please tag me if you share <3 @meliorsini
you asked me to let you in
we stripped silence
i showed to you step by step
my instructions manual
to survive love simulacrums
we turned off the echo
of contempt
that tasted bitterness
so many times before
you welcomed me into your skin
we mirrored infinite
serene air filled my lungs
between sighs and salt rivers
that sprouted from my body
we evicted fear
and each other offered
our portion of universe
we gathered all the words
firmly joined them together
and decided to be each other's home
a while longer
About the Creator
MELO
i'm a human with a masters in creative writing, most fluent in poetry :)
born in 1993 at the caribbean, really a citizen of the world
listen to my band's music: NÖMADÄS in all streaming platforms <3
A Flower Song
Apparently the Aztecs, Toltecs, Chichimecs and other Mexica were crazy about poetry. Despite the book-burning, slaughter, and epidemics that characterized the early stages of the Spanish conquest of the empires of Mexico, some hundreds of poems from the height of their tradition come down to us in Classical Nahuatl, preserved by Nahua and Spanish scholars of the 16th century. One of the most famous poets, Nezahualcoyotl, was a sage-king who opposed the cult of human sacrifice associated with Tezcatlipoca, God of the Smoking Mirror, and favored Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent. Flowers and feathers were the favorite offering of the Plumed Serpent. Moreover, flowers and feathers are a metaphor for poetry. Individual words, scattered petals, the down of tropical birds. The temples of blood sacrifice could be transformed into temples of flower and song. A sublimated offering to the Heart of Earth and the Heart of Sky encapsulated in the Classical Nahuatl kenning for poetry: in xōchitl in cuīcatl, meaning, "the flower and the song." The following poem is part of a longer work, and is in a state of flux, so take the waters as they flow:
By Rob Angeli3 days ago in Poets
Comments
There are no comments for this story
Be the first to respond and start the conversation.