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

0 posted 2010-07-29 06:17 PM


The point of the matter a will-o’-the-wisp
to disappear like dew in the day
and take to the trails of fanciful schemes
laid like a road towards definite goals.

I left at seven suitably armed  
to restrain that point of the matter
but it wiggled and squirmed out of my grasp
and got lost in the forest of dreams.

And in that forest of numerous dreams
there’s no place for practical matters
and for a time I thought maybe to be
a sidekick to all possibilities.

I dozed in the shade of how life could be
if dreams met on the road towards goals
and walked hand in hand like lovers
to find that proverbial pot of gold.

I awoke with a start; how time deceives
one who projects into lifetimes not yet
and I saw the dew again creeping in
to overlay the point of the matter.

And so the actual point of the matter
too fleeting to make an impression
bemoans its fate time, time again,
like a beautiful woman ignored!

Helen / 30 July 2010


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easy1
Senior Member
since 2010-05-22
Posts 1209
Southeastern USA
1 posted 2010-07-30 12:59 PM


LOL - nice. Like a beautiful woman... or a vain man.

Oh, going quixotic is fine, but the payments afterwards are sometimes not so divine. (Or at least a little hard to understand and to endure.)

I am guessing that many poets know a little about that. Thank you for an excellent write.

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115
South Africa
2 posted 2010-07-30 04:37 PM


Thanks, easy1.  You are so right about going quixotic.  I wish my son would know what we both know about the payment required.  Balance should be easy to achieve but for some so very difficult.

Helen

LeeJ
Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296

3 posted 2010-08-01 11:27 AM


wonderful...and life's lessons portrayed so well here..it's not always about our dreams, and when they are shattered, we so become disallusioned, however, to realize "that just the way it was meant to be", helps us so progress....

Love
Lee J.

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115
South Africa
4 posted 2010-08-01 03:44 PM


Thanks LeeJ.  Yes, I do believe things are the way they have to be but I also believe they can be changed.  Sadly, however, the way we'd change them is not the same way others would change them so sometimes it's just a case of sitting back and watching - hard to do that sometime.

Love
Helen

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