The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poetry Break, 3/11/09

[BlueIris]

"Kirlian Effect"
  Russian scientists discovered Kirlian photography during the 1950's.
 It captures light that emanates from objects placed in electromagnetic fields

Phantom of a leaf 
that's what they wrote in their notebooks. 

No break in the light,
what was cut away minutes before 

still part of the picture.
The leaf perfect, complete--

a ghost x-ray
held up against a square of night. 

Look at energy's bones. 
You can count them if you want to. 

They're all there. Energy's bones 
don't break, only shift

along the spectrum from health to sickness, 
presence to absence

They say the light shooting off the fingers and toes 
of a newborn is blinding 

but the man whose face 
is falling backwards into his pillow

sleeps in a field of almost total darkness
as if God were standing in the room 

dimming his soul. Death only a conduit,
the beating of the heart changed 

into ordinary miracles--radios speaking, 
phones ringing, coffeemakers clicking on.

If you pull the energy out straight 
you can see what a life 

looks like after it unravels.
Then you can fasten loss around your neck 

or let it drift like a white string
riding the wind of light-boned birds.

~Lori Lamothe

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear BlueIris!

Ah, this is just beautiful!

I love the transitions as different objects are mentioned...

Thank you!

:hug:

[BlueIris]

6. Yeah, this is greeeat. nt

[ThomCat]

2. Damn, this one is me right now.

I just spent 24 hours in bed, sleeping, unraveling, feeling like I was fading awake.

Now I'm awake, trying to slowly regain some strength. I could use some of that energy back.

Tell me there's a way to get it back, before I got back to bed and fade away some more...

[Chorophyll]

4. ...

:hug:

[ThomCat]

8. ...

Thank you.

:hug:

[BlueIris]

5. I wish I had a magical energy cure for you, hon.

The best thing I've found is long-distance Reiki (but you already knew that).

Feel better.

[ThomCat]

7. Damn, that reminds me.

My reiki/meditation cd got lost when we had to move my apartment all around. I still need to find someone to help me dig for that.

It's now on my to-do list. Thank you. :hug:

[Chorophyll]

3. This is wonderful.

Thanks, BlueIris. :hug: