Oh thank you
Oh thank you for my music-catchers,
curled gateway and tunnel to tiny bones
that rattle and articulate waves to
delicious-grokked interpretations of
Bach, Dylan, Mitchell, Mitski, Hiatt.
Oh thank you for my color-catchers,
rods and cones spin myriad rainbow
delineations and blends, stroked by
herds of domesticated and wild brushes
in hands of VanGogh, Kahlo, and Klint.
Oh thank you for my taste-catchers,
tiny buds that wait for tantalizing tidbits
to spit-wash first, them tumble across
in sweetsaltbittersoursavory dilections
of pie, popcorn, pickle, pistachio.
Oh thank you for my touch-catchers,
receptors and transmitters who perk
and tickle with soft warm, or prickle
with pointed pokes or pushy prods,
from waving orgasms to painful splinters.
Oh thank you for my smell-catchers,
tethered to taste, networked to memory
with vast library, accessed by choice
or through olfactory stumbles on paths,
from cinnamon to full port-a-potties.
Oh thank you for my soul-catchers,
wolf’s eyelashes* that drift realms,
dimensions so small, yet hold all,
gold-silver filaments that wend from
beginning-end, up-down, and again.
Oh thank you for continuum in sixsenses
that range out upon cosmoplasm of
unsubconsciousness in subjective gleanings.
It matters not positive nor negative judgment,
More existential appreciation of their gifts.
*”The Wolf’s Eyelash is a poem by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola-Estes
top image: “The Sense of Smell,” by Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Björn is today’s host for dVerse’ Meeting the Bar: Critique and Craft. Björn says:
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Wow, Lisa, that was different! I love the painting you chose to illustrate your poem, the catchers of all the senses, especially the ’color-catchers’:
‘rods and cones spin myriad rainbow
delineations and blends, stroked by
herds of domesticated and wild brushes’
and the ‘soul-catcher’.
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Kim, thanks. Bjorn said it would be fun and it was :) With the soul-catcher, you know how they it likes to wander away from time to time; it’s good to have those silver-gold filaments to lasso and haul it back if it strays too far.
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My pleasure, Lisa.
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I love the ode to all your senses… everything we may catch with those marvelous tools we have.
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Thanks much, Bjorn.
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Loved this!
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Thanks, Cheryl!
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Eell ..loved the tone! Was actually very interesting as well as great poetry!
sweetsaltbittersoursavory dilections
Haha!
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Ain, I wrote this off the cuff once the idea sparked. Glad you enjoyed it <3
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I loved this ode to all the senses., Li. What would we do without all those catchers?! 💙
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I don’t know and I don’t want to find out ;) Thanks, Merril!
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You’re welcome, Li. 😊
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Great tribute to all the senses that help us enjoy the world! I especially love “delicious-grokked.”
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haha! glad you liked that one, Nolcha.
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What a delight this is!!! You made catchers the best catch of them all.
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haha! Helen. Indeed!
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Beautifully written Li. Love all your made up words.
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So happy you enjoyed my poem, thanks.
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It’s my pleasure
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This poem is incredible, Lisa
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Robbie, very happy it resonates with you, thank you.
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I liked this…very positive and a tribute to artists of all types and the things we take for granted.
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Heck yes, Max. Life is a gift that we enjoy through our senses. And yes, we take life for granted a lot. Thank you <3
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I love this !
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Thanks, Chris :)
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A lovely ode to your senses. I really enjoyed the words you created.
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Maria, thank you.
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Extraordinary – kenning as synethesia of the arts.
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:) <3
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Thank goodness for the sixsenses, I love colour catchers Van Gogh and Turner, and now a new Soul-Catcher as I now listen to The Wolf’s Eyelash. Very much enjoyed;
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Di, so happy you enjoyed the poem and got a chance to hear The Wolf’s Eyelash. It was a transformative experience to read her book, and that poem of reinforcement in it, of a possibility of hope for a different future than the present I was in at the time.
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Really love how you wrote for the senses. We do take life for granted, too easily at times, until we lose one of those senses. Great write, Lisa!
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Too true, Carol. Thanks much.
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Ah, such wonderful gifts and so beautifully kenninged. nerve endings as catchers for the different senses is so creatively imagined and expressed. The poem also comes with a lovely splash of good feeling in general. Is seems to me you must be very much in touch with yourself.
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Sean, thank you for your wonderful comment. Glad you enjoyed the poem.
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This is so clever, Lisa! The kennings technique worked very well with your theme and intent.
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Thank you, Jennifer.
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