If I Ask The Dead For Memories

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If I Ask The Dead For Memories

©dah

©dahlusion

This poem is in my first book, "In Forbidden Language"
published by Stillpoint Press, Spokane, Washington.

To purchase my book: go to lulu.com, go to "all products"
type in the title, click "Go". This will bring you to the purchase page.

contact: www.mystillpoint.net.

Thank you,
dah

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Stardrift commented on If I Ask The Dead For Memories

06-23-2010

Hey brother! Well, I can easily see why it won - it's another transcendental masterpiece. I was hoping from your title that you'd use the "If" mechanic, so very nice indeed! As someone else just mentioned, it is ever-so-slightly dark but, as usual, you know exactly how to balance it. Ephemeral write - 10!

dahlusion

06/24/2010

oh, my brother, my brother, welcome back! ,Really!! Looking forward...and thank you...

Tempy commented on If I Ask The Dead For Memories

04-09-2010

It’s like this: when the drifting sky turns its vital mirror and my living reflection disappears as death seals its vow across amazing again.

dahlusion

04/09/2010

thank you...

Skite commented on If I Ask The Dead For Memories

03-07-2010

I took my time to go slowly on this one, it's like soulfood from begin-end, I love the combo of your last 2 stanzas, amazing end.:) Eres grande entre los grandes..

dahlusion

03/08/2010

thank you...

cas25jas commented on If I Ask The Dead For Memories

03-07-2010

This poem is beautiful in that it brings out a bittersweet and calming emotion from within me as I read it. I love the fact that I could not read it fast enough, I did not want it to end and any sound going on around me was stifiled until I was finshed and I smiled.

dahlusion

03/07/2010

thank you...

Waterwizard2005 commented on If I Ask The Dead For Memories

01-27-2010

This is one of the best poems I have read so far. I like the content of it.

dahlusion

01/27/2010

A high compliment. Thank you!

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.

dahlusion’s Poems (122)

Title Comments
Title Comments
fragmented no. 2 2
Espresso Roma Café 1
Afternoon’s Impossible Heat 1
Spherical 1
Moths, Flame 1
To Say Goodbye Means Forgetting 1
"The Stillness Of Quiet Light" 2
The Vanishing Of Differences 2
Some god 3
Cattails 1
Invisible 3
The Persistence Of Nightmares 1
Gardener 4
Poison And Beauty 15
Moon Illusion 24
How We Live On Earth 13
Creation’s Splendid Spiritual Seduction 26
The Wings On Your Tongue 32
Walt Whitman, I Want To Grow Your Beard 102
The Witch-Hunters 26
A Meditation On Autumn 33
The Most Savory Raw Liquid 28
The Alluring Wet Odor 27
Snakes Passing Out Apples 33
I Dismissed The Notion Of Death 36
The Night’s Breath Is More Liquid 28
Strangers With Memories 35
Glorify The Morning Silently 21
I Slept Late Into A Well-Worn Rest 21
the afterglow twisted its complexion 21
The Rapturous Ignorance Of My Human Moment 29
I Wait For God's Lips 31
Your Human Honey 16
I Have Gathered Your Energy 20
Poem For A Red Rose 24
discarded pages 25
when you stir in your sleep 26
scars void of desire 22
I Feel Summer’s Juice 24
Imagine Not Going To War 101
Like A Snowflake in August 36
Upon The Tender Leaves Of Spring 34
A Blue Tear Frozen On Your Delicate Wing 47
Hiding Behind Mythology 27
Coaxing My Soul Into The Open 24
Wet Thoughts For Thirsty Minds 46
720 Full Moons 65
Sexual Opium 41
I Praise The Morning Loudly 99
Your Sultry Whispering 29
I Feel Nothing 32
The Refusal Of Dead Roses: an unfinished love 24
ripples and waves 20
Now The Rain 18
Male Angels 21
Female Angels 18
The Atmosphere’
s Vibration
26
Show Me Something Invisible 29
Motionlessly, Mouths Touching. 19
The Scent Of My Lover 22
3:AM INSOMNIA 19
Sorrow’s Dangerous Death-Blade 33
Melodious Flames Intertwined 39
Entranced By Your Voice 28
my mouth is on yours 24
Father, I Have Sinned... 66
The Wild Mud Of Sleep 20
i am 26
Let Us Make Peace 21
That Twilight Flame 18
A Wellness Of Spirit 15
Kisses Like Deep Fruit 41
Pulsing. 13
common sense is My Savior 39
Earthy and Hot 22
Once I Was Somewhere 22
The Only God I Need 22
2 Ten AM 27
If I Ask The Dead For Memories 92
Your Intimate Voice 27
I Am Bound To You 36
Animals With The Same Motion 15
There Was Constant Throbbing 22
A Prisoner Of Hope 15
My Perfect Goddess 15
Twilight Is A Sudden Sadness 71
when the hour strikes 16
Autumn's Meloncholic Motion 28
Autumn's Organic Rust 22
My Perfect Swan 33
The Politeness Of Blue Sky 12
Upon My Lips 20
A Sensualist Articulation (Prose) 14
The Fragrance of Fantasy 43
During Our Most Secret Hours 22
Under A Sky Of Dreamy Dreams 29
The Sultry Warmth 21
When I Looked Again 29
The Sea 44
the Creator is us 29
Blades Of Lightning 30
A Dove Is Bleeding 26
I Hear Vaporous Rain 16
My Perfect Dove 35
If You Were Chocolate 59
You Do Not Deserve 37
A Shawl Of Indigo Aura 26
Then The Tumblers Rust 88
There Is Arrogance 41
The Singing From My Soul 23
You 18
Do Not Remain… 12
A Pyramid Of Stars 8
Holding A Storm 12
You Have Finally Faded 20
A Gothic Tale 19
A Gasping Goddess 18
Hour After Hour 13
Your Naked Smell 24
Unknown To Me Then 10
I Bring Myself Back From A Dream 16
When You Disappear 26