Blightsong Posted February 16, 2019 Report Share Posted February 16, 2019 Wrote this and thought a few people here could relate to a couple aspects of this poem, let me know what you guys think! CALLIGRAPHY My father’s letters blot a supple canvas. Calligraphy soaked the pulp with beauty innate, intricately symbolic patterns intertwined. In the designs I see myself. Not scribbles in a thrown away note, but a note of discord’s complex clef, a cutting pitch within a careful lattice of music. Father’s cordial warmth is seen, not heard. Illustrated in the way his loving arms caress my mother. His brown limbs, a taboo, are tattooed with symbols of culture. He exists as one in discord as his dark skin contrasts my mother’s pale frame. Those he touches are his canvas of affection. I was born as one, my skin colored fawn. My father inscribed it, conferring love, culture, and a burning crimson passion for words. The pen’s strokes bleed through paper and into the next medium. My blood, his. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nathrangking Posted February 17, 2019 Report Share Posted February 17, 2019 Powerful stuff. As one who is a poet I can say that this is an effective storytelling method. Well done. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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