We highlight on ILA, the pen of a prolific bard and his poem, "Perceptions Beyond Derelictions" as our January 2025 Editor's Choice.
PERCEPTIONS BEYOND DERELICTIONS
Iced weight weighs on branches of freeze
as arms stretch open to birds in the trees
following impulses to do as they please
priorities rest on choices made best
on decisions made with reasonable precision.
Clouds black out beauties rolling up on high
in bleak weary windows of widowed shadows
color low lonesome ugly marrows of tomorrow
baste tasteless raw bone broths of sorrow
as cold shivers deliver unfrozen emotive slack
to slip defenses of home through hidden cracks.
Windy white outs of winter obfuscate brains
as shady gray slogs hint at images out of fogs
made plain these outlines of mistakes remain
textured in fabrics not up to the task
distilling icy chills from another silent still kill
ever aware of being prepared for journeys end
exposed to frozen elements, about every bend.
Snow globe of mistakes flaunt now
white flakes wholesomely hearty with starry obstruction
over chalked blackboard smear of emotions
imbuing kaleidoscope hopes infused with hues
suggesting progressions of thin prism truths
transcending perceptions beyond derelictions.
Illuminating space mocking the colorless trace
of elevating tastes gracing such sensual touch
setting sights on nights of sweet favored flights
multiplying bright dimensions of rainbows hush
no longer snow blind to such misdirected slush.
© MATT ELMORE
U.S.A.
© Winter photo taken above by Matt Elmore
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