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OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

0 posted 2012-09-10 04:38 AM

CHILD OF THE WIND
9 September 2012

The softly rushing wind tonight,
in crescendos and diminuendos
and ponder-pauses,
recalls the tales it whispered to me
so long ago, so very long ago,
when as a child, I lay in bed
and listened, breathless,
in the living darkness,
feeling the wind’s excitement,
silently singing in harmony with it,
longing somewhere in my soul
to share its wild and stormy story
with its passionate joys and sorrows
to any who would understand,
but too young
to know I did,
or how to paint it into
a poem on paper,
and so I kept it secret,
deep in a corner of my being
for all these years,
to spill out
tonight
in wild abandon,
in these sparse words.

Owl

Spiros Zafiris
Senior Member

since 2002-10-20

Posts 982
Canada

1 posted 2012-09-10 11:55 PM

..lovely poem Owl..unwinds like a Dickens novel and more..

..spiros
~~

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

2 posted 2012-09-11 01:51 AM

Thank you, Spiros, for your beautiful reply. I am honoured to be compared to Dickens. Smiles.

Owl

BluesSerenade
Member Patricius

since 2001-10-23

Posts 10549
By the Seaside

3 posted 2012-09-11 12:35 PM

Your poem is a pensive one and gives me much to ponder.
The feelings you evoke are lovely and bring to mind some very meaningful turn of events in my life.

Wonderful work, Lady OWL~

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

4 posted 2012-09-11 01:14 PM

Thank you, Blues, for your lovely words. It makes me very happy that my poem brought you such meaningful, nostalgic and hopefully happy pondering. Smiles.

Owl

jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

5 posted 2012-09-11 03:09 PM

Thankfully you let it spill out, my friend, to the benefit and pleasure of all your readers.

Enjoyed ... and I did explain "Da" as you requested in "Beauty Rests ..."

j.

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

6 posted 2012-09-11 03:24 PM

Thank you for your sweet reply, Jimmy. Yes, I saw your explanation of Da on "Beauty Rests" and replied.

Owl

jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

7 posted 2012-09-11 03:40 PM

Coming back into this, I read it again (3rd time) and really like this part very much...
..."how to paint it into
a poem on paper,
and so I kept it secret,
deep in a corner of my being
for all these years,
to spill out
tonight
in wild abandon,
in these sparse words."

Just wonderful!

Try that picture of Ryleigh now...

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

8 posted 2012-09-11 03:56 PM

Thank you, Jimmy. I am glad you like that part so much.

I read this, then went into "Beauty Rests" and have left a reply there, and have come back here to reply to your last reply. Thank you, again.

Owl

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

9 posted 2012-09-15 01:36 PM

A wonderful poem I relate to so well, Diana.
Ida

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

10 posted 2012-09-15 02:01 PM

Thank you, Ida. I am glad you do. Smiles.

Owl

Startime1955
Senior Member

since 2012-04-22

Posts 1072
Alberta, Canada

11 posted 2012-09-15 04:42 PM

*sigh*...I felt this poem deeply...I too love the wind...it talks to my soul...I get lost in it...this poem is perfect and I love it...*BIG HUGS*

*may our dreams ever be magical*

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

12 posted 2012-09-15 06:02 PM

Thank you, Startime.

Owl

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

13 posted 2012-09-17 03:34 PM

The softly rushing wind tonight,
in crescendos and diminuendos
and ponder-pauses,
recalls the tales it whispered to me
so long ago, so very long ago,
when as a child, I lay in bed
and listened, breathless,

How incredibly beautiful! You make me very glad for years-later spillings. *S*

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

14 posted 2012-09-25 03:30 PM

I don't know how I missed seeing your reply, Ruth. Thank you. I am glad you enjoyed it. Smiles.

Owl

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