
ILA Magazine
Where Culture Meets Creativity
EDITOR'S CHOICE: MATT ELMORE
We highlight on ILA, the pen of a prolific bard and his poem, "Perceptions Beyond Derelictions" as our January 2025 Editor's Choice. PERCEPTIONS BEYOND DERELICTIONS Iced weight weighs on branches of freeze as arms stretch open to birds in the trees following impulses to do as they please priorities rest on choices made best on decisions made with reasonable precision. Clouds black out beauties rolling up on high in bleak weary windows of widowed shadows color low lonesome ugly marrows of tomorrow baste tasteless raw bone broths of sorrow as cold shivers deliver unfrozen emotive slack to slip defenses of home through hidden cracks. Windy white outs of winter obfuscate brains as shady gray slogs hint at images out of fogs made plain these outlines of mistakes remain textured in fabrics not up to the task distilling icy chills from another silent still kill ever aware of being prepared for journeys end exposed to frozen elements, about every bend. Snow globe of mistakes flaunt now white flakes wholesomely hearty with starry obstruction over chalked blackboard smear of emotions imbuing kaleidoscope hopes infused with hues suggesting progressions of thin prism truths transcending perceptions beyond derelictions. Illuminating space mocking the colorless trace of elevating tastes gracing such sensual touch setting sights on nights of sweet favored flights multiplying bright dimensions of rainbows hush no longer snow blind to such misdirected slush. © MATT ELMORE U.S.A. © Winter photo taken above by Matt Elmore
