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Honeybunch
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0 posted 2007-07-22 07:13 AM


A state of bliss prevails, so the sages say,
when two minds perform as one
but, ha-ha-ha, the joker, life,
twists truth into a knot
and drapes the dangling bits and bobs
over one minuscule part
of who we are inside.  

Thus I walk as one unique
comfortable in what’s been taught
until the knot deemed safe, secure,
loosens bit by bit
and mixes up my mind with yours
and mine with mine besides.

So then of this conglomerate,
the still waters of a mind,
how does it feel to be denied
and thought as nought inside?

Let me tell you it’s a fickle thing
like that joker, life, itself
from sway and ripple softly so
to raging floods inside
that tips the sane and sanest
into a loving mind.

Love me tender, love me fierce,
but sages say no peace prevails  
when shrouded head to toe
in only the meaningless
dangling bits and bobs!

Helen / 22 July 2007


© Copyright 2007 Helen - All Rights Reserved
Midnitesun
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1 posted 2007-07-22 08:46 AM


Oh my, this aches of reality's cruel moments, when two who are as one begin to unravel at the seams.
But it ended in a fine write!

Honeybunch
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2 posted 2007-07-22 10:51 AM


Hi Midnitesun (love that username by the way) - more likely the one that is as two is coming undone because the rarity of two being as one perhaps can never truly come undone.  My shoelaces unravel though but that's just a "ghost" telling me that I'm not going anywhere so I don't need shoes.  
passing shadows
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3 posted 2007-07-22 09:13 PM


always a treasure, your poems

glad they are here within the blue sea

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
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4 posted 2007-07-23 12:22 PM


Thanks so much, Dixie.  I love "the blue" whether it be sea, sky, or pages!  
WindWalker
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5 posted 2007-09-27 07:34 PM


Yes, I must agree, your poems are always a treasure!!!!!!!!!!!!
JL
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6 posted 2007-09-28 03:27 PM


"So then of this conglomerate,
the still waters of a mind,
how does it feel to be denied
and thought as nought inside?"

But we have hope.
We must have hope.

JL

Blessed are those who are generous, because they feed the poor.
~Proverbs 22:9 NLT

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