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Honeybunch
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since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2010-04-23 04:18 AM

It’s just an ordinary thing
but no standard weight and measure
to fit within the cabinet
of a lifetime’s memories.

It doesn’t have a brand name
according to my history
or a pseudonym to indicate
its not how it appears
and, in fact, it’s simply blank
like a page before a poet
has begun the connect.

It’s heavy in uniqueness
and soft beyond the crust,
like a pillar then a mouse
in corners scared, afraid,
and it is square but rounded,
fickle yet dependable,
and altogether strange
in the context of the known.

If I squash it into past
it falls down on the floor
and trips-up forward movement
oh, so happily.

If I keep it in the present
there’s no room for other things
and if I throw it into future
it will die before I’m there
and so I think it must be love
that doesn’t fit the keeper.

It can’t be sold and so must go
the way of fat/thin clothes
straight and determinedly
into the hands of … charity!

Helen / 23 April 2010

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

1 posted 2010-04-23 10:12 AM

I don't like hoarders

good way to go! Charity is best.

Robert E. Jordan
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since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2 posted 2010-04-23 01:06 PM

Yo dear Honeybunch,

There are a number of different thoughts in your poem.

Love Bobby

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

3 posted 2010-04-23 02:10 PM

Thanks, Dixie. Some things one has just got to throw out but always and forever it's in the timing.

Bobby - Hi. Things like poetry are not what they seem. Always something more but never anything less. Thanks for the read.

OldBuddyOldPal
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since 2008-12-15

Posts 87

4 posted 2010-04-23 04:57 PM

Things like poetry are not what they seem. Always something more but never anything less.

...excellent thought

steavenr
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since 2003-11-17

Posts 4058

5 posted 2010-04-23 11:34 PM

love in the hands of charity? ...now that's a novel thought

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

6 posted 2010-04-24 01:25 AM

Thanks, OBOP, and Steaven!

"The greatest of these is charity" and then (because everything changes) "the greatest of these is love". Maybe the earlier edition of bible was right?

Helen

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

7 posted 2010-04-24 04:28 PM

Hi Helen...Letting go isn't always easy...loved this!

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

8 posted 2010-04-25 12:21 PM

Thanks, Martie. Good to see you here.

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