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One Moment in Stone(Edit)

 

A brush of leg
mirroring mine
spaced delicious

Dust tumbles in air
playing kaleidoscope
to light,
laying transfixed
in scents
of jasmine and hyacinth
enfolding senses
to serenity,
and in the moonlight
as the Grey gum
castes her shadow
supreme

Struck
in Marbled rays
sprung from noon
to moon,
becoming
a tableaux of
lust,
etched indelibly
into the stone
of my soul

Gazing into
microscopic dust,

I sigh

— Seren, Oct 01, 2009

About This Poem

About the Author

Region, Country: Beyond the Black Stump..Australia, AUS

Favorite Poets: Pablo Neruda, P.K.Page, W.H.Auden, to many and various to include them all ...

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Bosscombat

16 years 8 months ago

:)

its been a dusty week :P blue moons and jazz. so this was the bus trip home eh... cant say it was wasted time :p hope u had a good one thanks for your presence the last few days has been great sorry we were boring though lol <3 pea ess.... im sweating profusely. runNnnWaI
Seren

Seren

16 years 8 months ago

Dearest Matty

least the bus ride wasnt wasted time then :P... the bus ride was nice air conditioned and cool and stuff lmao ahahahaha but I wasnt sure about this one not my normal fare but yeah lol thanks for the comment and the excitement tell them I want more flames at the next show LMAO I car thieves ? that has to be the most cops I have ever seen in one place in my life ... love you both and will talk soooooon :) huggles big love and hugs Jay-knee2bums mwah
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lyz

16 years 8 months ago

Aww

Yes, I like. Love the title as well. Struck in Marbled Rays, love the whole stanza. I sigh. When I read that, I sighed, lol. This is beautiful and you have enfolded my senses with the beautiful scent of your Jasmine and Hyacinth bouquet. Lovely. Love from Lyz. XX
Seren

Seren

16 years 8 months ago

Dear Lyz

This ones so different for me felt different writing it as well lol ... and it took a bit to get it to here wasnt sure if i had gotten it right ... thanks for the compliment if you feel like that? its how it was meant to make you feel ... love and higgest bugs Jayne x x x
seabhac

seabhac

16 years 8 months ago

Loved the linesDust tumbling

Loved the lines Dust tumbling in air playing kaleidoscope to light I can see a painted picture in my head of those dust storms you spoke of . It seems so strange to hear the season of another time and space to mine . Here we are winding down with colder Autumnal days and you are speeding up with rising sap. It opens one to wonder. Thanks for the lovely read Jayne and the sharing of your space Hugs Liz
Seren

Seren

16 years 8 months ago

Dear Liz

One night down at BossCombats lol it was still pretty dusty and the walls with the light and dust playing on them look like they were going round in a kaleidoscope lol sooo this is the moment ... and I wasn't sure if I had gotten it right but yours and lyz and Mattys comments eased my mind lol thanks love and higgest bugs Jayne x x
Candlewitch

Candlewitch

16 years 8 months ago

Dearest Jayne

***** I loved every line. You are so talented. I can see the remnants of your dust storm just swirling in the air. It must really be something especially at sunset. my favorite lines are: A brush of leg mirroring mine spaced delicious and Dust tumbling in air playing kaleidoscope to light, laying transfixed in scents of jasmine and hyacinth enfolding senses to serenity, very picturesque. Love, Cat
Seren

Seren

16 years 8 months ago

Dear Cat

I took the picture on my profile on the way down to Newcastle on monday, the light and the way it shone down was amazing I hope the pic is good enough quality to see ... now you see why I get inspired LOL I live in one of the most beautiful countries in the world (huggles) thanks for the read and the comment hun I am always so happy when you like them and I thought of you when i took that picture on monday wanting to show you :) love and higgest bugs Jayne x x x Edit:-The picture btw is taken at a little place called Tea Gardens and its really beautiful on the ocean ... lol just wanted to show you a bit more of aussie I got more to come LOL ;)
Candlewitch

Candlewitch

16 years 8 months ago

=0

Wow! Beautiful. I so wish I could see Australia and New Zealand some day. My other favorite places to visit would be, England, Ireland, Scotland (I'm Irish, English and Scottish) and Italy. You keep taking those pictures and I will be grateful! Love, Cat
Seren

Seren

16 years 8 months ago

Dear Cat

Thanks huni glad you liked the picture ... have got a few more will resize them all send them to you in an email ... Love and higgest bugs Jayne x x
Geezer

Geezer

16 years 8 months ago

Kaleidoscope...

