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WindWalker
Senior Member

since 2001-10-12

Posts 1218

0 posted 2007-07-28 09:28 PM

I run on the edge of a sea
having more faces than grains of sand
bordering shores, hemming waves.
Do I know where I'm running to?
Running from?
a part of me wants to kneel
a part of me wants to cry
a part of me wants to laugh
a part of me says:
"I've left footprints here before!"

Listen to that wise old part;
born with a million faces!
It doesn't matter (she says)
it doesn't matter at all
what you believe - or that you run
from here to there;  nowhere to nowhere
for you are still now here.

What matters:
Can you feel the fingers of wind
combing your hair; massaging your skin?
Touch clouds mixed in sky
and walk through the fires of earth?
Can you see gulls rising, floating
on nothing but wind?
              Understand?

Perhaps it is still all too much...
perhaps another day, another way:
don't worry, I have endless days;
endless ways
neither of us is going any
    where.

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

1 posted 2007-07-28 09:47 PM

another fine ‘write’!

(especially as a ‘natural scientist’;
and, perhaps because I did a
seaside theme tonight as well)...

I am grandly fond of:

“I run on the edge of a sea
having more faces than grains of sand
bordering shores, hemming waves…”;

“Can you feel the fingers of wind
combing your hair; massaging your skin?
Touch clouds mixed in sky
and walk through the fires of earth?”

sustained applause!

Berenice
Junior Member

since 2007-07-18

Posts 18

2 posted 2007-07-29 01:12 AM

very nice. enjoyed the read.

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

3 posted 2007-12-20 09:42 PM

This beautiful poem deserves another go, so I'm bringing it back to the top.
Ida

PoetsPlay
Member

since 2007-12-22

Posts 56
California

4 posted 2007-12-22 08:34 AM

Very nice! I especially liked "Can you feel the fingers of wind
Combing your hair;massaging your skin..."

Alexandra

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

5 posted 2007-12-22 08:40 AM

"What matters:
Can you feel the fingers of wind
combing your hair; massaging your skin?"

WOW!!! I was on vacation when you wrote this last summer, and never read it 'till now. What a superb write, WW! You touch the essence of 'forever' with this one.
Into my library......

Artic Wind
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 8080
Realm of Supernatural

6 posted 2007-12-22 10:30 AM

I saw this after I am came back from a little run LOL

MERRY CHRISTMAS !

ARCTIC WIND

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