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

0 posted 2011-04-19 04:44 AM


There's nothing twixt the air and land
and so I stay quite unaware
and though the clouds purport to be
something solid, tangible,
I know they're simply wake-up calls
calling, calling, calling,
"Look up, look up, look at me".

Perhaps they're vain and simply are
in need of my admiring stare
but perhaps they're like an opening
into what lies beyond.

They disappear sometimes to be
cheerleaders on the side-lines
but no participants appear
and of spectators there are none.

So the beyond remains alone
saddened by my absence
and builds up tension deep within
the sphere of immortal love.

I cry sometimes for that beyond
and I cry for me
unwilling now to ere believe
but I hear them still;
they sing to me
of hope's sure company.  

I can close my eyes, not look above,
can still the hope within
but I can't and simply cannot
ever close my ears!

Helen / 19 April 2011


© Copyright 2011 Helen - All Rights Reserved
Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere
1 posted 2011-04-19 08:30 AM


There you go again with your style that I have come to enjoy so much!. Clouds! I love it!
Lori

JerryPat2
Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975
South Louisiana
2 posted 2011-04-19 08:56 AM


Dissecting clouds and doing it in a most enjoyable way, even if there are moments of awkwardness -- not of your delightful poem -- but from the clouds themselves. They, like their human counterpart, are fickle on any given day.  

~ Don't insult the alligator till after you cross the river. ~

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115
South Africa
3 posted 2011-04-19 03:39 PM


Thanks, Lori and Jerry.  Yes, the fickleness of man - no getting away from it.

Helen

Margherita
Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236
Eternity
4 posted 2011-04-20 07:27 AM


Interesting visions, dear Helen. I do enjoy your way of pondering love.

LOVE IS. Immortal, yes. No one but you can put limits to it.

In the beyond there is no sadness, everything flows in blissful awareness that love wraps us and keeps us warm, forever.

Love and hugs.
Margherita

Honeybunch
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since 2001-12-29
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5 posted 2011-04-20 02:42 PM


Thank you, Margherita.  I always enjoy and am comforted by your comments.


Helen

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California
6 posted 2011-04-22 08:22 PM


Yes, I think poets have a special connection with "the beyond," Helen. Obviously, you do.
                           Ida

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115
South Africa
7 posted 2011-04-23 03:57 AM


Yes, Ida, I think you're right and considering how different our interpretations are of that  "beyond" it sort of proves that ... as in heaven so on earth. Something like that.  

Helen

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