of emotion here. You got it right in one! You write so easily of nature and lust. LOL You have to be at least part 'Nymph' You know the one of which I speak. LOL So glad that you have the strength to write so lustily of the amazing things that go on inside your head, so that we can share. Love and higgest bugs, ~ Gee. P.S. I tell wifey all the time, " Hey look, I'm turning to stone!" LOL
Seren

Seren

16 years 8 months ago

Dear Gee

I have always been a visual person and a person who listens intently lol and maybe I am part nymph lol I would be a water nymph though I am never far from water ... thanks for the read and the comment I am stoked you guys liked this one :D I wasnt sure of it , but then I never am lol love and higgest bugs Jayne x x
emogothgirl

emogothgirl

16 years 8 months ago

emotional. just the way

emotional. just the way people like it. you would think people had enough with this kind of thing, but look around and you see it isnt so.
Seren

Seren

16 years 8 months ago

Dear Emogothgirl

Sorry you didnt like it , But I have to say ? when people stop feeling ? then the poetry will stop ... If there is no emotion or shade ... then poetry will become boring and we will turn in emotionless automons ... and that will be a sad grey day kind regards Jayne :)
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bjp

16 years 8 months ago

Dear Jayne-Chloe,

I see you are keeping an active mind. I especially like the following lines from this poem. A brush of leg mirroring mine spaced delicious becoming a tableaux of lust, Gazing into kaleidoscope’d dust, I sigh I don't think that you should use kaleidoscope more than once in this short poem. And I don't know what a Grey gum is although it has a certain weight even for the ignorant (me in this case). The line after "a tableaux of lust" (drawn in stone) is partially explanitory and, to that extent, takes away from the shear creativity of such a breathy tableaux. I would really like to see the gems in this poem without deflections of their light. Brian
Seren

Seren

16 years 8 months ago

Dear Brian

Woot lol I can share something I know ... Grey Gums are my favourite tree Eucalyptus Punctata - Grey Gum This majestic gum tree most often has a smooth grey trunk, hence it’s name, and is a Koala Food Tree in areas of the New South Wales north coast where it originates. It’s also an important pollen source for bees when conditions are favorable and can grow into a rather large tree of up to 35 metres in height. It is suited to a variety of soils including poor or moist soils and the hard wood is used in heavy construction. Punctata is frost tolerant down to around -7 oC. I have copied this so you can see its native to my part of australia mainly ... in the night Brian these trees are the ghosts of the forest they shine white and caste an unearthly glow seriously ? beautiful ... thanks for your read and comment on this one ... I have many poems at the moment that are here and half finished or not been edited and this is one of them ... and I think your right about kaleidoscope butttttttttt till I thought of the word I wanted to use there I just left it as is ... shortly I wont be writing much at all soo all these will give me something to do in my spare time ... Hope your both bouncing and better ... sorry to be slack with emails I just got home thursday and its taken me two days to get my head back together lol take care of olya and yourself ... love and higgest bugs Jayne
Cloudthings

Cloudthings

16 years 8 months ago

You have written this journey so evocatively I can feel it

You are right, no rhyme, sorry, you write so profusely I hoped you'd forgive me not keeping up when I just can't. but this was so worth searching for, I love this far more (perhaps it's my current flavour...) I just wrote lustful one this morning damn you, it has no connection to this, but here I think you use simialr language (Aussie influence?... or is it the language of lust, all sigh & space & imagination?), we hot blooded women, can't keep us down, not with our pen anyway. You have written this journey so evocatively I can feel it, (felt it almost on my bus/train/bus trip yesterday from Horsham to Daylesford, 4 & 1/2 hours, ah but I had Dr Martina hypnotherapy on mp3 & Ursula LeGuinn, sigh), we are more similar than you know I think (I should see if you want to try Martina?). Very glad I came to find some other works I usually just wait & one of your pops into spotlight or evolution, forgive me, lately with so little time I admit to overlooking one or 2 in attempts to catch up with folk who don't get quite as much attention, not very fair really, I do apologise... Still, I have nothing to add, but a smile & another sigh to this work. Thanks Jayne, I like this one far more, please be patient with me. Cheers Anni~ "When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace". H.H. the Dalai Lama
Seren

Seren

16 years 8 months ago

Dear Anni

It is the language of lust and I hope that that is universal though it would be natural to have people from the same country and especially with your background and mine to write and use similar words ... I totally understand overlooking people when busy I have been guilty of that myself ... glad you could find something to like ... but I do understand personal likes and dislikes come into it ... certain writers I cannot read ... just the way they write puts me off I guess and I know I write differently from other people only because I make an effort to I have never been one to follow trends ... I make my own path even if sometimes its a lonely path you take care kind regards Jayne