This is a poem about exploring ideas, it's more about the beauty of words and images than having a precise analytical meaning. Let it provoke your own thoughts,
Matter
Silk lavished skin embraced with the glowings of sun.
Cockles and muscles hauled along by bony ankles,
Swaying anchor at the bottom of the deep blue kiln.
Hesitating scent of serenity strewn across a lingering perfection.
Untouched by desolate hands, swaying trees through the heavens.
Branched fingers stretched holding the stars;
Painted beacons past the point where lateral ways cease.
Burnt out eyes of spun gold breathed across a creation.
Resting light dozing on shrivelled red leaves.
Surging power through the tranquil battle fields.
Gravestones stepped upon by the giant foot of lightning.
Humble hands of the bystanders age.
Some things lost to the reincarnation of youth,
New stones set skimming, before plunging, sunk below.
Unlived, unheard, unended.
Real.
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Imagery
The imagery of this poem is potentially strong. As a fellow poet, I would say that the images are clear and are not too extreme.
A great element of the poem is that it gradually becomes very evoking. It starts off passively as seen from "silk" and "swaying". These words reflect the tranquility that matter offers. However, as the poem continues, it becomes a fit of tyranny. Diction like "breathed", "surging power" and "giant foot of lightning" reveals that matter is not so tranquil anymore, in fact, it is described by the poet, to be destruction as well.
The poem has an exceptional end which I greatly appreciate. When the poet says "new stones set skimming", he perhaps wants tos how that the fragments of life can soar and be relaxed. However, life can "plunge" and "sink" below because of the unfathomable matter in life. This, greatly reflects the unpredictable world we are living in - terrorism, civil wars, strife, natural disasters.
The poet reveals that the negativity of life when he uses the words "unlived", "unheard" and "unended". These words contain the prefix "un". OTher words such as unpredictable, unachievable, unacceptable, unreached, undermine, are all negative words that contain "un".
Hence, the poem is greatly written because it not uses great imagery, but evokes 21st century issues well.
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