Wudang Mountains

by Larry Chamberlin   Jan 25, 2015


Those days were captured
on the postcards I sent home;
I thought I found my treasure
in the temples and ruins
of exotic lost communities.

Now all my walls are caving in
where I believed foundations
of the world were strongest;
leaves me hoping every wrong
is undone before I'm buried.

Ruins brought home to roost
robbed me of the surety
I expected of your presence;
help me mix the cement again
that will bind us once for all.

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  • 9 years ago

    by Sunshine

    Oh my GOD! Larry this is very touching! I did not see this poem coming up the way it did. It's very sensual, creative, and powerful.

    I am in love in the way you twisted and connected your thoughts, what you started this poem with, the post card and the resembles of treasures you found, the labeling of the place as lost communities, how powerful and awesome! It just clears the whole scene in my head !

    Your 2nd stanza makes me feel like writing this comment in upper case just to give you an idea how much I admired this poem and this verse!
    There is this tone of sorrow of contemplating in your life, as if a flash back and a flash for, from past to present to future, to what if and what will and what can you do before all is but a memory.

    robbed me of surety, I mean how did you come up with your phrases writing this poem ? very original! Law man!

    I am touched! thanks for writing this, really.

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