{"id":3204,"date":"2018-12-19T13:30:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T13:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=3204"},"modified":"2018-12-19T13:30:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T13:30:06","slug":"two-poems-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2018\/12\/19\/two-poems-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"

All the while the windows wait for no one<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

While there were those who climbed,<\/p>\n

It was only you who knew the spaces through the ladders.<\/p>\n

The dent of shadows<\/p>\n

Upon the tumbling walls.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

When the door is too small to walk through<\/p>\n

And the gate shifts at your hip.<\/p>\n

All the while the windows wait for no one.<\/p>\n

Like miniature hats.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Where idle hope feasts on the cavities of the rooms<\/p>\n

As soaring beginnings roar.<\/p>\n

Where the seamless thread that shapes your brow<\/p>\n

Falls hollow into your skin.<\/p>\n

As the walls of the dolls\u2019 house<\/p>\n

Can no longer keep you in.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

*******<\/p>\n

I am not\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I am not just around the corner,<\/p>\n

Or held in the palm of your hand,<\/p>\n

like a scent escaping the rose.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I am not fully heard in the howl of the gulls,<\/p>\n

Or in a scattering of dandelions raw through the air,<\/p>\n

like condensed smoke.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I am not in the taste of the salt of seawater,<\/p>\n

Whose splash is seeped into your skin.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I am not to be touched through your feet on the grass,<\/p>\n

Or in the chill of the heat of your summer\u2019s loss.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I do not scream through the silence of the stars,<\/p>\n

I am not hounded by your tears<\/p>\n

Or held in the rubble of your fingertips.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I am not in the sworn word that returns to your mind,<\/p>\n

As sword or scythe through the kind air.<\/p>\n

If you see me in the shadows I am not there.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I am far closer than all of this.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Paul Downes\u2019 poetry has been published in the\u00a0Wallace Stevens\u00a0Journal\u00a0and\u00a0EUR\/OPEN. He has also published books and journal articles\u00a0in areas of philosophy, psychology, education, law, anthropology and social policy and has given keynote lectures and invited presentations in 29 countries.\u00a0His books include,\u00a0The Primordial Dance: Concentric and Diametric Spaces in the Unconscious World\u00a0(2012),\u00a0Inclusion of the Other: Concentric Space as a Life Principle Beyond Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Ricoeur\u00a0(Routledge, forthcoming 2019).\u00a0He is Associate Professor of\u00a0Psychology, School of Human Development, Dublin City University, Ireland.<\/em><\/p>\n

Did you know that Cassandra Voices has just published a print annual containing our best articles, stories, poems and photography from 2018? It\u2019s a big book! To find out where you can purchase it, or order it, email admin@cassandravoices.com<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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