[stylist] poem submission

[Jacobson, Shawn D]

Robert

This is what I sent to Magnets and Ladders; you've seen it pretty much before (I sent it out to the group earlier this year), but here it is again.

Shawn

The Kraken at Sunset
by Shawn Jacobson

The track before us
ephemeral as faerie
we will travel soon.

The part in evening shadows dwindles below.
Rattling, cricking, clanking we ascend past lights beginning to glow.
The tension ratchets up as we climb; the top grows near.
And then we reach the top the world below us, a short drop, turn, and....

In a mystery
of motion and gravity
the world turns round us.

Dropping into the loop we turn and roll following the faerie track.
Twisting fast, no time for perspective just motion ever changing.
With joy and fear we face the next decent.
In constraints yet free we soar back to the sky.
Now underground now flung high in the air,
then through a cave and out to a twisting roll
and finally we slow and stop.  We're at the end.

Joy and fear's abode
we salute you and travel
to new attractions.


-----Original Message-----
From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Robert Leslie Newman
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 9:53 AM
To: 'Writer's Division Mailing List'
Subject: [stylist] poem submission

Shawn

MMM, it will be interesting to see what you sent them!

As good as you were showing us on the type of poetry you could create ---
the odds would be darn good that someone would want to publish your stuff
(I'm not even a math guy like you and I sure saw the odds were in your
favor).




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