Laura Taylor

Clear Blue Air

by Laura Taylor

Thursday 6th October 2011 11:30 am

Withdraw

Recharge

No need to respond

No talking

No noise

Just silence

Purity found in clear blue air

Sunshine on freckles and wind in my hair

Blocking out

Blanketing

Breathing in deep

Clinging to emptiness

Found on the brink

To talk is to torture

You butcher my peace

Chatter incessantly

Shattering harmony

Feckless inanity

Endlessly clattering

tongue against teeth

Grinding and smashing

integrity, sanity,

peace and tranquility

Just going on and on, on and on, on and on

Just going on and won’t leave me alone

to withdraw

and recharge

with no need to respond

no talking

no noise

just silence and sunshine

and wind in my hair

and purity found in the clear blue air

madness solitude harmony

◄ Hasta Mañana

Nurikabe Nights ►

Comments

Mike Hilton

Wed 1st Feb 2012 15:03

Hi Laura, just been poem trawling and read your Clear Blue Air. Loved it, great stuff!

Mike

Jon

Sun 30th Oct 2011 12:08

Hey Laura!
Graet poem! Crafted for reading aloud. I can sense anger,frustration,and relief inthis one.
Nicely read too! x

chris yates

Mon 17th Oct 2011 14:52

you've captured how we all feel from time to time to just get away from IT all no talking, no noise ...bliss x

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Sat 15th Oct 2011 15:32

most excellent...nuff said !

Isobel

Fri 14th Oct 2011 07:53

I really didn't appreciate how good this was till I heard it performed. It's one of those poems you just have to hear. I would say that it is exceptional - for me the best serious poem I heard last night or that I've heard in a long time. x

Dave Bradley

Wed 12th Oct 2011 23:17

Elaine's got it with that word fierce - a sort of Trappist ferocity, which would never harm anyone. Great.

Elaine Booth

Tue 11th Oct 2011 19:07

Ah, lovely, Laura (and lovely Laura!)and also full of the fierce desire to protect your right to non-communciation - not to have to explain yourself, tell your story over and over. Oh yes I do know this so well. Wonderful suprise to see this poem and to see the date of it too! XXX

Jeff Dawson

Sat 8th Oct 2011 09:02

Great stuff Laura, not read your stuff for a while (or many others for that matter, always up to sumat!). Anyway, this is excellent and can imagine the rhythm you do it as I read, if you know what I mean!

Look forward to seeing you at tyldesley, be good to hear this or any for that matter, your performance poetry is top notch! Jeff X

Rachel Bond

Fri 7th Oct 2011 11:28

:-)

Laura Taylor

Fri 7th Oct 2011 09:40

Thanks all - and very funny Rach, I did as it goes ;p

Rachel Bond

Thu 6th Oct 2011 21:27

i like it.. it does convey the feeling well the incessant nature of disruption. cant help feeling the inherent contradiction of writing a poem like this..why not go out and stop going on, get the wind in your hair or something, im talking here ;)

i believe the secrets of meditation can only be found in practice, but the simplicity of the colour blue in this poem can be a release x

kath hewitt

Thu 6th Oct 2011 21:19

excellent

Francine

Thu 6th Oct 2011 20:03

You have captured the feeling well... So annoying - isn't it?!
'To talk is to torture
You butcher my peace'

When I go to the beach... : )
'just silence and sunshine
and wind in my hair
and purity found in the clear blue air'

shoeless

Thu 6th Oct 2011 19:23

Ann Foxglove

Thu 6th Oct 2011 19:14

Yes, somtimes it is just so much better to be alone! xx

Isobel

Thu 6th Oct 2011 18:18

This has a nice gallop to it - broken up a bit by the 'going on and on and on and on' bit. Perhaps that is the effect you were after. I get the feeling of a horse champing at the bit to get away. Won't go on anymore ;-) x

Lynn Dye

Thu 6th Oct 2011 11:40

Hey, I really like this one, Laura. Well written. x

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