Monday 12 November 2007

Ode To November

The cobbled streets shine in the tragic lamplight.They extend in corridors and endless pathways, leading into perdition.No trace of solace could be found on the grey walls that can bearly hold their own, fleeting, grace.Empty and spaceless the street unfolds, November. The damp sidewalk gapes into fine cracks, that seem to stream up and beyond unclear limits.The sound of running water, the trickle of some unseen stream, the dead waters of the street.Falling, crooked rooftops loom over the bent buildings, grey dusk and the storming crows, November.Trees that reach out in a hundred arms with a thousand fingers, grasping the fog that milks over the city, unholy watchers of the evening twisting their bodies into demented shapes against the fading hues of mock colour.Tiny shards of glassy rain cut our troubled faces, and the wind licks and salts our heavenly lacerations.The loneliness of the streetlamps pride into abandonment, November.No prayers for November...

"(...) Along the reaches of the street held in a lunar synthesis, whispers lunar incantations dissolve the floors of memory and all its clear relations its divisions and precisions.Every streetlamp that I pass beats like a fatalistic drum, and through the spaces of the dark midnight shakes the memory as a madman shakes a dead geranium."( T. S. Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night )


November's cold chain constricts my wake, and sings me its lullaby.Once heavy eyes close up their lashes the specters of insomnia take form out of the shapeless grey window frames, November.Black smoke from old chimneys, black ravens and grey skies, November my firing squad.

2 comments:

anothem said...

Nothing lasts forever,
Even cold November rain.

The last line sticked in my mind; memories come through. Oh, November...

Anonymous said...

I loved November

And then, the shadow that my eyes
so carefully followed,
crumbles.
The wind gets me there faster than my own desire.
I lean down to it only to feel its last respire.
Nothing more I can do.
I leave it there
while I go humble.

Its grey, not dark, still follow.
I used to love its rain.
It turns me down,
for it can’t stand its pain.
It cries its last grey tears and hallow.

But now the dark is here as the grey is just remembered.
Its tears are icy cold;
its pain is now for me to hold;
as now, here, is the dark and cold
December.

[it seems your writing awakened some inspiration in my empty soul, even though not as inspiring as yours, i hope it keeps the continuity of...well...if not of life....at least of the year...;p]