Glass Half Full

WHAT WORKS.
When I deliver my heart to a place that
Occupies tomorrow
Seething whispers stick tenaciously
Like corn silk to the husk
Like milk crusted to the glass
Of half full
Of course,
Of course half full!
I am sipping the hope
Full of hope
My Lashes touching the cheek
That gives me depth and focus
For…
I am worthy of love

BREATHING MOMENTS
Surety
Untamed lips
Believing in me
And that all things are
Thru
A funnel of contrast it’s true.

I am being delivered again
To a new age
To a beginning that calls in me
My own mystery.
My own not Knowing
Laced with just knowing
Where my hands will touch that
Skin
Like a smooth snake of destiny
Slithering my wet dreams
Of finding a part of me that needs
To be.
A part that develops right before my
Eyes.
Of the letting go
Of everything this time
The drama, which
Closes its own curtain
From silent movies
To subtle endings
With no sense for the end
Just a moment in time
Which took too long to film

(I think it is because
The actors liked their roles).

Linaji 2009

  • H M Bascom

    H M Bascom

    Half full is a long way from empty! Excellent writing linaji!

  • linaji replied

    Hi Helen.. thanks so much!!

  • Ushna Sardar

    Ushna Sardar

    being optimistic would say “less is more”!! excellent read lina! huggles

  • linaji replied

    you are right Ushna!! xoxox

  • ambient-1

    ambient-1

    Wow! This is amazing! I agree with Helen. Excellent writing Lina!

  • linaji replied

    thank you …appreciate your comment!

  • Isa Rodriguez

    Isa Rodriguez

    That gives me depth and focus
    For…
    I am worthy of love

    yep!!.
    anything from you is filed!.. lol!.. rockon lady !

  • linaji replied

    tee hee.. Isa.. you got a real way with words.. thanks so much!

  • Erika .

    Erika .

    Forget half-full, this is just overflowing...haha! Amazing writing Lina! XX

  • linaji replied

    wow Erika.. that was so nice. xox

  • Tom Broderick IPA

    Tom Broderick IPA

    nice work lina. tom

  • linaji replied

    thanks so much tom.

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  • Rhenastarr

    Rhenastarr

    Wonderful read, beautiful lines!!!

  • linaji replied

    Rhenastarr.. thanks so much!!

  • Vasile Stan

    Vasile Stan

    Obviously you are waiting…
    for the needle that shows Full tank.

    Just wait!
    I’ll be back.

  • linaji replied

    V… you are impossible!

  • Vasile Stan

    Vasile Stan

    This is quite possible!

  • Linda Ridpath

    Linda Ridpath

    optimistic and full of life xx

  • linaji replied

    All in blue Linda.. xox

  • Tom Broderick IPA

    Tom Broderick IPA

    think i love you as your to cool . tom

  • gretchen .

    gretchen .

    perfect. i often wonder how many of the actors actually enjoy the role… xo

  • linaji replied

    I seem to have wanted a second bow today.. it is tough for me Gretchen.. full no.. not so full of what I would like my life to be full of.. you know those movies.. the ones that have no ending.. a slice of life.. it is up to you to fill in the gaps or not.. sometimes I feel my life lately like this.. no fucking happy ending here….
    it was after reading some of your works that this was inspired from.. I still have a piece I am working on from all that you can do to me in your moments prose.. each moment.. you write the nuance of non ending and foggy beginnings.. and all that happens within these moments seems to be how your subjects always notice how nice it would be if ‘they’ would just see…. what they themselves see and feel.. like do you feel this breath slightly on your skin.. and all the power of my love behind it?? Can’t you just feel that?? I may be so off.. but for some reason your work is an art on my Heart.. heART.. xoxo

    ..’ breathing moments.. a part that develops right before my eyes..

  • Leon  Walker

    Leon Walker

    I don’t know that they enjoy their roles in many cases… Most figure that out too late… Great piece!!!

  • Keith Reesor

    Keith Reesor

    There’s nothing wrong with half-empty. All that extra room for new thoughts, ideas, loves, wants, desires, wishes to fill one’s self!! Wonderful writing Linaji!! :)

  • calves

    calves

    Wonderful writing Lina!!!...:)

  • RosaCobos

    RosaCobos

    And then…the old tenant of the ancient building
    asked the traveller of uncountable roads….
    !Hey, you…. can you tell me which is the dark object of your desire…?”
    And the traveller, looked at his hands, croocked and dumb by too dragging heavy luggages along hard pathways…
    And the traveller, looked at this feet, deformed and calloused, bonny and unefficient now.
    And the traveller, looked at his belly, empty of food, but full of emptyness.
    And the traveller, rushed for mirror, and when got it.. looked at his eyes…
    and looked with stern, with a frantic searching, for another image,
    and just could se his own, quivering like under a candle light…
    “I…I… mumbled…am not.. dark. My desires… rolling stones…My real voice unfound…
    Love cannot be a desire. Life cannot be, though. Soul is all that cringes for what I think I have not . I am…..I am bound. I am … so.!
    Rosa (a hug for you..little talking for a while)

  • Gregory John O'Flaherty

    Gregory John O...

    Nice, beautiful piece linaji !!! Awaiting and anticipating the glass to be refilled by tomorrow while still savoiring the taste of yesterdays half full glass…... that’s what I got from it…

  • Vasile Stan

    Vasile Stan

    “I am being delivered again
    To a new age… “

    ...OK, the package arrived tonight, at 1:30am sharp, Toronto time. I did not open it yet, but smells like the sea breeze in the morning… wait, I also feel the the unmistakable still fresh aroma of the “cup of Joe” someone had yesterday morning. Whatever inside must be super good and it already raised my level curiosity quite high…

    You know what, although I feel very tempted, I think I’m going to open it tomorrow morning when the sun’s up… and I’ll keep you posted what I found inside the strange shaped package…

    Yours, New Age Kunda

  • linaji replied

    Hi N.A. Kunda…. you are so great.. do keep me posted.. .. that package is indeed a strange shaped one full of surprises!

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