My my

I like so many peoples work on here but if I had to choose one it would be; PaulDChambers...because he is a wordsmith!

It amazes me how he has such command of the written word.

I like many of his pieces but this one AMAZES me!

https://theprose.com/post/139743/hope-oh-hoopoe

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hope, oh hoopoe

Carved slices of inspiration from yellow Spanish sun

imbibing whirling words born of this hazy, lazy peace

the hoopoe hopes I hear his whooping cry of help

I hark it, friend, and eat it hungry, up with sprinkles

of warmth, the drizzles of sunkissed lizard skitters

and so I lasso swooping playful parakeets with

cerebral gossamer threads and ride high with them

flying aside their vivid green feathers in azure skies

shimmers fade gentle to dusk, chill night's creeping

bright blue turns to purples shot red, as if bruised by

hurt inflicted by busy locals numb to daily treasures

taken for granted, another brilliantine day ignored

resulting scars smear, besmirching sky’s toil and spark.

all whilst this solo man wrenches tentacle clutching

steely coils and clock springs lose grip, loosening and

unwinding to turn languid and lax. Oiled with wine

crushed of local grapes, the crux of nearby rich soil

fecund fruits that nourish earth with beauty, bounty

mediterranean. And sit I, among the whisper voices

distant dogs lamenting the strut of far stray cats

alone amid it all, invisible roots darting down

into ancient strata. By myself yet so full, fulfilled

love and life course through my veins, my carbon

spiked grey metal memories sluffed and cast asunder

break on rubble and bones of umbilical humdrums.

life flows by sonder, relinquishes, and settles at last.

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AND as I said there are so many to choose from but this particular piece really blew my mind, it is a work of art, so fluent, odd, strange, clever, it is just perfect.

Thank you Paul.