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Overshoulder

I feel its strangeness on my back
Chillingly vast
A preternatural pressure
On the corner of my mind
A truth or universal secret
Just beyond the paper-skin
Of this gorgeous mundane life
Perhaps out there behind
The vapour-veils of nebulae
An entity at rest
In the hidden dark
Of Saturn moon.
I feel it might be soon:
But what?
Existentialcheat-notes
A key to what it all means
A glimpse of towering fires
Powering the universal engine
Combustion of possibility
And the blazing seeds of souls...

Agh! This half-remembered thing!
Faded profundity!
Like God whispered
A mystery in my sleep
Can't shake it nor wake it.
In a mind this small
I have one part of a
Billion-pieced jigsaw
Showing sky or breath.

Whatever this is,
It scales me to pretty dust.
I sense it overshoulder
Like deities or demons
Eyes watching
Unseen but just a touch beyond.
Eerie but uplifting
A lullaby for banshees.
Tell me I am not alone...
Say you feel it too
Then you and I can stand
Hand in hand
On the edge of forever.

wolfie

@wolfie

The Octoberman. All I need is a bottle of Talisker, a keyboard and you. Facebook: Nikarkham www.nikarkham.co.uk

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Eerily beautiful sir 😊 a clean shot once again

Hello again :-) got an odd feeling. Not even words are working to explain it. Frustrating. Thanks for sharing in my strangeness :-)

I agree with @Delilah Loved itπŸ’™

@ashhkat thanks

The last question isn't a rhetorical one. Does anyone else feel strange tonight. I'm not given to completely random feelings like this... Like something we're supposed to know. Lol. Sound like a fruitcake

Great work. Even if I don't fully understand it lol I often get weird feelings like this

@AnonLifeliver that's exactly the point. Got this strange sense of something 'beyond' today. Thanks for the support :-)

And this is why I've missed you....your words get me thinking....I'm feeling odd tonight...just thought it was tiredness...but feeling a tad melancholy which isn't like me...who's the fruit loop now my lovely?....an interesting write 😏😏😏😏😏

A brilliant write, and I totally get the feeling your talking about although I'm not feeling it tonight πŸ’ž

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I feel it to😘 ancient memories. Really good write βœ¨πŸ‘πŸ‘βœ¨

I love this, especially the ending. So beautiful 😌

To answer the question you posed at the end, I always feel like that especially when the moon is nearing full. I imagine that's an even stronger effect for you wolf bloods.@AnonLifeliver

@AnonLifeliver dammit, a misfire.

@AnonLifeliver Dammit, another misfire. I was going to say, this poem reminds me somewhat of 2001, A Space Oddessey, which was also enigmatic and hard to understand. And that's a total compliment, @wolfie .

To answer your question it's the government! They're covering up their conspiracies!! Haha πŸ˜‰

A deep, thought provoking piece. I love it, more please!

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