Indigo Muse
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(06-23-2016, 02:51 PM)Vanity Wrote:  Indigo Muse

Mornings, I hear, are full of bright yellow chirpy things.
There is also fresh coffee, and anticipation.
The spiders are pissed and the slugs have slid away.
Now the fat little rusty red robins hop through my yard.
And squirrels bounce across the neon grass.
A Disney song is queuing. I lower the blind.
Not enough Earl Grey yet.

I really like the first stanza, most especially the tea flavor color.
The next stanza here is a bit repetitive.  You could clean some of it out by starting with your second line.
I don't think you need to mention yellow morning again since you did in the first stanza.

If morning is yellow, night is blue.
Evening slides in like an old lover.
It thrums with creativity.
Night is the color purple, navy, indigo
bruised like a ripe plum.
The tree line looks like black lace against the sky.
Cute things hide and predators roam free.
Green marble eyes stare steadily, and telegraph nothing.
Lightning bugs sparkle-
cicadas whine and shake like castanets.
The pond frog croaks like a metronome.
Humanity breathes slow and deep.
Around me, there is palpable unconsciousness,
eyes darting through incarnate dreams-- and
Sleep soaks in like rum on a fruitcake.

I love the line sleep soaks in like rum on a fruitcake.

My privacy is total, an oubliette.
I chew my pen cap,
sitting in a creamy oval of porchlight,
in a chipped white Adirondack chair.
I'm safely unneeded and undisturbed.
Breathing in the fecund green air, I think you could cut fecund here.  Too many descriptors.
I scribble thoughts wildly.
I'm not in this world really.
My body resides--but my gaze --
turns up to the stars I do not see.


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Hi.  I put in my comments in your quoted material and didn't bold them or anything since I am currently not on a computer.

I have a few suggestions here and there, but I think this is very nice.  I think the musing closes nIcely to your ending.  I like that the narrator does not see the stars.
"Write while the heat is in you...The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with."  --Henry David Thoreau
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Messages In This Thread
Indigo Muse - by Vanity - 06-23-2016, 02:51 PM
RE: Indigo Muse - by dukealien - 06-24-2016, 05:28 AM
RE: Indigo Muse - by Achebe - 06-26-2016, 08:49 PM
RE: Indigo Muse - by REW - 06-29-2016, 10:37 AM
RE: Indigo Muse - by Vanity - 06-29-2016, 11:11 AM



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