Poetry: From Mystic Sands
Come my beloved
rest long within
the ethereal reaches
of my haven
within my sanctuary
rest your wickedly disconsolate
mind and so lay in repose
absolve yourself in shadows
cast for you
renew yourself in
the mist of my creation.
Crush me with your suffering
and your broken dreams
and your histories and your
deadliest deceptions
those cunning slayers of
all your hopes
so as I cast spells from
my dying contemplations
my terrible meditations
far West
I can obliterate them
annihilate their affect
vanquish their theme.
Envelope me in your angst
in your sorrow and your grief
as I lay dying
behind black embers
buried in the debris
of my decaying magic
ignite my cold conjurings
into vivid imaginations
into vibrant vagrancies
impress upon me
your utter depravities!
Suffocate me with
your inglorious sufferings
that I might ever
fixate on them
ruminate their demise
fashion my incantations
while I sleep
in the furthest
reaches of my
dread desolate world
while I sleep
in my secret realm
that ancient city
forged from mystic sands
which drift far and wide
far beyond the sphere of
creations glorious cosmos.
One of the more romantic poems I have read in some time. You do gloom well.
Why thank you very much. The speaker is willing to do whatever it takes to end the misery of the lover. I wanted to elicit strong emotions by over drsmatizing the misery and the irony is by aborbingvall that misery, the magician is able to find his own redemption through that loving sacrifice
i got that – but also that he was harnessing her energy to meet his own needs – so it was a mutually beneficial relationship. I really liked all the elements you put together.
Thanks, out of all the ones I’ve posted here this one is in the top 5 I think
i tend to continue reading if the first line gets me and i like the simple openings like this one had. good job!
Thanks very much. Now I’ll have to keep that in mind. Csnbi ask you to read one that I now care so much what you might think of it? I’m a little embarrassed to ask, but I haven’t gotten feedback at the level I had hoped, and it’s my favorite
sure! But I am really not an expert on anything just a mixed up bunch of thoughts – but I love reading yours – which one is it again? and also because you asked nicely. it’s a favourite? ok I will be careful with it.
Oh no, I can tell your mind is a lovely, valuable thing and I want to tap it. It’s quite long I just realized. I am supremely proud that each line ends precisely as the other. To the period! Don’t know why I did thst, but it’s OCD precision lol. Here. https://justruminating.blog/2016/11/24/haven-of-veneration/
please n more nice things – i have a reputation to maintain – sad and gloomy and not lovely at all. Give me a moment and I will get to it, promise.
Well, you’ll just have to leave that at the door. Ask anyone, I can’t help but be loving, adoring, supportivr, abrasive, pointed. I would never be mean by the way. But a woman was mean to me a month ago and oh boy the poem that generated😨I’ll tell you the title someday
I have to retire now. I hope you take good care. It’s 1am and I’ve got to wake at 6am. No one ever keeps me up late but you, dear girl, did just that. Goodnight!
good night and we shall speak again – sent you an email btw – read it when you wake at 6am! its afternoon here on the equator.
Hmmm, no comments on Secrets Untold and Relegate Me, lol. I know they are a bit sexually charged, I like this genre as well. And I’m just teasing, I don’t need everything commented on, just noticed your silence on this subject
you stalking my likes! I am a private person doesn’t mean I am not a passionate person – just saying. I liked it but I was afraid of saying anything. But I liked it, yes I said it!
Additional rule, don’t be afraid and no I’m not stalking your likes lol. Just paying attention. You can be yourself around me. I don’t judge. I encourage
ok got the rules! and like the no judging.
I’ll read your stuff tomorrow, for now here’s a small gift https://justruminatingblog.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/wp-1487398860744.jpg
Thank you!For me? This is really pretty, is it from where you live? It’s ok if you don’t want to say, but there’s snow everywhere! so pretty. thank you again.
Yes, it’s the bushes out in the smoke area. My life is an open book. I don’t hold back anything. Only my childhood trauma has been untapped; but it’s coming
i read write a bit today about your life that you so openly and courageously share and my heart is still aching from the reading – hence the offer for a hug – i cannot imagine someone being so mean, it just felt that you needed something else than just words – thats all. childhood trauma? oh!
Oh yes
I love it good job, I have a scientific blog of my own and I just love to read materials just as mine, that’s great work here. I have so much to learn from the others and improve my blog. Thanks in advance for the lovely article and I will confess that I am in love with your blog.
Well, Anthony, I do appreciate your sentiment. Mystic Sands is, of course, a poem. It is also by no means scientific. As to your comment that you are in love with my blog, I am not sure that would apply since you only read one item of mine, which is a poem and hardly scientific.
Beautifully written – really evokes such vivid imagery.
Thanks very much!
What a story behind these words! so good!
Thank you so much, I appreciate the kind words
Brilliant writing Rob!
Thanks so much, means a lot!
Wow Rob!
Really loved:
“rest your wickedly disconsolate
mind and so lay in repose
absolve yourself in shadows
cast for you
renew yourself in
the mist of my creation”
Cool, cool stuff
Thanks christine!
Came to read it again . It’s so good.
Thanks Yasmine, you’re the best!
The emotions this evoked in me are complex and compelling… Initially, I felt “oh man, I wish I could find a guy that got me like this…” then it was “oh man…this is exactly why everything always felt screwed up” So much feels natural and right, even though realistically, you turned poison into poetry. I can say, “oh it’s so dark”, but in truth, I feel hope. I feel possibility. When pain can be painted into the masterpiece you created, the beauty of your life has assuredly just begun. You created a true yin and yang, deeply moving and powerful. Thank you for this, I needed it today!
You are way too kind! It is meant to be the ultimate expression of one loving another so much that he is willing to absorb her entirety and take all his magic to turn it into nothingness do that only peace and love remain, and in so doing the irony is that his own darkness is removed as well…in case you were curious lol. You pretty much got it
🙂 I think the spin I gave that took me on a slight tangent was knowing, deeply, that I must be secure in myself or the darkness would consume – not create. The selflessness you describe is so beautiful, but hinges on the fact that you must have self in order to be selfless. That’s how you made me think and I LOVED that 🙂
Again I do appreciate that not only do you find my deep meanings, and get them, but that you care enough to make me feel special about it, and that means so much to me, thank you. That you get something from my work affected immeasurably, keeps me writing
What a beautiful selfless expression full of sacrifice but shared that it is anything but that in the theme of ‘love’.
Reblogged this on RamJet Poetry and commented:
Incredible imagery from Rob
Wow, thank you so much for reblogging, I’m blessed
Outstanding poem. Dark and vain and sad and gloriously vast
Thanks so much! Humbled by praise from you for sure
You outdone yourself with this one Robbie. It’s a masterpiece.the kinda poetry I die to read. This is like together and forever.
Mmm, so glad you liked it Yasmine.
Darkly beautiful. Love the flow of words like suffocate by suffering… 💜
Thank you Neg. One of my few poems I worked over many revisions. Usually I just try to get them posted too quickly without revision. I chose each word, each meaning, each image, very carefully. Thank you for your appreciation
I think it’s possible to overthink sometimes, too. But in this case, you’re carefully chosen words paint an intricate picture. Love it!
So glad you do! You’re right, that’s why I don’t often revise. Great point
Robert…sigh…I love this. I’m reading it over and over…and it unveils something new each time. Simply mesmerizing. 💙
I’m glad you’re getting the layers, like blankets to warm you when the world is a dark, cold, and lonely place
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