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Melinda Chambers - In This Silence
The poetry of Melinda Chambers springing mostly from the theme "And this is how a heart breaks" as well as the occasional photo from Australia's Mornington Peninsula
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It Ends In Silence
2008-01-09 13:50:28
This is for the year spent
chasing rainbows,
teasing leprechauns into blurting their secrets.
This is for the year which awakened
giggles
from a four year old girl
who never suspected a smile could live
beneath all of those muffled screams.
This is for the year which saw
mischievous brats
sneak up on the wicked witch of the west
as she slept
and shave off all her [...] ...
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Five Months
2007-12-28 15:17:56
My brilliant denial.
I didn’t recognise you there
masked in sweat and smiles.
The echoing moans and shuddering sighs,
I mistook you for a happening thing,
for a flower opening,
for a rainforest garden growing.
My brilliant denial.
I didn’t see you coming.
I was so busy making memories for myself
so enthralled by his artistry;
the beauty of him still soaking into me
wrapping me up [...] ...
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Dear Santa
2007-12-17 04:16:23
(and does ‘good at it’ get me any points??)
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Crime Against Passion
2007-12-10 09:24:14
“It doesn’t make sense”
There are no other sounds in my mind
but these.
The last time I saw you,
truly saw you
your face was but an inch from mine,
leaning to spill breath into my mouth
in a tumble of gasps and sighs and moans.
Your [...] ...
Crime
Passion
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I wish I could blame the season…
2007-12-09 21:00:45
“Tis the season to be jolly…
falalalalalalalaaaaaaaaah”
Really? Granted, I’ve been slumming it in the lower regions of hell for quite some time now but, after reading around a bit, it seems I may be contagious Arcadia’s page is offering a possible solution here which made me smile for a moment.
And that’s about how long I [...] ...
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I Am Not Religious. Or Am I?
2007-09-14 00:24:40
Perhaps I have resolved
to make this a year of Lent
to attempt some form of purity
in the absence of things.
Your hands will have been
the last to touch me
your mouth
the last to meet mine
I will know no nakedness
other than my own
and I will find satisfaction
in the bones rising to the surface
as my skin falls away.
I will fast
and [...] ...
Religious
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You’re Good For My Health
2007-09-14 00:12:00
I have resumed linking
smoke rings
a daisy chain of blue grey silver
one after one after another.
I have resumed tying
verbs with conjunctions with adjectives with nouns
a faerie ring with a mirror pool
trying to capture your reflection
cigarette in my left
pen in my right
I have nothing better to do with my hands
in your absence.
3:06am Thursday
7.March.2002
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Health
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Good Fight - Juvita, Joel and Cassie - Debut Album Launch!
2007-09-13 23:14:44
I’ve been meaning to write up something about these guys for ages. Right now, given the hour (6:45am and still awake), I’m going to be somewhat lazy and simply cut and paste the promo I did for them on their MySpace page. Hopefully, I’ll have a proper review of both their album and the launch [...] ...
Album
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Appassionato
2007-09-03 02:58:09
We move together
adagio
molasses kisses tidal wave
down his chin
down his chest
down
His tongue slips out
furtively
dolce
it laps up
the aftermath
Andante
his hands pour across me
trickle down
allegretto
Vivace
the smile, the breath,
the heartbeat
His fingers dance
pianissimo
my ribs as fretboard
my ribs as piano.
Maestro, play me again
(da capo)
Third movement
legato
slow swirling waltz
of breath and body
diminuendo
the slowing gasps, the whispers,
the heartbeat
lento
He doesn’t use sheet music.
He plays by heart.
5:06pm [...] ...
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Reckless
2007-09-03 02:55:48
I’m six years old and you hand me a loaded rifle.
That’s what this is, isn’t it?
Your talk of love?
Don’t you know how dangerous this is?
I might hurt myself.
I’ll almost certainly hurt you.
What wild impulse had you handing over such power
to this clumsy child?
Why not have [...] ...
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Headache
2007-07-10 18:22:15
I live now
with my head in my hands
clutching it to me
as though it would otherwise roll away.
I hold it
manically
as a child strangleholds
a kitten
giving it no choice
but to grab back.
I pound this head
with my fists
Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!
I am surprised at the pain of it.
I rub the temples
trying to raise the genie
I am certain is imprisoned within.
To [...] ...
