the stills

marianna marais 1954 (capetown)



summon the stills
listen to your silent self

shed your outer veil

become the absence
untie the knots in your meandering mind
colour the light with strokes of wisdom
remnants flow through your fingers
simply unravelling your gift of resistance
awareness hangs behind your thoughts
raging fires burn and heal
let your story nourish you

remix your shattered heart

choices voices leave you alone
hours freeze in your echoes
poised words shred themselves
drifting as you grasp the waves
re arrange your dusty soul
rayless pathless crackled crash
old identities are aflare
revealing who you really are

About this poem

this is about peeling my layers facing the shadows to find my light revealing myself unmasked !!!

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Submitted by marieanna.marais on November 30, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XX X AXXXAXXX X XXXXXXBB
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 599
Words 101
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 1, 8, 1, 8

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