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OwlSA
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0 posted 2011-08-19 12:42 PM



SOMETIMES, WHAT SEEMED
18 August 2011

Sometimes,
what seemed
impossible
to change . . .
does . . .

and a miracle
blossoms . . .

and there is a lifting of
a heavy wooden yoke,
and
slowly
oh, so slowly,
the neck
eases into position
and the eyes
look upward
and fly
with the wings of a bird,
up, up, up,
cleaving the blue air
cleanly

and waves
of warmth
and light
open the mind
to possibilities
and the heart
to giving
and the spirit
to praying
and the body
to dancing
and, like Mozart-caresses on the ear,
the comforting sense of well-being
swells into
joy and happiness
that could
last forever.

Owl

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Marchmadness
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1 posted 2011-08-19 02:10 PM


Sounds like something has made you very happy, Diana, I'm happy for you.
                           Ida

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2 posted 2011-08-19 03:41 PM


From miracles, hope is born, nurtured, celebrated. This seems like an embrace of joy!
ebonygirl
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3 posted 2011-08-19 04:49 PM


I felt lots of joy and happiness in your poem Ms. Owl,
Enjoyed,
Ms. E

Margherita
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4 posted 2011-08-19 06:15 PM


You describe the alleviation of a heaviness in the heart in a splendid way, dear Diana. There is no such thing as impossible in our lives. When a change induces you to dance then you have the measure of its positive significance.

Dance on, dear Poetess.

Love,
Margherita

"Love is the One who masters all things;
I am mastered totally by Love."
(Rumi)

Prasad Nataraj
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5 posted 2011-08-20 04:56 AM


Fine writing.

"The secret behind survival of mankind is kindness and love within our hearts"

OwlSA
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Durban, South Africa
6 posted 2011-08-21 03:48 AM


Thank you, Ida.  No, not really a happening – more a wide-spread, multi-faceted awakening, a realisation that we allow ourselves to be limited by our own pre-conceived limitations without challenging them.  A new liberating realisation always exhilarates me.  

Thank you, Ruth.  I read what you wrote recently in a reply to somebody’s poem – I forget whose – you said something like having heard it said that we pray for miracles and when they arrive, we call them co-incidences – a profound thought which I enjoyed and have since ruminated on.  It may well have had an influence on this poem, though there were several other influences on it too.

Thank you eg.  There is so much happiness and joy that we can find for ourselves and I have no intention on missing out on any of it.

Thank you, Margherita.  Sometimes the change is within us, sometimes outside of us, but the excitement is to recognise it wherever it is and investigate it, embrace it and follow it with awareness and a natural healthy caution.  To me, dancing – whether literal or metaphorical - is a wonderful, spontaneous, artistic, outward expression of all sorts of emotions, joy, being one of them.  Yes, Margherita, I will always dance on.  Smiles.

Thank you, Prasad.  I am glad you enjoyed it.

Owl

JL
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7 posted 2011-08-22 06:02 PM


Such a beautiful poem you have penned!!
Truly heartfelt.


JL


OwlSA
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8 posted 2011-08-22 06:36 PM


Thank you, JL.  I am glad it touched you so deeply.  There are so many wonderful truths to discover every day - Robert Louis Stevenson in one of his poems to children said:

The world is full of such wonderful things
I am sure we should all be as happy as kings.

Not that I would imagine kings have much to be happy about - but I delight in the way he brought out the magical, innocent concept of kings that children have.

Owl

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