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Accelerating Into the Curve
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dVerse Poets Pub Prompt : Meeting the Bar: Impressionistic Writing –
hosted by Claudia Schoenfeld
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claudia, traveling about europe (where she lives) happened on an impressionist exhibit and was inspired for the “meeting the bar” prompt featured this week
besides the absolutely stunning monet featured at the top of the page, which i believe i saw once, or a variation of it, in a converted museum-house in paris, she wrote this, which is thought was perfectly on :
But details weren’t their focus anyway, it was the mood of a moment, a feeling, fleeting, moving. Monet once said “For me a landscape does not exist in itself, it changes every moment in appearance, but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life.”
it hard enough doing approximate justice visually to the impressionist legacy, much less verbally with words, but to feel inspired to do one’s own “take” on our own personal moments, here and now in our own unique times, is justification enough i believe 😉
if you can, stop by and see the full prompt, and even more enticing, the myriad poetic responses one can enjoy, as a reader a writer a painter a lover and simply curious 😉
best wishes everyone!
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Accelerating Into the Curve
when i was twelve
pressing my bike
round and down
the curve from
my house
i
felt the pebbles
nudge the back
tire
but i held on
barely
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when i was twenty
gunning the gas
little by little
feeling the
four
wheels under me spin-
turning the corners
i
felt the shift of the weight
of the car
pulling out from under
me
but i held on
slowly
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when i was nearly thirty
my young son beside
me
inside
the great american scream
machine
the
roller coaster bursting
a dip a rise and a turn
back down
the mountain of
track
we both held on
dearly
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and now having past
sixty
reaching the
time
when i can settle and do
what i’d like
ha ha
i
feel myself
leaning a shoulder into the
wind
glancing back at what went by
squeezing my time
into stop-watch
stop-action
moments
my life
my heart my hands
smiling
accelerating into the last curve
fully
© 2012 felipe adan lerma
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This is just wonderful. I want to read your novella, when I get some time. But this one terrifically sweet. k.
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thanks so much k! means a lot to me 😉
yeah, my novella includes some issues that cover a scope of time too, but in prose of course
i’ve wanted to have it priced for free, and kobo and smashwords have so far, but i decided to just post it online for people without readers or not registered with one of the online book sellers
the novella is, i think, slower to begin with, but builds; anyway, thanks again so much 😉
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i like the stop action moments of life, compared to accelerating the curve.totally opposites. made me think of Newton’s Laws of Motions. F=ma for the acceleration and stop action for the inertia (something no in motion will stay that way without a force chancing it). Life is Newton’s Laws!!
foam
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i like both, and think both are integral parts of life
this poem obviously, as per the title, focusses on the curve 😉
and, ironically, in the placing of the movement in those curves i’ve experienced in life so far, kinda create a stop action moment – part of the magic of art i think
thank you so much for your comment, it really made me think about this a little deeper
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We baby boomers can really take things to another level, can’t we? Each time it’s a bit different but still the same effort behind it ..
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that’s exactly it!
“Each time it’s a bit different but still the same effort behind it ..” perfectly said 😉
and really like your “about me” katy, left side of your site’s pages – a very interesting lady it appears 😉
thanks so much!
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my life
my heart my hands
smiling
accelerating into the last curve
fully….this is great… it’s good to lean in with a thankful heart… there’s so much joy and wisdom in this one felipe
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so glad you liked this claudia 😉
wasn’t sure why, but just had to have my hands in on the heart’s usual “territory” 😉
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Just Lovely! You didn’t mention the age under 12… I bet your mother was very busy watching you! 🙂
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oh yes 😉 word is i was the “worst” the six (and the oldest), into everything! 😉 glad you enjoyed!
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This is really excellent! I enjoyed it tremendously.
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thanks so much mama zen 😉
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Applause, standing ovation, encore!
I love the parallels joined by the motion, the sensation of thrill, a memory you will recognize and can reach for whether it is in your mind an body or only in your body. There is no possibility of losing this love, this spark. I wish that for you, who have made me–in an instant–scan my life to see if I have something so similarly multi-dimensional and satisfying.
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thrilled that you liked it so much, and even more so that you felt compelled to scan your own rich history –
you won’t but help but have much much much you can claim and put into your work –
bet some of that will involved austin too 😉
i’ve a post of a painting i did called “austin at night” – one of my favs
thank so much susan 😉
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smiles…love the little glimpses into your life…the curves…and i hope that last one goes getly for you but still carries the same bit of a thrill…smiles….
and hey i wrote a sportd poem for you tonight…smiles.
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i hope it goes gently thrillingly 😉
your sports poem is a hoot! those boys are getting memories they’ll be so glad they can never get rid of 😉
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Felipe, love this (being on the far side of 60. One thing that really struck me was how you incorporated the kinesthetic as a sensory detail. Great!!!
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now is that “far” like 61, or “far” like 69 😉 just kidding, no need to answer! 😉
touch and movement, felt before sound was a sound and was first a vibration running through us
thanks so much victoria 😉
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Awesome write, Adan! I can relate to all those times and especially to now!
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i bet you can! 😉 thanks so much charles 😉
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