DDCPoetry

Original poem reprinted online here: "Absences" by Dom Moraes Originally read: April 17, 2013 More information about the Poet: Dom Moraes Past me wrote this about the line, "Smear out the last star,"  "Strong opening line that's expansive and has an edge of epicness."  Yes, Epicness! No not really.  The poem plays on the idea of what it means to be "epic" in a sense.  In every epic tale ranging from Odysseus to Ulysses -- the conflict has to come to the forefront; however, this poem deals more of the aftermath of the conflict. The first stanza hints at where the direction the "post-epic" is going with the line, "The prolonged vowel of silence / makes itself plainly heard"  and, see, how the line break turns the noiseless into a noise and is followed through with something plainly heard and then transitions to the visual with "the ghost of a headland."  The transition to the silent to the heard regardless of heari...