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LeeJ
Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296


0 posted 2008-04-10 01:58 PM



most of the time I do fly
don’t know why, I just do
finding so much literature in nature
illustrative lessons and
plans of teachings
working no immediate transformation
but…
lately nature’s verse has
been changing tastes of circumstances
like rolling naked in morning dew
I should be flying, but can’t get off
the ground…

where is sudden brilliant imagination?
That so well knew me as a child
that which the years had given me so freely
my verse seems darkly discolored
shades of grays, browns
yet, natures astonishing productivity
sill beckons me, hautingly
“come, come away, fly with me again”
Oh God, how I long to
but see cancer everywhere
and hide, because the family isn’t there….

Perhaps….
the lasik treatments are failing?
is there any difference in this place
          of cynical detachment?
you bet
it merges with human identity
causing
spiritual collapse
psychoanalysis where temperatures
           & humidity rises to fall
again…and again

I am sorry perception grew over my efforts
wild creatures travel through the dark
animals regularly finish my sentences
I focus harder to be concise, so nobody can tell
aging floats face down
scattered to the wind

write, and fly, mostly on logic and common sense
my moral universe is no longer his
but he still has memory of paint,
the womb of cherry blossoms, remembers

I occupy this place
building intimacy
with that far horizon,
look! There, can you see it!

and fear nothing
but the woman who has taken my voice
I look away, and hope,
ridding self of assumption
we kept each other alive
with those little hands of stories
and those celtic songs of waining…

engraving spiritual arts
richly hued journeys
though,
I know,
to fly on to that immense power
of place,
to that primal energy of azure oceans

family is there, as was before
just can’t help but turn blue, from the time
we’ve lost….

Ohhhh, I know he’s far from perfect
and I continue to yell out the small
crack in the window
we are merely passers through
someday, while flying,
wheat fields will sway
green fingers, reaching out to
this engraved bare wood
I leave behind

He is hurting to…

© Copyright 2008 Lee J. - All Rights Reserved
serenity blaze
Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738

1 posted 2008-04-10 02:07 PM


"and fear nothing
but the woman who has taken my voice"

Nodding here, with less vigor than I usedta, 'cause it hurts sometimes.

But this line leapt out at me, as it's the one to which I can most relate.

I had the same startling realization after I thought, "I wouldn't want to fight me"--and then I realized I'd been doing precisely that my entire life.

So me and Karen have an uneasy truce goin' on.

Feel better soon...this too, can pass.

I've missed you darlin. With hugs for the pain of it all.

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115
South Africa
2 posted 2008-04-11 04:46 PM


LeeJ - I haven't been here much owing to computer problems but am so glad to find you here now.  You always take the reader on amazing journeys ... when you fly because you do fly, you know.  I do hope all is well with you.  I'm also on the verge of a new beginning so here's to "us"!

Love
Helen

Margherita
Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236
Eternity
3 posted 2008-04-12 04:58 AM


engraving spiritual arts
richly hued journeys
though,
I know,
to fly on to that immense power
of place,
to that primal energy of azure oceans


Dear LeeJ, good to see you back, write your shadows and your light always please. You offer exceptional poetic gifts here.

((((LeeJ))))
You are beautiful!

Love and hugs.
Margherita

Larrysmom
Senior Member
since 2008-04-03
Posts 533
Florida, USA
4 posted 2008-04-12 07:09 PM


Wow! This is pure poetry... so beautiful yet makes me feel sad. Gorgeous writing.

Tammy<333

NeonKnight
Junior Member
since 2008-04-12
Posts 36
New South Wales, Australia
5 posted 2008-04-12 07:38 PM


This is a very beautiful and very powerful poem, it was a pleasure to read though a little sad.
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