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Dying Changes Everything--

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Dying Changes Everything

Learning to speak Renoir sunsets
with Cézannese grammar,
waking eternally, the short sleep past,
to sunrises heralding the new Jerusalem,

the citrus tang of always young
immersed
in the verve of always life.

Sailing into the west,
the sun also sets, finds its light refracted
through tears shed from ducts of clay.

Heaven--
where synaesthesia
atones for the laws of physics.
Taste the thirsty amber-pink
soaking behind your eyelids,

melted reds and oranges
osmosing into your fingertips
henceforth and forever,
amen.
UPDATE submitted to #LITplease's poetry prompt 6: Verge of Dying.

2.0 moved to scraps.

The 13-word poem I recently submitted left me feeling like there was much more I wanted to say on the subject (although, the idea of art and synaesthesia being the laws governing the afterlife has already been done, and marvelously, in What Dreams May Come). Preview image is Renoir's "Sunset at Sea."
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elvesrock's avatar
Oh, this is a very good poem. I especially like the part about "the citrus tang of always young" and the "taste the thristy amber-pink/soaking behind your eyelids"

Fun fact~ LSD can bring on artificial synesthesia