A Poem by Pearl Ketover Prilik

Whorled

 

Here you are from womb whirling to mountaintop majesty

Wandering, wondering, wondrous, laughing, slip-sliding

Infant dimple fingered hold on that slice of eternity

In the years tumble, tempest-joy-uncertain-clear trek

Always in soft certitude of the light of stars - sparkling

With a clear true flame - born under, carried within and

yours to share - from first blink of fathomless eyes

reflecting the mountaintop from where you came, from

where you now stand, all pinpointed celestial eternity behind

ahead and shimmering within you, this day, as each day

forward flooded filled with all - from first drop of sweet milk

to sting of bitter herbs upon the tongue, whirling, floating

aquamarined waters to iced-arctic whitened snowflakes

whirling from infant milestones to the crack of a bat vibrating-

beasts gentle lumbering, emotion-swirl beginnings, incomprehensible

endings rolled in burgeoning intellect -until your own

first shimmering thoughts coalesced writ- read

reflecting something beyond, yet within, familiared comfort-clear,

life-love flowing up each step of whirling, womb-walk,

footfall steadied with each tumbled year, to stand here today

on the mountaintop eyes filled fathomless deep as at that first blink at the

whirling tumbled tempested wonder of it all spread before, around

and within you in timeless kaleidoscopic shifts of endless configuration

Enjoy the journey and the unexpected vision of mountaintops without acme

Revel in strong legs to climb, clear eyes to see, and the wondered whirl writ

in unique imprimatur whorled in your infanted dimpled fingered tip reaching

from then mystic manifestation, whirling through the considered now, into

this mindful moment - breathe the clear cool air of your mountaintop of your

horizonless forever

 

 

 

(Dr.) Pearl Ketover Prilik is a freelance writer and psychoanalyst. She has had three nonfiction books published on the subject of step/parenting. PKP, as she is known in the online poetry community has written since early childhood. She continues to pursue the butterfly of the elusive satisfying novel that will evoke a collective sigh from the Universe (or a large part thereof), having had two completed novels read and passed most graciously and personally by a major publishing house. PKP has lived in the Virgin Islands, birthed one child and loved three into present adulthood, been a teacher and in a penchant for continued learning, garnered a Masters Degree in English Secondary Education and continued on to another Masters in Social Work, a doctorate in Social Welfare, with a published dissertation, and a four-year-post-doc in psychoanalysis. Daughter of an artist - she was schooled from infancy to listen and express the images that music and nature and all sorts of stimuli evoke. From early childhood, PKP wrote, journals, short stories and poetry; poetry was the primary language of her thoughts and world view. She believes that poetry most closely approximates the way in which humans think in a multi-leveled diaphanous manner rather than along the constraints of linear thought that are required for understandable speech of coherent prose. Pearl Ketover Prilik, has been writing actively on a daily basis online for the past four years; she has had poems published or accepted for publication at: Sea Giraffe, The World of Myth, Sprout Magazine, Poets For Living Waters, and has edited two international poetry collections: Prompted, An International Collection of Poems (12/2011) and Beyond The Dark Room, A International Collection of Transformative Poetry (in press late summer 2012) both of which were collective endeavors with a group of poets known to each other through the online poetic community most of whom originally met at Poetic Asides, A Writer's Digest online blog. Pearl Ketover Prilik, lives on the South Shore of LI, NY. USA with the clichéd, but nevertheless accurately described true, best-friend husband where she continues to write poetry daily, edit those waiting novels, and maintain a private practice in psychoanalysis. More poetry and other writing by PKP can be found at her blog “Imagine” http://drpkp.com