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Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2010-10-09 04:32 AM


Free and flying singing birds
rise and dip like dolphins do
and it matters not the air or sea
commonality abides.

‘tis just the land that draws a line
between your needs and mine
and maims or kills the spirit
of the perceived “not me”.

And it’s into that damn awful mix
that love must come to heal the sick
and raise from out those killing fields
the attackers and the dead?

But I think of love it’s just a “thing”
that sits on sidelines of the fray
waiting for each one to be
conscious of its awesome feel.

Love’s not “pushy” like you are
and toothless it can’t bite the hand
that feeds it garbage from the can
of egos wrapped it selfishness.

Yet in the breath of living things
love’s silent hope beds down
and it knows to be half comatose
until the wake up call.

Tread carefully lest you wake it up
before the time is right
for somehow it’s like you and me
unproductive without sleep.

Love needs to sleep and breathe in deep
yet still perceived as a “not me”!

Helen / 9 October 2010

© Copyright 2010 Helen - All Rights Reserved
Yuka
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since 2010-08-19
Posts 71
china
1 posted 2010-10-13 02:15 AM


why i saw so many strange characters like chinese character showed on this post?
Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115
South Africa
2 posted 2010-10-13 02:40 AM


Most people think that if you can't see something then you don't know it.  I'm afraid that applies in this instance because I don't see any Chinese characters - sorry.

Helen

latearrival
Member Ascendant
since 2003-03-21
Posts 5499
Florida
3 posted 2010-10-13 02:48 AM


It seems it takes a while before some see the huge "I" in the way. When that shrinks maybe they willn see further from the "me",  and give a little more.  jo
Yuka
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since 2010-08-19
Posts 71
china
4 posted 2010-10-13 03:51 AM


perhaps that's the problem of my computer IE
cause i saw many unrecognizable characters look like chinese character but obviously not

s1nfully_1nn0c3nt
Senior Member
since 2003-10-26
Posts 1105
Watertown, NY
5 posted 2010-10-13 06:33 AM


chinese characters?
*thinks to herself "You're going off topic"*
oh, no -Not Me. Enjoyed this.

-Trina.

There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be - LeonBloy

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115
South Africa
6 posted 2010-10-13 02:14 PM


  I guess we all look at life differently but isn't it great that now we can blame computers?  Chinese characters - a hidden code or a world take over?  Such is the mystery of life!  

Helen

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