Birthdays

POSTED IN reading poetry, Stories January 17, 2015

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Birthdays

I’ll bake tonight a rounded cake
to celebrate the wish I make
I’ll lit my candles with the Moon
and let them glow in nightly gloom.

I wish myself a better year,
to feel and see what I can’t hear,
and as a snake sheds its own skin
I’d like to shed my old chagrin.

In darkened room a mirror stays,
in candlelight I catch a gaze
from mirror staring straight at me.
One moment thought: who could that be?

The candles shiver as I do,
She looks at me as if she knew
something I did not. Who is she?
From mirror comes another me.

A girl with dark wide opened eyes,
she’s silent without any smiles.
She’s watching from another time,
she hears and sees a silenced chime.

I look into the mirror’s will
another me its waves reveal.
All other me that through time strives
to help me learn my other lives.

I make a wish and write it on
a piece of paper which anon
I fold in half and light in fire,
and let it burn my heart’s desire.

Candles like not to be blown out.
Wet fingertips or with my clout
I kill their flame. I’m born again.
With all my stars I drink champagne.

 

 17.01.2015

Lanzarote

Maria Magdalena Biela

2 COMMENTS

1. garnet says:

   January 18, 2015 at 08:34

   This is she, watching
   Her portrait as she used to be,
   In the moment between
   Her gaze and the mirror

   This is she, knowing
   Me across that distant night,
   Upon those paths of light
   That traverse she and I

   This is she, Magda
   Mastered fingers spinning spheres,
   sending harmonies to ears
   Inside, beneath these stones

   This is she, list’ning
   To silent phonemes brimming sounds
   Of loves and mysteries found
   Between these hearts of ours

   This is she, fash’ning,
   With tempo, style and tone,
   Matter, meaning in the tome
   A life is in its living

   This is she, lena,
   In the garden that we share
   Our words ballet ‘pon the air,
   And tests of time endure

   Happy Birthday, Magdalena

   Garnet

2. Magda says:

   January 18, 2015 at 11:29

   This is the most treasured birthday present I have ever received. Thank you, Garnet, for everything you mean to me!