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Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2003-05-12 05:34 PM

STORY OF A STREAM

Clean, innocent, new, a stream bubbles up
from the earth to the knowing of you
and sparkles within the diamond of youth
like love in its infancy.

From the top down a gorge between realms
runs passion uncertain, unsure,
till the land falls away, it loses hand-holds
and sinks into reality.

Sprayed into the air are hopes, wishes, dreams,
permanent there like a feeling, a thought,
not expunged by the movement of time.

In the distance an echo, a call evermore,
over mountains like thunder in pain
for truth to be kind, transparent, not lie,
and annihilate discrepancies.

Where a boulder a stone, weak, mean, insincere,
where a pebble a force unbelievably pure,
and it turns and turns in whirlpools of fear.

Pushed by necessity it allows the thirsty to drink
and still they drink while the river thinks death sooner than time’s prophecy.

It looks through the sun at what lies above
seeking a reason, a cure, for so long a journey
but wends its way through life’s twisted trail
of too much to see and much too little to know.

The young who have drunk, learnt about love,
encourage the river onward but the old stop the flow
and keep it on land away from the seabed of free –
forever it seems like paper print hands
that neither hold nor release the essence of soul
contained in a river, a stream.

Pain and there’s pain, of love there’s no love,
but the river still grows from chewing on earth
and not from the force of its own energy
static, unseen, in reality.

The sea, the sea, an impossible dream,
how long can it wait for a river, a stream?

© Helen / May 2003

QjQ
Member Elite

since 2003-04-18

Posts 3756
U.S.A.

1 posted 2003-05-12 06:07 PM

very touching write!!!

It matters not how you answer, It matters only that i hear you.

icebox
Member Elite

since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

2 posted 2003-05-12 06:16 PM

Very nicely interwoven imagery. Very enjoyable. Thank you for sharing it.

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

3 posted 2003-05-12 06:27 PM

Very nice...James

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

4 posted 2003-05-13 12:52 PM

Thank you QjQ, Icebox, and JamesM, for reading and commenting. How wonderful the stream of life that gathers, discards, and retains to last only the good memories!

Justbleu
Member Elite

since 1999-08-31

Posts 3329
Oregon, Originally From Alaska :)

5 posted 2003-05-13 09:12 AM

A very wonderful write....
Enjoyed!!!!
Bridgette

"Somewhere, somehow, it should be possible to touch someone and never let go again. To hold someone, not for a moment but forever." Unknown

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

6 posted 2003-05-13 10:49 AM

Thank you very much, Bridgette. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

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