Clarity Alongside Chaos
A realist's best-case scenario
The wind catches in my giant silver hoops
Tiny vortexes spiraling past my ears
Wailing gently
Like a conch shell
Or a bubble wand
Or the sigh of my soul as I perch high in a church
for a God in which I have no faith
My thoughts vacillating from purest piety to deepest sin
From ecstasy to agony
On two uncoordinated sine curves,
Intersecting in a pattern too complex
for my mortal mind to comprehend
I give thanks for it all
I shiver with peace
I shiver with fear
I shiver with rebellion
I shiver with cold too
Yet I am content
When bells chime with incessant jubilance
Or wind channels its keening directly into my ear canal
I am overwhelmed with noise
And I hear the poetry
My mind is a storm in a teacup
A macchiato monsoon
Deliciously bitter, and charged with all the divine radiance of lightning
That parts oily charcoal clouds
for brief moments of clarity alongside chaos
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Violet P. Davies
Words make me feel fulfilled occasionally.
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Comments (12)
Very unique and really let's one see your passion for writing.
You have a really gorgeous style to your work. Absolutely a pleasure to read!
Love this!!! I felt very connected, and related to it tremendously.
Exceptional work! congratulations!❤️
Nice poem. Congrats on Top Story!
A macchiato monsoon, I love it!
Such lovely imagary and loved the couch shell one especially.
Beautiful. Inspiring. I love the image too. I hope you don't mind, I'm going to look for it and see what it inspires. I love seeing it when other people use the same image I have, but write something I may have never thought of.
This is a wowser moment. Love the way you weaved the words on this one. Congrats on Top Story. You have a new subscriber!
great poem and congrats on the top story!
Peace. A moment of peace. Where things align. That's what I get from this. And midnight mass on Christmas Eve. That too. I loved this.
This felt so intense. Loved your poem!