Jellyfish
By onemorething
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My mass of cells propels
dream-like, drifts on unconscious
ripples and primordial vibrations,
rising to cooler saline currents,
flinching from sharper, harder bodies,
responding from this hollow bell
of jelly, flickering beacons of luminescence
across my own transparency,
my gossamer vulnerability
streaming stinging Medusa hair
behind me, snaring the unguarded,
more alien than human,
unworldly, I exist.
Image from pixabay.
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I suppose sometimes people
I suppose sometimes people can seem transparent, beautiful and vulnerable but trail entangling snares. Rhiannon
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"flickering beacons of
"flickering beacons of luminescence"
that brings out the loneliness
eek a wasp has just landed on the screen!
I would not have guessed it was about insomnia. Though I share completey the feeling of vulnerability, don't feel I am drifting, more like crashing into things smashing bits off. So fascinating to read your account which brings beauty to what I find frighteningly destructive. The feeling of being alien, but existing never the less that is PERFECT. Talking about whether it matters if a reader gets what you are thinking about, this seems a great example? It made me think about jellyfish in a different way, it is very beautiful writing, so enjoyable in that respect, which would make me want to read it again in the future when I might have (if you hadn't said already) got that it was about insomnia? But i would have wanted to read it again because it is great writing, and maybe the feeling I had not got all there was out of it that I could have?
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Scary old things are
Scary old things are jellyfish. A bit of an invasion around the UK coast at the moment I understand. Enjoyed your poem. A surreal quality.
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Hi onemorething,
Hi onemorething,
I was so impressed by this poem that it inspired me to write a story. Just wanted to say thank you and to let you know.
Jenny.
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