Mother, Welcome Me Home

[Dark Muse]

Mother, Welcome Me Home

Still nights
like still waters
the stillness of my mind
~ripples of thought~

Be still my heart
in the maternal dark
(paintings in the cave)
warm embrace
enshrouds me.

Born of soil
to soil return.

[dafydd manton]

This is a gorgeously enigmatic piece, especially reference to the painings, and I just love it. it has a lovely ethereal quality that I wish I could employ. Nice!!

[Dark Muse]

Thank you very much, it is a bit of an experimental work, and it is made up of several different fragemented ideas that are working together.

[Delta40]

your use of 'still' is interesting.

I'm still fantasising about smothering my own child
I'm still caught in this web of motherhood
there is still no exit sign ahead

[Dark Muse]

Thank you! I wanted to reflect these different ideas of stillness and how they mirror each other and how they can be interleated. It creates an idea of a sort of aboslute calmness which at times can in fact border upon the unsettling.

[MANICHAEAN]

Sublime.

Your sensitivity in the use of words in poems such as this never ceases to amaze me.

Best regards
M.

[Dark Muse]

Thank you!

[hillwalker]

I love this DM because there are so many avenues one can explore to interpret what you have written.... much more subtle than some of your darker pieces if you don't mind me saying.

For some reason v2 put me in mind of the maternal womb - not necessarily a place of comfort in this instance, especially given the final two lines of the poem. Evisceral writing.

H

[Dark Muse]

I love this DM because there are so many avenues one can explore to interpret what you have written.... much more subtle than some of your darker pieces if you don't mind me saying.

For some reason v2 put me in mind of the maternal womb - not necessarily a place of comfort in this instance, especially given the final two lines of the poem. Evisceral writing.

H

Though this poem is not truly about any one thing, you are quite right about the allusions which this poem makes to the womb.