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

0 posted 2007-03-04 11:45 AM


In buckets the trouble carted and hauled
lands full in my lap from any old place
as if it had soul and entwined with my own
to bring down the drapes on a settled state.

He said and I said change walks in the door
but sometimes it stands way, way, over there
lost in the fullness of time’s many wiles
like a babe nestled in a new mother’s arms.

Hark and herald the lo and behold
of a dream envisaged as if it was real
and walk, damn it, fly the many miles
to the ends of the earth carrying the can.

A bucket, this bucket, a plain metal can
a ne’er do good holder of negative vibes
spills to the floor and tumbles through doors
when love, my love, turns cartwheels and more.

See him there in emotional motion
flattening the grass, sticks, weeds, and roses
for always new stuff grows from a turn
and entices more than ere thought before.

But sigh, shame, cry, too scared to try
and the bucket sits so in the middle of soul!

Helen / 4 March 2007


© Copyright 2007 Helen - All Rights Reserved
WindWalker
Senior Member
since 2001-10-12
Posts 1218

1 posted 2007-04-24 02:08 AM


I like your thoughts in this one!
Drauntz
Member Elite
since 2007-03-16
Posts 2905
Los Angeles California
2 posted 2007-04-24 12:41 PM


what a wonderful, clever one. oh, The bucket can't hold the meaning of its own. very clever.
stand on either end is useful but when it rolls, all the trouble comes.
so clever!!!!

enjoyed so much!!!!

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