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Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2011-01-13 02:45 PM

Mind keeps the heart in safety mode
and holds the reins just so
to ensure a world not understood
can't pass on the blind side.

This mind, this mind, this deepest mind,
incites the heart to wrap, pack, shift,
but heart mourns the once-up-a-time
when mind caused not a ripple.

The way forward then did not exist;
heart was settled, quiet, still,
and there was nought for mind to do
but imagine more and sketch, doodle.

And so in time it came to pass
that all mind's pictures came alive
and presented to a baffled heart
a course beset with obstacles.

Heart braved the valleys, mountains, dales;
there is no death and yet it died
each time it fell, each time it cried,
and each and every time you lied.

But mind, this mind, this deepest mind,
still holds the reins and blocks a pass
so heart can safely wrap, pack, shift,
from … one doodle to the next!

Helen / 13 January 2011

JerryPat
Senior Member

since 2010-10-30

Posts 1991
Louisiana/America

1 posted 2011-01-13 03:25 PM

The mind working as pass interference has been brilliant in the backfield of the heart thwarting half-thrown passes. Nipped in the bud and spiked into the AstroTurf of of the Superdome of Incomplete Passes foils yet again the attack on the wounded heart.

Good work, Helen.

"Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave let him know he has enough."-Robert Goolrick from "Reliable Wife"

[This message has been edited by JerryPat (01-13-2011 05:12 PM).]

faithmairee
Senior Member

since 2011-01-05

Posts 1441
Poe Haven, USA

2 posted 2011-01-13 03:47 PM

this is really deep and i like it...nice work!

There must be a poem in here somewhere.

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

3 posted 2011-01-16 02:35 AM

Your poems are always deep and full of food for thought, Helen. Just my cup of tea.
Ida

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

4 posted 2011-01-16 02:44 AM

Thanks everyone! I hope you all read "once-upon-a-time" and not "once-up-a-time". Not going to worry anyone to change it now but I do apologize for the typo.

Helen

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