witch going
gladly to the stake, embracing at last the
consequences of her life choices:
she’s always allowed the magic
to come home to her heart


[non-dream free verse poem written 12-27-19. Photomorph “At the Stake” (Screenshots 6 10-21-19(56)[2]) by Roswila]

PLEASE NOTE: in most browsers you can click on the above image for a larger version. Also, the photo accompanying a post is not necessarily meant to illustrate it, but to reflect some small, even slant or contrasting aspect of the verse, similar to Japanese haiga (illustrated haiku).

There are many other sorts of posts on this blog. I indicate which are about or influenced by dreams. Some non dream focused posts are book reviews, "regular" poems (some by other writers), scifaiku, writing exercises, Tarot haiku, photos, haiga, and so on. However, most of those are in much older posts. There's a listing by month going back to early 2006, at the end of the sidebar.

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until next time, keep dreaming,





[a/k/a Patricia Kelly]
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