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Woman-Earth
2007-07-10 11:36:16
I, with open arms, embrace
Their prescient madness,
Their maps of consequence
I embrace all, open armed.
They build their dream castles,
Their fairylands,
Their Never~Nevers
Knowing
From dust
To Dust
Such erections inevitably
come crashing down
come
to nothing.
They insist on building their wonders
upon my fault lines.
They tunnel paradise
through my veins
Their Utopias
are not well-thought out
They do not understand
an ideal
by definition
is almost certainly
beyond their grasp.
They lay their blame
at [...] ...
Earth
Woman
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Full Moon
2007-07-10 11:30:00
Merely testing the effectiveness of a program add-in…… but I do LOVE this photo!
Taken through the trees in the backyard on a less than perfect camera, it didn’t come out too badly!
Given how many people do searches for photographs of the full moon - and just for Najma - I thought I’d add an [...] ...
Moon
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Impossible Equations
2007-06-27 07:28:02
I.
We are
comforted
by the distance
geography imposes,
longitude and latitude
to blame
for walls, barb wire, fortresses and moats.
From a satellite’s perspective
an observer would agree
but looking at things
from behind these eyes
I know
that even if you were inside me
I could still keep you out.
Distance
can be measured in inches
just as easily as in miles
and when a map gives you a scale ~
1 [...] ...
Impossible
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Home II
2007-06-27 07:19:50
Photo taken on the 3rd of October, 2006 at Mills Beach in Mornington, just a few minutes further along The Esplanade from my house.
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Home
2007-06-19 03:51:13
This was taken on the 29th of December, 2005 from the second lookout up on Arthurs Seat on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia. One of my favourite places to go to clear my head. I live up around past that second protusion, north of Arthurs Seat.
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Simple Physics, Lesson II
2007-06-18 08:29:09
Inspiration only ever seems to find me
when I’m busy changing the sheets
and knowing I won’t need to be doing that again
any time soon
I find myself caught
between relief
and anxiety,
mired in love
for love’s sake alone.
That’s where it leaves me at time,
alone,
and that’s how I handle it best ~
from a distance,
in hindsight.
I am getting closer
every moment
to the glass [...] ...
Lesson
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Letting You Go Again And Again And Again
2007-06-12 08:48:43
Such violent beauty
I am scared.
I want you the way others crave oblivion
I want to know you as intimately
as nicotine
inhale and spread your addiction to every receptor.
I am crazed with longing
a fractured vase poorly mended
Something seeps through the cracks
smoke and fire
I am all embers
an oil burner bleeding light and incense.
I am incensed.
You are cold.
Pop your feet [...] ...
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Charming, But Single
2007-06-11 21:08:16
I’ve just come across Charming But Single’s site and her post Professionalism Is The Key To Attracting Decent Suitors. In it, there’s a letter written to a man in the style of a follow up missive for a job interview. It reminded me of fox’s friend and her questionnaire to be filled out before the [...] ...
Single
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Mustn’t Cry Out
2007-06-10 19:19:25
In ecstasy or pain. I’m loving you as quietly as I can.
It is difficult.
The only days your name does not pass my lips
are those when I do not speak at all.
Well, that is inaccurate.
On those days when I have not met face
to face
with anyone,
I have met you in dream,
hands and fingers
drawing your name from me [...] ...
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Routed
2007-06-10 16:27:56
Science fiction 1930:
by the year 2000 all monotonous, repetitive labour
will be performed by robots
freeing humanity to follow paths
of higher, more subtle learning.
The writers were so wrong,
the prophets, so right
only there is no humanity left
to appreciate it.
The Industrial Revolution
children chained to machinery
from sun up
to sun down
and most of the hours left over.
Slave labour: so cruel
dehumanising.
We’re protected [...] ...
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Hermit
2007-06-08 20:08:18
I have taken my hands
from your skin
and tied them behind my back
in cutting restraint.
Your mouth full of honey and roses
has bequeathed me bitterest gall
and the thorns which prick at you
from my cynical smile.
This is what I have chosen
to take from you.
I have drawn in
behind the curtain
peering furtively through the cracks
believing you will not see me
as [...] ...
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Dejection
2007-06-06 16:51:39
The writing comes less easily now.
I am finding it harder and harder to find
you in amongst these words.
Whether I wish it or not
it takes two people to write a love poem
~ writer and subject
and you’re not here to hold up your end
of the conversation
and talking to myself
I become nothing more than a lament.
You let go [...] ...
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