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Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2011-04-22 05:01 AM


Morning breaks the spell of past
with fists like lightning bolts
piercing through the mood
of a dark and sombre mind.

Birds and butterflies and me
fly in conscious formation
round and round and round again
the strength of one to overcome.

Willing now to be released
mind welcomes in the draft
cool and soft; a mother's kiss
on the forehead of a child.

Thus released and free
and glory be the feel
that loosens sides and bottom, top,
of compressed despondency.

And as the overcoming gels
and hardens into good self-love
there's yet a spot for lightning bolts
to break it into … loving me.

Another day has dawned
on all those dawned before
but of the round and round again
what of, what of, the round again?

Helen / 22 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 2011-04-22 09:03 AM


The round again? You find the silver lining as always  
Lori

easy1
Senior Member
since 2010-05-22
Posts 1209
Southeastern USA
2 posted 2011-04-22 11:05 AM


Lovely rhythms you pen here, and a lovely expression of the waking process, and how the Earth does turn!

JerryPat2
Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975
South Louisiana
3 posted 2011-04-22 11:05 AM


Hah! The round is the you in the summertime. It is you bundled up against the cold and catching snowflakes with your tongue. The round is you sitting flat on the ground turning dirt for the springing of flowers and veggies. And finally, round is you as you put away your summertime fun and "fall" into getting ready for the winter's blast that makes you feel more alive than all the rest.

'Er sumtin' lak dat.

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

BluesSerenade
Member Patricius
since 2001-10-23
Posts 10549
By the Seaside
4 posted 2011-04-22 02:43 PM


The cycle of life is fascinating even in it's repetition.  I gotta believe the circles connect for a reason.

Like the song goes,

"yesterday a child came out to wonder
caught a dragonfly inside a jar
fearful when the sky was full of thunder
and tearful at the falling of a star"

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115
South Africa
5 posted 2011-04-22 02:51 PM


Thanks everyone for your comments.  I think my stories are getting too complicated - it's not actually about me but rather what one does (perhaps in another realm) for another and then the question - would they do it again and again.  Something like that.  

Helen

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