Grey sky in descent (because it's Sunday)

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Open Poetry #36

Grey sky in descent (because it's Sunday)

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2005-07-31 02:38 AM

Grey sky in descent; a force heaven sent
to stretch the outreach of grief
and widen the gap between the lines
of love’s most ardent desire
but no one signs better the song of denial
than he who has been a lover in love
and touched the mystical blue of review.

Thunder alive yet so long asleep
disempowered because of unawareness
rumbles this night in the wilderness
of dreams turned into nightmares …
and I hear the tone deep in my soul.

Of lightening it hides somewhere on the side
not strong enough yet to streak
and cramped is the style of one who would fly
but the sky remains grey and rules tonight
with the hand of an evil dictator.

The element, time, eternally mine
in spirals twists forward and on
and there in the slipstream a truant mind
with the groping hands of the blind
ferrets amidst life’s meager rewards
for tidbits and scraps of compassion
to banish all grey from the sky.

Grey sky in descent; does heaven portend
what is past or still yet to come?

Helen / 31 July 2005

Martie

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Member Empyrean

since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

1 posted 2005-07-31 11:52 AM

Helen

"Thunder alive yet so long asleep
disempowered because of unawareness
rumbles this night in the wilderness
of dreams turned into nightmares …
and I hear the tone deep in my soul."

At midnight last, I heard thunder just like this, with no lightning. It was strange, like fireworks, but not. As for your question, I think each person builds their own answers from within. The heavens only applaud or growl.

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