In The Blank Spaces

The folders are stacked as high as you are tall, 

A monument not yet worthy of you 

Filled to bursting.

Each manilla leaf cradles inept dedications

and

heartfelt scrawls.

Not even my best writing does you any justice...

 

The words for your fragrant energies have not been devised yet.

I struggle to find the phonics or ideology to encompass you.

 

By your name there are many others 

By your mesmorising presence there is but one 

Thus, your name does you no service.

 

Exquisite being

embraced by an unfathomable beauty 

Infinitely facinating essence,

a halo upon a halo,

Nothing shines brighter

or brings me to life.


Yet paradoxically,

I sit back carving ideas of you with nothing but a pen

And a deep sense of inadequacy.

 

You are more than any fathomable words.

An unwritten language,

You are better described in the blank spaces 

Yet to be penned.

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S74RW4RD's picture

The verbal skill in this poem

The verbal skill in this poem is exquisitely deployed; a beautifuland powerful evocation.


Starward

SSmoothie's picture

Wow! I just read this! How

Wow! I just read this! How did I miss it? Exquisite  where are you? I need to dive into your universe and delve into your atmosphere x hugss 


Don't let any one shake your dream stars from your eyes, lest your soul Come away with them! -SS    

"Well, it's love, but not as we know it."

Sassylass's picture

Deep

humble,talented.

im following you.

let the ink flow,Koko~


Poetry is passion,imagination & soul mixing together....

Words

 

INKSTAIN's picture

Again koko many thanks 

Again Kokopoet, many thanks 

lizardking's picture

this is great

i often find words fail me, that saying nothing at all is more adequate, yet my inner being wants to cry out. magnificent

INKSTAIN's picture

Thank you very much. Yes the

Thank you very much. Yes the blank spaces hold all the potential in the world but as soon as we fill them we limit them into some sort of mold. 

allets's picture

Enjoyed

Good write, love the reach for the right words. - Stella - xoxox


 

 

INKSTAIN's picture

Ah, will they ever come?

Ah, will they ever come? Perhaps we must invent a few.

tallsquirrelgirl's picture

Wow

I think what makes this so powerful is that most of us understand it...people can't be written down. loved "carving ideas of you," vivid and painful in a good way!


*tallsquirrelgirl* she feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS ~henry james

INKSTAIN's picture

Yes the essence, charisma,

Yes the essence, charisma, and experience of that person is not something you capture with words.

"Je ne sais quoi"